Packetslave

MIT Press now distributes the second edition of the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) in HTML format. Lytha Ayth converted the book to Texinfo format, so that the book can be viewed in Emacs. S/he apparently redrew all the figures using ASCII text characters, which is rather perverse.

First post-5.0 release

From Petr at INE:  GET VPN using only two routers.

Looks like vSphere 4.0 update 1 finally supports running the client on Win7 without an ugly DLL hack.

New version of Handbrake with 64-bit OS X support (for faster DVD rips, even on a 32-bit kernel).

New update brings most of the features of the DX to the classic Kindle.  Very cool, but I still love the big screen on my DX for reading technical books.

Coverage and link to a presentation from one of Ebay’s senior architects on how they scale up to 89 million active users and 50TB of new data per day.

Brings a new Events panel that lists all of the event handlers on the page grouped by event type. The panel also nicely integrates with other Firebug panels and allows to quickly find out, which HTML element is associated with specific event listener or see the Javascript source code.

metric_fu provides a bunch of great metric information, which can be very useful. But if you don’t know what parts of it are actionable it’s merely interesting instead of useful.

A collection of Firebug enhancements for jQuery

I don’t really use Solaris much, but this is a great article covering the BSM security auditing subsystem.

A fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.