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jQuery Sparklines
Feature filled sparkline library. Unobstrusively value turn spans into sparklines.

Snapshots with PostgreSQL and Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems – Jignesh Shah’s Weblog
A tutorial on how we can use ZFS snapshots for backing up postgres. Their open storage NAS solution is being used in the example but it does seem that the advice can be used on any opensolaris server.

Blunck Software – iehttpheaders
A fucking brilliant tool that displays IE headers within the browser without the need of using some debugging proxy software. Like LiveHTTPHeaders for firefox.

RhythmboxPlugins/WritingGuide – GNOME Live!
Guide to writing rythmbox plugins

Switches in server racks: Good idea or not? | Network Administrator | TechRepublic.com
Pro and cons of having switches vs patch panels in your racks.

Everything CUSEC » Zed Shaw: The ACL is Dead @ CUSEC 2008
Gotta watch this

Federated login simplified – RPX: Instant OpenID and Data Portability
RPX serves as a proxy and simplifies the usual federated login handshake. Whats also interesting is the large amount of 3rd parties it supports (Google, MySpace, OpenID, Facebook etc). Beside that it provides hooks for the UI interaction and access to the logged in users profile information.

floola.com – Wiwi – Home
“Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod” Handles music,photos,videos etc. Support for Linux, Mac and Win. No source though.

Mozilla launches LizardFeeder
“The LizardFeeder is a feed aggregator, whose source code is built atop Sam Ruby’s Planet Venus. ” It doesn’t seem to use venus to actually render the aggregated feeds but rather has a really cool Ajax front end. It allows you to view data from the past and filter down the sources that you aggregate from – all via the javascript UI. Nicely designed as well. Source code is available at https://svn.mozilla.org/projects/lizardfeeder/trunk/. Definitely something to look at to improve malaysianheartbeat.com. (via l.m.orchard – http://decafbad.com/blog/2009/01/05/enter-the-lizardfeeder)

Optparse and help formatting? – comp.lang.python | Google Groups
IndentedHelpFormatterNL – Allows for help descriptions in to have new lines to aid formattingg.