Now that the heated debates about Konfabulator vs. Dashboard has become history, I’ve asked myself a very basic question: considering that ActiveDesktop on my Windows machine is rendered by MSIE (security risks notwithstanding), should it not be possible to create a webpage full of widgets without any help from Samurize? I am not looking for … Read more
Mitch Kapor’s Weblog: Chandler’s Network Architecture: Priorities Change An interesting take on peer-to-peer vs. central server-based architecture for Chandler. I would be more than delighted to see Chandler mature into if not an Outlook-killer, then at least a worthy replacement (or maybe continuation) of ECCO. Whatever milestones are available for public review right now are … Read more
Project GoneME Fixes Perceived Gnome UI Errors To continue ‘”fat linux” theme — a very nice take at what and why. While the US Political System parallel may be questionable, overall the post does stir-up some thoughts…
The moment I saw a mention on Slashdot that FreeBSD has oficially moved to X.Org X11 server I was running cvsup(1) on my port collection. A few hours later I was firing up xinit(1) to see if all was in order… and I was welcomed by a grey background and an X in the middle … Read more
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