In his usual understated way, Yuhi Sonoda announced the first Ruby 1.9.1 release candidate earlier today on the ruby-talk mailing list.
Hi, folks
Ruby 1.9.1 has been just released.
This is a release candidate of Ruby 1.9.1, which will be
the first stable version of Ruby 1.9 series. Try it early
and have a experience of modern, faster, with clearer
syntax, [...]
Korn Shell 93 (ksh93) is the only UNIX or GNU/Linux shell that I am aware of that, with proper setup, supports a modicum of per-user accounting and auditing. This post attempts to explain these facilities and show you how to access and manipulate the resulting accounting and auditing records.
Per-user accounting has been a feature [...]
There was an early Christmas present from the Windows PowerShell (AKA PoSH) Team. The Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3) of Windows PowerShell v2.0 was released on December 23rd just in time for Christmas. The announcement is here. As expected CTP3 builds on the new technology provided in CTP2 which was released in May 2008. You can download CTP3 from [...]
You can now listen my posts being read by either a male or female using an automatic text to speech translater developed by Vozme which uses the Festival Speech Synthesis System developed by the The Center for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Festival is multi-lingual though the British and American dialects [...]
Well Christmas is fast approaching so I decided to experiment with adding audio and video to my blog. If you are from the United Kingdom, Ireland, or much of western Europe you will be no doubt familar with a folk-rock group called The Pogues and their Christmas song called Fairytale of New York which was first [...]