Osnews.com is covering an interesting announcement from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Canonical is releasing a new service called “Personal Package Archive” which allows anyone to upload up to 1gb of open source software and the service will automatically compile it and create and apt repository for the user.
This is a big deal in my [...]
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This month Barry Diller, CEO of IAC split up his media empire into five distinct companies, aligned more or less with their respective sectors. The Home shopping network “HSN”, Lending tree, Ticketmaster, Interval International, and IAC. IAC contains all the remaining Internet properties including Ask.com, Evite, Match.com and CollegeHumor.com
The timing of this is a little [...]
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Last week I started writing the introductory article: “VMWare running native XP on SATA disk” — I promised to have the follow up the next day. It has been more than week. What can I say, busy week at work.
We left of having configuring the Windows side of the equation, having set up a separate [...]
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I just noticed a new spider in my servers logs: “shelob v1.0″ coming from host 208.223.208.181 which resolved to security-lab1.juniper.net — Per this site: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~pwelsch/shelob/ — shelob stands for “ Shelob Helps Examine Links on Blogs”
For those of you who are keen Tolkien fans, you’ll remember Shelob is the “evil spider”. This story gets [...]
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Sun Microsystems has previously only sold AMD based workstations the Sun Ultra 40 M2 and Sun Ultra 20. This seems to have changed recently –
I just noticed they released the Sun Ultra 24, and Intel Core 2 Duo based system.
This comes after Sun started offering the option of Intel Xeon servers, compared with their initial [...]
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Ivan Voras, the main FreeBSD developer behind finstall, the upcoming FreeBSD installer has just created a project on sourceforge to make the development and interaction with the community easier.
The project page is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/finstall/
Needless to say, this would be much easier if the FreeBSD project would just get off its perforce repository for “pre-production” development [...]
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There have been a few attempts at documenting the process of running a windows install directly from the hard disk via VMWare running on a GNU/Linux host. The most publicized attempt was made “digg famous” here: Running a Windows Partition in VWware — they all fall flat in various ways. The previous example could [...]
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But We Said No, “Voices from the German Underground” by Paul Bonart is a gripping first hand account of life in the early days of Nazi Germany.
The story picks up pace when Paul starts his internship with the Carl Zeiss company in Jena, Germany. It chronicles his involvement with the “ISK” an underground, international [...]
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There is a new crawler on the block — the VisBot has been making its rounds. The seemingly legitimate crawler led me to its companies site: Visvo — and I like what I’ve found. Why does Visvo matter among this new wave of search start ups? Three reasons: 1) Each search result has an explain [...]
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Fresh on the heels of beta1, the FreeBSD team has released Beta2 of their upcoming 7.0 release scheduled for this December.
If you are already running FreeBSD 7 Beta1, the proper way to upgrade to beta2 is by checking out the RELENG_7 tag using a tool like CVSUP.
Announcement: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/037966.html
I’ll update this post in several hours and [...]
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There is a really interesting thread on the FreeBSD-Arch mailing list about supporting a subset of C++ in the kernel. Poul-Henning Kamp (PHK), a well known FreeBSD developer voiced objections early on in favor of an augmented C like language called K (link to FreeBSD wiki).
Poul-Henning Kamp’s main concerns revolved around his opinion [...]
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The first (developer) release of Sun’s Gnu/Linux inspired OpenSolars distribution has been released. Earlier in the month we reported on “Project Indiana Details” emerging in which the first developer release was promised for the end of October. Sun honoured that date — if by the skin of their teeth.
This present release is both a Live [...]
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