November 2007 Archives

Infrant + SSH

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Finally, Infrant has updated its firmware to include support for SSH. Sadly it wasn't the kind of support I was hoping for. You can enable root access and shell in for various tasks. But you cannot, via the web interface, initiate backups over scp or simply rsync over ssh from the Infrant server, from what I can tell.

Yet another beta of feed2torrent. Overcomes some recent changes to the item titles of some popular torrent feeds. Should be all better now.

Java Object Graphs

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Have started using JgraphT on my latest project and am excited to report that I really like it. It allows me to build directed (and undirected) graphs of my own class instances without changing my code. Plus it includes algorithms for shortest path and transitive closures, as well as breadth and depth first iterators. And the gravy on top is its support for writing DOT files which can be imported into OmniGraffle. Brilliant...

Slicehost

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Finally got my slice at Slicehost and am slowly migrating from my 5 year old FreeBSD jail to a fancy new Xen instance running Centos. Would love to stay on FreeBSD, but alas, it isn't offered. Completed the DNS migration last night, let's see how those propagate.

Pig Now Incubating

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As mentioned briefly in a previous post, Pig is now available through the Apache incubator.