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David Allan Finch's Web Log (2003)

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Wednesday 16th April 2003

Awstats

I have been playing around with awstats to do the web stats for several sites, I looked at the Perl source of awstats and was a bit shocked at it. I was thinking of making some changes to improve the dns caching but I am not sure that I have the time to restructrure the source code as well :( May when I have more time later in the year.

Solaris Doors

I made a small change to use Solaris' Doors in some RPC code when on the local machine, I was expect that the would be a small improvement, but I was suprised to see quite a large one. It seams that Doors removed the 'duck into' the kernel and this is quite a noticeable win.

Malloc Lib

In the way that everyone reinvents the wheel because they did not like someone else wheel I wrote a new malloc library. It had the special feature that it returned the memory pages back to the OS when the page was no longer in use. I am working on getting this library release to the public domain. I am not sure how I get it into one of the public libraries but I will cross the bridge when I get permission.

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Monday 13th April 2003

Business

It's the UK TAX end of year ... "Pay unto Ceaser what is Ceaser's" :(

The X Windows System

Yes, I am one of those people ... that remembers the days of xlib and was a member of the EXUG. I have always felt a bit removed from the X community since XFree took over after the GreatUnixWar? (ie AT&T+Sun vs everyone else) ended spawned the talking shop of the OSF which eat the X Consultium and then did nothing with it.

I will be watch the new developements with xwin.org with intrest.

OpenDCE?

I would realy like to find some free time to help out with this project as it is something that the *nix community should use more of. RPC technology is still the future, Web Services are infact just the same thing using XML as the transport mechanism.

Hobbies

Things have moved on in our gaming group and we now have a large Wiki site IronFort?. I let the old NewGallo site die and moved the information to NewGallo Shared Campaign.

Movies

Saw Jonny Darko last week, a very intresting film. In a way it's rough edges are what makes the film worth watching.

Life

It is weird but I am off to the UK SF EasterCon again this year and I notice that it is two years since I posted a diary, does life fly some times.

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