Install Opera 11.61 on Ubuntu 11.10

Simple steps to install Opera 11.61 on Ubuntu 11.10(Oneiric Ocelot)

1. Get the latest opera debian package from this link

http://www.opera.com/download

2. Run .deb file as root user

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/opera_11.61.1250_i386.deb

Nginx 1.1.16 - Development version

Nginx 1.1.16 development version is available. Changes in Nginx 1.1.16 are

    * Change: the simultaneous subrequest limit has been raised to 200.

    * Feature: the "from" parameter of the "disable_symlinks" directive.

    * Feature: the "return" and "error_page" directives can be used to
       return 307 redirections.

    * Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
       "resolver" directive was used and there was no "error_log" directive
       specified at global level.
       Thanks to Roman Arutyunyan.

    * Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
       "proxy_http_version 1.1" or "fastcgi_keep_conn on" directives were
       used.

    * Bugfix: memory leaks.
       Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.

    * Bugfix: in the "disable_symlinks" directive.

    * Bugfix: on ZFS filesystem disk cache size might be calculated
       incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 1.0.1.

    * Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 12.1 compiler.

    * Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc on Solaris; the bug had

More information and stable version of Nginx available here.

Scala Driver for MongoDB - Casbah

Casbah is an interface for MongoDB designed to provide more flexible access from both Java and Scala. While the current core focus is on providing a Scala oriented wrapper interface around the Java mongo driver, support for other JVM languages may come in the future.

For the Scala side, contains series of wrappers and DSL-like functionality for utilizing MongoDB from within Scala. This currently utilises the very Java-oriented Mongo Java driver, and attempts to provide more scala-like functionality on top of it. This has been tested with MongoDB 1.2.x+ and v2.x of the Mongo java driver.

Tutorial and more information available here.

Scientific Linux 6.2!

Scientific Linux 6.2 has been available for i386 and x86_64. You can download it form here.

PostgresSQL - Release 9.1.3, 9.0.7, 8.4.11 and 8.3.18!

PostgresSQL has been announced security and maintenance release of versions 9.1.3, 9.0.7, 8.4.11 and 8.3.18 last week.

Bug and performance fixes in this minor release include


* Fix btree index corruption from insertions concurrent with vacuuming
* Avoid crashing when we have problems deleting table files post-commit
* Fix recently-introduced memory leak in processing of inet/cidr
* Fix postmaster to attempt restart after a hot-standby crash

Download and release announcement available here.