DrunkenBlog hosts two long articles on the issues surrounding Apples move to Intels x86 arch - Part 1 and Part 2. Discusses the unclean nature of OS X's current 64bit-ness as well as endian problems.

DVD - MacTheRipper and Handbrake are two useful OS X tools to rip DVD's to disk. MacTheRipper also removes region encoding and it will rip a DVD even though Apples DVD Player refuses to play it due to a different region code.

Simple command line tool to manipulate images - Sip. Also some useful OS X command line tips over at Acmetech - for example start a GUI app liike this open -a /Applications/TextEdit.app

Tiny database - Stash is a small (20kb) command line database useful for maintaining simple lists.

NFS - How to handle NFS mounts on OS X. Shame you need a new NIS map for the NetInfo automount database. Why couldn't Apple just use a normal amd or autofs map ?

Cool - The Art of Science.

As seen on slashdot - Castle Infinity has been resurrected as a free multi-user game environment.

Nothing special in this article on running Oracle on Linux apart from the short section on using PartitionImage to clone a server. The mention of HP-UX in the article still makes me shudder though ...

Fonts - A survey of twenty typefaces.

Nice article on DShield - a distributed IDS (Intrusion Detection System). Interesting stats such as the Top 10 Targeted Ports and the Top 10 'Offenders'.