The Fast-Food Syndrome: The Linux Platform is Getting Fat – OSNews.com I tend to agree with much of what was mentioned in OSNews post, even though it is not a good sign 🙂 I still remember my old P100 with, ugh, 16(?) Mb and a puny 2Mb video — that thing could run much of … Read more
There are quite a few resources available on the ’Net about compilation and setup of PostgreSQL on a Mac OS X. This O’Reily article, and this one from Apple just to name a few. For me, where both these articles are falling short is in describing how to set Postgres to start automatically when I … Read more
Dru Lavigne has posted a new column at O’Reily’s BSD Devcenter on hte subject of FreeBSD ports: ONLamp.com: Interesting New Ports [Mar. 25, 2004]. This port in particular is interesting, since it seems to live up to the promise to help tightening a few bolts of FreeBSD security.
I have joined the happy crowd of WRT54G owners just a day after a major security hole was reported in the little box that could. Needless to say, admin password was changed immediately after the router has been powered up.
Encryption support request in Adium X. I have just posted the following bit to Adium X support forum: There seems to have been a lot of discussion on this in the past threads, yet it would seem that for the sake of providing something “superior” nothing is available so far. While I would agree that … Read more
(linux & !debian = bad news), Sun, Solaris is a very nice take at Windows/Linux?Solaris and how Sun should play that game. I wholeheartedly agree with his point about RH and derivatives RPM hell — I remember trying (or facing? or suffering?) it once in the past — that was one of the reason I … Read more
Ther e is an article at PopSci’s site Is This What War Will Come To?, and a related thread on Slashdot. One thing that bothered me while I was reading this article is that while (theoretically) trying to make me (or an abstract reader) feel more secure (sure, with weapons like these, who’d ever consider … Read more
Darwinports have passed 1500 ports mark! I only wish port command could get a bit more sophisticated — more like FreeBSD‘s portupgrade(1)…
Field notes How easy is it to convert one GNU/Linux distribution to the other? Is it at all possible on a live system? Well, it is possible. It has been done. There are ways. It is tricky. It maybe dangerous. No I do not guarantee it will work for you. It may actually not work big time, causing your system to … Read more