The is a knife made from a high carbon railroad spike. The blade is flat ground and about 4.5in long. The whole knife is a little bit longer than 10in. The twist in the handle feels nice in the hand. HC in this case apparently means 1030 which is pretty low carbon content for a knife. While it got to be very sharp, the edge is probably not going to stay that way for very long.
Forging this was a lot of fun and using the spring fuller really helped with separating the steel from the handle and the blade. Making this knife actually didn't take very long. About an hour of forging time, a couple hours of grinding and polishing.
Libevent 2.0.4-alpha is now available for download:
http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-2.0.4-alpha.tar.gz
http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-2.0.4-alpha.tar.gz.sig
The complete change list is available
here.
Some of the feature improvements include:
- bufferevents can now be rate limited
- http connections can now resolve host names asynchronously
- a facility for lock debugging
- arc4random() for evdns
However, we (that means mostly Nick) have also made a large number of bug fixes and stability improvements across many platforms. Many thanks to everyone who helped by providing bug reports and patches including Brodie Thiesfield, Dagobert Michelsen, Evan Jones, Joachim Bauch, Pavel Plesov, Roman Puls, Sebastian Hahn, William Ahern, Yasuoka Masahiko and Zhuang Yuyao.
In a separate email, Nick also provided a much more
verbose description of what all changed.
