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Sourceforge new face!

Seems that sourceforge has restructured it’s website, and gave it a new looks. I take me a while to familiarise myself with the website, to find some stuff that usually hangs around sourceforge.net.

Personally the new website seems professional, neat and and a bit FreeBSD-like. But one of my friend disagree, telling me that the new sourceforge website looks a bit like hotscripts.com style. lol.

Sourceforge has made a list of changes to their website, their blog is located at : http://blog.dev.sf.net/

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RSS2PDF – Free Online RSS and Atom to PDF Generator

I’ve discovered this website while on the internet, http://www.rss2pdf.com/. Like the title said, this website can turn any of your syndication feeds into pretty PDF documents. RSS2PDF also supports news feed auto-discovery making your life a little bit easier.

What can you do with RSS2PDF? Well for starters, the website itself has given some ideas to visitors on how to utilise them, such as creating comic PDF from any feed at Tapestry Comics, turn google news into pdf articles, and publish your blog feed into paper-based bulletin and transform your flickr photos in PDF style album. The choices are just limitless

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Windows in Malaysian ATM Machines?

I saw this post when i was surfing kamal’s (k4ml) blog. He wrote that he saw a Public Bank ATM running Windows OS, probably with Microsoft Windows NT/9x.

In his words

I walked passing an ATM machine when I noticed something so familiar. I step back to the Public Bank?s ATM and to my suprise .. it was a Windows desktop. The typical win 9x desktop. I?m not sure but it might be Windows NT.

He also has a prove. Lets see :

Source : K4ml’s blog

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Comparing Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0

Came across this article which discusses about Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0 features. I’m interested in this article because I also in the process of implementing/writing RSS/Atom feed plugin myself.

The document itself seems to bias on Atom 1.0 feed, and contain one factual error in which it states that Blogger publishing protocol is widely use with RSS, which is wrong. Blogger use Atom api as its publishing protocol.

Other than that, this document is great is you want to glance through the differences between RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 which is (becoming) an IETF standards-track RFC.

Read the article : RSS 2.0 and Atom1.0, Compared

Worth reading :
RSS 2.0 Specification
Atom 1.0 Syndication Format
What is RSS
Atom Wiki Page

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Linuxtracker – GNU/Linux torrent tracker site

Hey, i found a GNU/Linux distro bittorent tracker site at http://linuxtracker.org/. You can find a lot of GNU/Linux distro here from the most familiar (Debian, Fedora, SUSE and Slackware) to seldom heard distro (astaro, auditor, b2d, berrylinux, etc). There’s a lot of distro to choose from! The list is not only limited to GNU/Linux distro, *BSD distro flavour derived operating systems are also listed here (FreeBSD, opensolaris, netbsd, OpenBSD, etc), making choices more diversified.

On the negative side, distros (torrents) offered here seems to lack seeders, with the exception of popular distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix, etc), you will be considered lucky if you can get a torrent with more than 10 seeders for some seldom heard distro.

Finally, this site can be useful for you if you want to try out exotic distro or to find how diversified GNU/Linux distributions are.