While upgrading the OSAF infrastructure we got a newer version of CVS. The version is so new that it doesn't work with the default version of CVS provided with MacOS X. So this afternoon I took a detour to grab a copy of CVS 1.12.3 (later even than what is Finkable), and install it. The first attempt was abortive because I tried to build the HEAD of the CVS CVS. After that I gave up and downloaded a tarball and built that instead. I don't understand why the CVS guys keep breaking stuff like this (or why Apple isn't keeping CVS up to date in Panther -- you get 1.10 which is just too old). I did get subversion installed on my Debian box at home and I Finked a client for the powerbook, so perhaps in the next few days you'll get a report on that.

[Via CNET News] Intel has open sources a library for doing machine learning based on probabilistic network techniques. The licensing is BSD like, with a small survey to be filled out. This should be of interest to people working on next generatation microcontent clients.