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Archive for March 2004

libxml2 patch for fixing line number counting for CDATA

Saturday, March 27th, 2004

[patch] line number counting for CDATA demonstrating the bug and fixing it with a patch I made in 2003. It also closed libxml2 bug 135204

Accepted redland 0.9.16-1 (i386 source)

Friday, March 26th, 2004

Accepted redland 0.9.16-1 (i386 source)

Mono 0.31 Release

Friday, March 19th, 2004

Mono 0.31 Release, 2004-03-18. Now with sparc JIT, better PPC, RelaxNG compact parser and a newer libgdiplus 0.2 - must look at that.

Summary of RDF query tests work, February-May 2003

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

Summary of RDF query tests work, February-May 2003, Libby Miller, Dan Brickley et. al.

Currency Converter by OANDA

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

Currency Converter by OANDA.com, The Currency Site. Very handy for historical currency conversions for expenses.

MySQL lifts restrictive licensing terms

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004

MySQL lifts restrictive licensing terms (Silicon.com) by Stephen Shankland. Reports the adding of a Free and Open Source Software License Exception after discussions with PHP. On the MySQL Open Source License page there are both an Optional GPL License Exception for PHP and link to the MySQL FOSS License Exception listing several free and open source licenses that may be used.

The trouble with Rover is revealed

Monday, March 8th, 2004

The trouble with Rover is revealed by Ron Wilson, EE Times on how the Spirit Mars rover got stuck in a reboot loop due to the limitations of the Flash memory file system.

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