if a trusty graphics editing app you've used for years suddenly insists that every thing you paste should look like a folder icon, you might need this.
"Nitro provides a library of carefully designed middleware and utilities for creating scalable, standards-compliant Web Applications with JavaScript. Nitro is build on top of Jack / JSGI, Narwhal / CommonJS and Rhino."
"Narwhal is a cross-platform, multi-interpreter, general purpose JavaScript platform. It aims to provide a solid foundation for building JavaScript applications, primarily outside the web browser. Narwhal includes a package manager, module system, and standard library for multiple JavaScript interpreters."
"JSGI is a web server interface specification for JavaScript, inspired by Ruby’s Rack (http://rack.rubyforge.org/) and Python’s WSGI (http://www.wsgi.org/). It provides a common API for connecting JavaScript frameworks and applications to webservers.
Jack is a collection of JSGI compatible handlers (connect web servers to JavaScript web application/frameworks), middleware (intercept and manipulate requests to add functionality), and other utilities (to help build middleware, frameworks, and applications)."
"Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address."
"We've posted Smithsonian Web and New Media Strategy, Version 1.0. The strategy talks about an updated digital experience, a new learning model that helps people with their "lifelong learning journeys," and the creation of a Smithsonian Commons—a new part of our digital presence dedicated to stimulating learning, creation, and innovation through open access to Smithsonian research, collections and communities."
@raman: never used it. do you think we should try it here? might be an easy first step before i go finishing a unalog-specific commenting system. plus, you can always export from disqus.