I turned on OpenBSD's implementation of greylisting on the weekend, and have seen a noticable decline in SPAM received. Way to go OpenBSD team!

Adobe has officially announced what many of us had feared, that there will never ever be an OS X version of Framemaker. This appeared yesterday at

http://www.adobe.com/store/products/master.jhtml?id=catFrameMaker

and

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@200.ytcUcrqVdLG.0@.2cd0cc96 (click "login as guest").

Since as of April 21 next, Framemaker is no longer a cross-platform product (Solaris doesn't really count where we live and breathe), I personally recommend that we take steps to discontinue purchasing any and all Adobe products.

Ian

On the second site cited above, Adobe makes the claim that "The decision to discontinue FrameMaker on the Macintosh operating systems was based on the market conditions for FrameMaker. The majority of our customers use FrameMaker on Microsoft Windows and Sun Solaris platforms." Well Duh! They are four years behind in releasing a version that looks anything like a current Macintosh Framemaker, so what did they expect? I have known and used Framemaker since the 3.0 days, when it was run by Frame Technologies, before Adobe took it over. Framemaker, we weep for thee.

It's been forty years and IBM still has not learned how to write a simple interactive tool that generates usable information to the user.

$ db2 -u db2inst1 -w topSecret
DB21002E  The parameter for option "-u" specified after the "db2" command or
in the DB2OPTIONS variable is missing or incorrect.
$ db2 -help
DB21001E  The option "-h" specified after the "db2" command or in the
DB2OPTIONS variable is missing or incorrect.
$ db2 --help
$

The last one - no output at all - is among the most amusing.
And if you finally do get into the "db2" program and want to leave it: $ db2 ... db2 => exit DB210334E The command was processed as an SQL statement because it was not a valide Comand Line Processor command. During SQL processing it returned: SQL0104N And unexpected token "END-OF-STATEMENT" was found following "exit". Expected tokens may include: "JOIN ". SQLSTATE=42601 db2 => quit DB2000000I The QUIT command completed successfully. $ Somehow, they still don't get it.

I got my hands on a Treo 600! But you'll have to wait to read about it; I'm putting all my thoughts together into a review instead of leaking it out piecemeal in blogs.

OpenBSD's SPAM filtering took another turn for the better with the addition of GreyListing. This is in -current and will be in 3.5, out on CD's soon.