Hippo, birdies, two ewes...

... to gmcdavid!! Have a great one!

Postal rates going up

Just a reminder, now that filkertom has jogged my memory, that postal rates are going up as of today. Actually it's more complicated than that: the base first class rate is going up (to $0.41), but the rate for additional weight is going down, and there's an additional charge for additional thickness that's going to bite people who mail CDs, for example. It looks like media mail and priority mail rates are still based on weight under some limiting size.

Not surprisingly, the actual rate tables are slashdotted.

AMD to open-source ATI's graphics drivers

About bleeding time! AMD has always been friendly to open source, so after they bought ATI they made it clear that they were going to do it.

According to this article,

AMD will soon deliver open graphics drivers, said Henri Richard just a few minutes ago, and the audience at the opening keynote of the Red Hat Summit broke into applause and cheers. Richard, AMD's executive vice president of sales and marketing, promised: "I'm here to commit to you that it's going to get done." He also promised that AMD is "going to be very proactive in changing way we interface with the Linux community."

I've had my eyes out for AMD64 motherboards, and Fry's has an ASUS Micro-ATX board/CPU combo for cheap this weekend. I'd been eyeing other options because NVidia at least has an open-source 2D driver that doesn't suck. Now, I'm under no illusions here -- it'll be months before fglx is anything other than the steaming pile of bug-infested dog droppings it is now, but at least there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Somebody tell NVidia to watch out for that oncoming train!