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I've written a Python script to generate a publishable playlist using XMMS.

I use on it on my PowerBook G3 under Yellow Dog Linux. There is no documentation, yet, but the source is on my CVS server.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Cellular Firms Bet On Wireless Gaming. AT&T, Sprint, etc.

Russ — Nearly Everything About eBooks.

Mike — Re: Open Communities.

Chris — You Call That An Application?

Andreas — KnowledgeTree – OpenSource Document Management.

Paul  — Q12 – Another exciting keypad design.

Christoph — Regular Expression Tester for Eclipse.

Javadoc Search 1.0.1, a search tool for JavaDoc.

14.1-inch Tablet PC. A French company, Albatross, is coming out with what looks like one of best Tablet PCs yet: the TBPC00803…

Dave — Links..

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WebWindow 2.1.3 (Java Web Browser) Available.

Matt — MySQL 4.x Dubbed “Production Ready”.

Henri — Open Communities.

Dominic — ObjectWeb momentum.

Rusty — Sun is requesting public feedback on the next version of the Java Community Process.

Mark — Atom API implementation.

Simon — Running Python from a Windows network.

Christoph — Hot Eclipse plugins and Knowhow links.

FindBugs 0.6.4, a program to find bugs in Java programs.

Roxio Toast 6 Titanium. $99.95 in September.

If Players Can't Use A Computer To Count Cards, Can The Casino? Hmmm…

Alan — 13 days … JDJ = porn? … linuxworld … 61.

Karl — Everybody's a Rocket Scientist.

RealNetworks selling Rhapsody through Best Buy. RealNetworks is now selling subscriptions to its Rhapsody online music service at Best Buy stores in the U.S.

Hollywood Blames Text Messaging For Bad Movie Turnout. The solution is simple: make better movies.

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Matt — Palmspring's New Name and LuPy 0.1.5.3 Released.

Mike — Seraph – Atlassian's J2EE security framework released.

Crowbar: WebLogic 8.1 Blows Away The Last 100 Years Of Technology.

www.microsoft.com runs Linux?. Up to a point…

Jim — N-Gage – the love hate relationship.

Joe — I don't think I get JSF.

Dion — JDO 2.0: Lot's of changes discussed at the kickoff meeting.

Linux ‘easily’ recompiled to dump SCO. Only a matter of time.

Frank — New FOAF spec.

Charles — Beware Regular Expressions.

Apple ships single processor Power Mac G5s. Dual 2.0 Ghz shipping later this month.

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Diego — the one-minute-guide to JXTA.

Carlos — AspectWerkz's Replacement Libraries.

Henri — Java on Z documents…

Fred — Lomboz 2.1 version is Here!

Dominic — Enterprise J2ME can't wait.

Mike — Book on the way! and WebWork 2 / XWork beta releases.

Paul — Mini-Review of Bitter EJB.

Michael — Expand your enterprise skill set for Java Everywhere with “Enterprise J2ME”.

Rusty — DocBook Doclet 0.4.6 and JGraphT 0.5.0.

Carlos — Reviewing JXTA In a Nutshell.

Ben — Stupid code tricks.

Cedric — Google's puzzling algorithms.

Matt — Playing jokes on other developers.

Garth — What's New in Python 2.4.

Christoph — Optimizing HTML output by 20% or more.

JavaDBF 0.3.2, a Java library for reading and writing Xbase files.

Low-Carb Version of French Fries. Cauliflower French fries?

AltaVista Introduces Search Toolbar. AltaVista has launched a Search Toolbar that lets you search its web, news and multimedia catalogs while visiting any page on the web.

Thousands attend Presley vigil. A candlelit procession at Graceland marks the 26th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley.

On August 18, 1937 — The first FM radio construction permit was issued in Boston, MA. The station went on the air two years later.

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Java Tip: Fast math with JNI.

Metrowerks: All’s Clear On Embedded Linux Front. CodeWarrior Development Studio for Sharp Zaurus Application Development 1.0

Matt — Most Reliable Web Hosts Still Run FreeBSD.

T-Mobile posts strong earnings growth. 19% subscriber growth against a year ago.

Fred — KnowledgeBase Up for Motorola Handsets-J2ME.

Hani — Fred Grott guest blog!

AWStats 5.7 released. I use it to generate the stats for all of my sites.

qpe-gaim 0.2. Gaim for Qtopia, an official port of the multi-protocol instant messenger client Gaim for the Zaurus and other PDAs running Qtopia.

Windows XP SP2 Delayed Until Late 2004. Third quarter of 2004.

BoxPlugin 0.1 for IDEA. Conversion intentions from one type to another.

Three vids for Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime.

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I wrote down the steps I took to configure a NETGEAR MA410 wi-fi card on my PowerBook G3 Wallstreet under Yellow Dog Linux.

Jeremy — What happened to Yahoo's Millionaires?

JFtp 1.34, a graphical network browser supporting FTP, SMB, SFTP, NFS, HTTP, and local I/O.

It's summertime for silly gadgets. Wi-Fi chair, Toilet paper printer, etc.

Wireless Networks Still Work in Blackout. Thank god for backup generators.

James — Cory on Trademarks.

McDonald's Offering Prizes for Use of McWiFi. Free laptops and Palm Tungsten C's.

Jason — More thoughts on JCP spec leads.

Joe — LANMP3 source posted.

Microsoft's plan to beat the worm. Bye-Bye IP.

Rod — Commons Logging was my fault.

Brian — Final Countdown to JDeveloper 10g Preview.

Debian Hits Double Digits on August 16th! A decade, already?

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François — Introducing i18n and l10n.

Matt — PocketFeed 0.6.

Dave — JSP-based tree controls?

Andy — Find a jar part III.

Hackers Explained: The Techniques (PART II).

Werner — Finding and deleting files recursively on linux.

Bill — Ant's junit task is too verbose.

ZDNet Aussie: Seventeen-inch LCD monitor roundup.

When wireless fails, callers turn to landlines. The regular public telephone network generally kept working after the power went out in parts of six states…

Complete List of Emmy Nominations and List of Emmy Winners. Is that a placeholder?

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Anyplace, anywhere, anytime. Nena feat. Kim Wilde.

Jeremy — Do they really work?

Matt — Roundup: I'd Rather Be Whistling In The Dark.

Martin — WiFi In Edinburgh Update.

Henri — Fixing Java on the Zaurus C760.

Dominic — Fast Web Services.

JSVN, Java Subversion Client.

Svn-Up, a java interface for the subversion api and a multiplatform gui for Subversion and a plugin to connect subversion to the Idea IDE.

SuperVision, another project aiming to develop a Java/Swing based visual client for the Subversion version control system.

Henri — Debugging a Zaurus Java app.

Dominic — Toshiba e355 for $200.

Vinny — GenJar – Java app deployment made easy.

Matthew — WebWork2/XWork Beta.

Jim — The Darkness.

Guy — Exactly how do you talk on a wrist-phone?

New Sharp Mebius Notebooks Play DVDs Without Booting! Mebius Notebooks PC-SV1-7DB and PC-SV1-5CB.

On August 15, 1949 — In San Francisco, a stunt leap off the Golden Gate Bridge was performed for the first time.

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Diego — “weblog” is one word.

Matt — Power Outages and Blackout Moblog.

Matt — AppFuse 0.9.1 Released.

Fred — EclipseTechnologies at AlphaWorks.

Erik — Nutch - Google in a JAR.

McBlog — unsynchronized StringBuffer – let the Tiger in!

Kevin — WyPy the Minuscule Wiki.

Rafe — Natively compiled Eclipse.

Norman — Java and shell scripts.

Steven — P800 & GPRS.

SCO's Licensing Fight Turns a Profit. $7.3 million of revenue from its controversial Unix-licensing efforts.

Fred — Legal Expert Claims SCO Group Claims Against Linux Fraudulent.

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I wonder if support for Google Calculator is going to be implemented in the Google APIs at some point.

Biggest. Ugliest. Wristphone. Ever! Say no to Wristomo.

Mike — Bye Struts-Dev.

JMP 0.33, a runtime profiler of the JVM, with object and method statistics.

What's coming up in GNOME 2.4. A look at GNOME 2.

OpenOffice.org for Windows 1.1 RC3 and OpenOffice.org for Linux 1.1 RC3 Released.

Outlook Express On Life Support? Typical Microsoft… hook 'em, then sink 'em.

The reading lounge: Java NIO.

Make the most of Xerces-C++, Part 1.

Magic with Merlin: Formatting numbers and currency.

Instant logging: Harness the power of log4j with Jabber.

Quick Office for Series 60. Word Processor and Powerpoint Viewer.

Rusty — JSR 184: Mobile 3D Graphics API for J2ME, JSR-185: Java Technology for the Wireless Industry (JTWI), JSR-195: Information Module Profile and JSR 114: JDBC Rowset Implementations.

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Jonaz — AspectWerkz 0.8 is released.

802.11g drives Wi-Fi sales. But 802.11b still rules the roost.

Janne — Penthouse Goes Bankrupt, Americans Fleeing To Canada and Europe.

Office In Three Flavors. VirtualPC bundled in Professional edition.

Microsoft beats Apple iTunes Music Store to Europe. Partnership with music industry darling, OD2.

Roman — JetBrains T-Shirts and Mugs.

Simon — Python & Java: a Side-by-Side Comparison.

SuSE putting dents in Microsoft's armor. Richard Seibt, CEO.

JavaScript Exception Handling. It's sad but true — error-free code is still largely a Utopian dream.

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Thanks to all the people who have expressed their sympathies regarding Max. We both really appreciate it.

IBM refreshes Java tool. WebSphere Studio update.

Blaine — Don't use Virtual Dimension. I like it, works great for me. The transparency options are ubber cool.

Russ — Explosion and The Realities of Connecting via GPRS.

Fx — Fred, what about a comment …

Todd — Crazy Cool Dealz.

I forgot to mention it then but we saw a trailer for Underworld last Saturday. It looks mighty good.

Charles — Trust and Non-Public Members.

Mike — No One's Buying Tablet Computers. Yeap, not too suprising.

Rusty — IzPack 3.1.0 and JSP TestRunner.

Martin — Things You Never Knew Existed.

RIAA undeterred by subpoena setback. “This is a minor procedural issue…”

On August 14, 1989 — Bon Jovi's “New Jersey” album became the first U.S. album to be released legally in the Soviet Union. The Russian label Melodiya paid the group with a truckload of firewood since rubles can't leave Russia.

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Jim — I won't be back!

Matt — Chiba and Boa Constructor.

Hasta La Vista, Mobi! Schwarzenegger said to be investor in Israeli mobile startup.

Henri — Zaurus details page.

Dave — Wiki asshole on the attack.

David — 1500 downloads and counting.

Michael — Abandon Java for VB.NET?

Mark — XMLMind XML-Editor 2.4 available.

Steve — Java “a Plus” Working at MSDN.

Nick — C++… Such a waste of time!

Jeremy — Intel withdraws sponsorship of SCO trade show.

Keith — I hate PHP.

Simon — PHP Library Tips.

Sylvain — Cocoon 2.1 released.

Norman — Confessions of a Java Zealot.

Andy — Simple utility to find a class in a set of jars recursively.

Aaron — ColdFusion Developer's Journal: Writing a Java-based CFX Tag.

JEdit: Now with Wiki goodness.

Apple Issues OS X Refunds For Some. Tentative settlement.

Glen — Idea editor tricks I just discovered.

Matt — On verbosity, Ant's syntax and XML.

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Max was put to sleep at 5:45pm. We'll miss her.

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Java Pro 2003 Enterprise Buyer's Guide. Look at it before making those difficult enterprise purchasing decisions.

Cluster Resources in Containers. Develop a simple resource manager interface that accommodates XML and other object groups stored in arbitrary containers.

JMX for Managing Java Applications. Without a distributed services layer, management help from JMX may be limited.

Event Triggering XSLT Magic. Conduct e-business the contemporary way—reuse XSLT rules in components without code replication.

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JAX-RPC on the Sun ONE Web Services Platform Developer Edition, Part 2.

Who is Dave Winer? Pay $500 and find out…

Henri — Manual for the c760.

Debashish — Javaranch Wiki.

Nick — A Java bug worthy of your vote.

Darren — Coolest keyboard ever.

Charles — Fred Grott: Which meial?

Evolution 2.0 weblog.

Panther Server To Include JBoss.

Boot-able DiskOnKey USB Flash Drive. M-Systems, using FreeDOS.

Dong— Java RMI.

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We moved our next vet appointment for Max to today. She's no longer able to hold her bladder

She has hardly ate anything in days and has no strength left in her back legs.

When Vicki called the vet yesterday, she was basically told they did not think she would last this long.

Unless they have some kind of booster shot, I don't think it would be fair to prolong her agony.

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AntFit, a FIT task for Ant.

JComboEditor, RTF & Text Editor-EMailer Combo.

Omniscient Debugging, a timestamp-based debugger.

Guy — Burger-surfing: McDonalds announces "biggest WiFi move yet" in Chicago.

Henri — c760 continued…

David — IntelliJ Aurora build 896 is available.

Matt — Using the T68i as a GRPS Modem.

Michael — Java games discussion on JDJ.

John — GNOME (Metacity) Keyboard Shortcuts.

Simon — 10 Python pitfalls.

Dan — IP masquerading made easy.

Marc— $5 an hour…. $8 all day ….. ain't bad.

Apache Ant 1.5.4. The last JDK 1.1 compatible version.

Intel launches mainstream 800MHz FSB chipset. i848P debuts.

Iomega to re-enter removable hard drive biz. 2.5in disk offers 35GB.

Bananas. New Deep Purple album.

On August 13, 1846 — The American Flag was raised for the first time in Los Angeles, CA.

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Matt — Amok! Amok! Amok!

Anthony — IRC APIs.

Blaine — Virtual Desktop software for windows. I'm going to give it a try.

Henri — Arrival of C760 Zaurus.

Behrang — Is Borland going to destroy Together?

Cedric — Announcing EJBGen 2.15.

Garth — test.py - a self-testing test script runner.

Steven — Java Poop.

WinCVS 1.3b13-2, Python 2.3 support!

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Sun joins JDOCentral as a charter member. JDO 2.0 work begins.

WS-I releases Basic Profile 1.0, a set of specifications that guarantees Web services interoperability.

Diego in praise of RMI and reverse engineering: a case study.

Jim — JabRSS growth and Mobile Content – Where's it going?

Russ — Using the Nokia 3650 as a GPRS Modem.

Ewan — Camera Phones Save Lives.

Matt — Athlon 64 Logo and Google Calculator.

MS Hit by Patent Violation on IE. Must pay $1.47 per copy ‘sold’. That's around $520,000,000.

Henri — New OSJava releases.

Matt — Cool JSP Tag: State Tag.

Rusty — MockEjb and  Authorization Toolkit for Java.

Hani — A present to Andy: Bile by request.

Martin — Interesting debate about Java and PHP interaction.

Andres — NewzCrawler 1.5. My favorite aggregator.

Bertrand — OSX for geeks tips.

Rogers — Seven million identity thieves a year.

Simon — Processing RSS in Java and WebSphere Development Studio Client 5.1.

Charles — Gosling on Java.

Todd — Ouch… my zipper is stuck!

Gateway's Pocket PC: DOA? Gateway's 100X Pocket PC indefinitely delayed.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

On August 12, 1958 — Billboard magazine introduced the “Hot 100” singles chart.

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Jay — Java jobs making a slight comeback.

Steve — Top Ten Toys for Java Coders in JDeveloper 9.0.5.

Jeremy — A Way To Avoid The Messaging Nasties. I use ZoneAlarm on my Windows box.

NYT: AOL Time Warner Considers Cutting 'AOL' From Name.

Judge Rejects RIAA Subpoenas. A bump in the road?

DevWiki 0.9.7, an application of Webtrans which is an editable website.

[@964]

Rio reveals 20GB Ogg Vorbis network music player. Karma, Nitrus, Cali, Chiba , Chiba and Rio Fuse.

Joshua — Where are my free JavaBeans?!

Rusty — version 0.2.9 of XML Indent, JXP 1.3 and second release candidate of JavaHelp 2.0.

Jeremy — HP Means HapPy.

JCards 4.0rc1, a free Java application designed to store and manage data in any format.

Many Bluetooth gadgets open to wireless snooping. Duh!

GPL goes to court. IBM's SCO counter suit breaks cover.

Joi — Is streamripping illegal?

JMeter 1.9 final version released.

Matt — RSS Owl 0.51b.

Matt — Tomcat 5.0.7 Alpha.

Andrej — 9.0.5 equals 10G.

Jeremy — Talk Directly to the Unix Yahoo! Messenger Team.

Orb — java.blogs best practices.

Andy— Open Source gets a lobbying group.

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Javarules, free online Java book available.

Jikes Bytecode Toolkit, a 100% Java class library that enables Java programs to create, read, and write binary Java class files.

JAR Class Finder, a WSAD/Eclipse plug-in utility for finding JAR files containing a given class.

GCC 3.3.1 Released.

Jim — Vodafone, wake up!

Russ — URIs, Java Packages and Domain Names, Storing Markup, The Job Search and Java Almanac Reminder.

Matt — Mono Python Bindings.

Carlos — Pair Programming With Yourself!

Al — Siemens SX-1 new info and images.

Henri — JBoss Group commits PR gaff.

David — blojsom 2.0 codebase seeded.

Matt — AppFuse 0.9 Released!

Arjun — Java.net and weblogs: The Road ahead.

James — JBoss, Elba, Geronimo! FudBucket!

Eugene — A nasty trick with the mouse wheel.

Kirk — How free is your IDE?

Hani — The evils of commons-logging.jar and its ilk.

Daniel — Just a Little JXTA Muse.

Andreas — AndroMDA - MDA Code Generation Framework.

Bertrand — There's no such thing as a blank namespace.

Kevin — Dear Mr Schwarzenegger.

Simon — Code personalities.

Kenneth — bash csh ksh Shell Resources at SHELLdorado.

Steve — How to survive a slashdotting.

Luke — Hella cool.

Keith — Eclipse 3.0 M2 on Linux.

Gaim 0.1 for Zaurus.

JaxMeJS 1.12,a JaxMe JavaSource generation framework.

‘TRON’ finally spawns game. Only took 21 years.

The Cyclic Ketogenic Diet. Looks interesting.

Actor-dancer Gregory Hines dead at 57. Cancer sucks.

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We went to see S.W.A.T on Saturday. We both really liked it. It has a very realistic feel to it, which is quite unusual for the action genre.

On August 11, 1874 — A patent for the sprinkler head was given to Harry S. Parmelee.