Getting the best looking fonts for Debian Good old Micrososft provide a bunch of very nice fonts you can use for free. Add deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main to your apt sources list. Then: apt-get install msttcorefonts dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

Dumping the IADB schema VERA is collaborating on cross database searching with Oxford who are working on the VRE for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts (SDM). Each VRE has a database, VERA has an archeology database (the IADB) and SDM will have a database of ancient texts. We want to produce a system [...]

AJAX PHP Chart Widget I have written a PHP widget for making AJAX charts, the motivation was to produce a visual, dynamic charting tool for the web that didn’t require much in the way of system resources. We have been looking at dynamic charting for a long time (in our work with system [...]

Tycho TCP Dump Carl is writing a C implementation of the Tycho client at the mo and asked for a dump of a Tycho message. Here is a 16 byte ping-pong between two Java Tycho clients. Consumer sends 16 bytes to a producer. The payload starts at 0×0110 (it’s grrrrrrrrrrrreat): 14:27:23.617798 IP [...]