FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 has been released. The main FreeBSD.org page has not yet been updated; however, the RELENG_7_0 branch has been created in CVS and there are ISO builds for i386 and amd64.
This is really exciting. Also remember ULE is still not the default scheduler and must be enabled via a custom kernel and a [...]
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I recently did a fresh install of the amd64 gusty gibbon release only to find the flash plugin was no longer working.
The problem is that Adobe has released a new version of the plugin, however the ubuntu team has still not updated the deb package to contain the updated md5sum checksum, so after apt-get dutifully [...]
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It has been a good holiday season for the ruby crowd. Frirst rails 2.0 was released and now ruby 1.9 which is supposed to have some impressive speed improvements.
Download links here: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/136553
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Wired has a list of its top ten startups to watch in 2008. There are some predictable ones (23 and me)… but a few surprises such as AdMob and Dash.
Here is a link to Wired: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/12/YE_10_startups
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Apple has released a new developer preview for Java 1.6 on Leopard. It’s a bit late in the game to still be releasing developer previews I think. The download is available on the Apple Developer Connect (ADC) website here: http://developer.apple.com/java/
In other news TCL/Tk 8.5 has been released. Get yours fresh here: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.html
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NetBSD 4.0 has just been released supporting several improvments w/regards to Xen the popular paravirtualization package, and also CARP the “Common Address Redundancy Protocol” initially implemented by OpenBSD.
NetBSD 4.0 is dedicated to the memory of Jun-Ichiro “itojun” Hagino, a well known IPv6 hacker who died in October 2007.
Read the release announcement here:http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2007/12/19/0000.html
I’ll be writing a [...]
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I’ve been waiting for Will Smiths new vampire/zombie movie “I am Legend” to come out. I would encourage people to go see it. However there were a few things that were inconsistent and really deserved to be covered more in the movie mostly the following:
Spoiler Alert!
The evolution of dark-seeker intelligence.
The effects of the virus on [...]
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After some intense web-window shopping over the weekend I’ve decided to go with Webfaction as my webhost, and I’m generally impressed. I actually dreaded the migration out of the server I’m running in my closet (I kid you not)… but I realized I need to give up some control so I can focus on the [...]
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Ah! I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon the package page for solr in the “testing” branch. Although I’m not sure how practical it will be unless the urses based installer prompts your for the docBase and web-app name you want to use to create the correct Context xml snippet and place it in Catalina/localhost [...]
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SOLR, “Searching On Lucene with Replication” which started out life at CNET, before it was released to the open source community comes with a solid example configuration using the Jetty embeded servlet container.
Getting SOLR running on Debian GNU/Linux with Tomcat in production environments can be a tad tricker. If you just unpacked the dist/solr.war into [...]
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Zimba is the full open source “collaboration” suite (email…calendar…) though it really should be classified as a semantic application due to its “Documents” feature which allows you to create notebooks with “pages” (aka light weight web-pages) that you can easily drag and drop snippets of text into.
It is relatively easy to setup and run (I [...]
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