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Official FreeBSD Forum

vitaliy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:24:45 +0000

The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. It is our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channel for FreeBSD users around the world and as a complement to our fine mailing lists. You can register and start using [...]

CentOS on Top 500 Supercomputers

vitaliy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:50:16 +0000

From the Linux list undoubtedly more are using CentOS, but the remarkable fact is that this known 1% CentOS is the same amount as the 5 Windows supercomputers. by Dag Wieers

Upgrade from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 Preview

vitaliy — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:36:05 +0000

Fedora 10 Cambridge is set to be released on November 25th with ton’s of new improvements and features. If you are just as impatient and would like to upgrade to the preview release, without downloading the ISO files, simply update the release files and go through your standard update procedure. [root@infamous ~]# rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Preview/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-9.93-1.noarch.rpm ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Preview/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-9.92-4.noarch.rpm You [...]

Quagga on RHEL and CentOS

vitaliy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:42:56 +0000

Ivan Pepelnjak of IOS Hints posted an excellent article on installing and running Quagga on Fedora Core over at CT3 wiki. Installing and maintaining Quagga on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS is even easier since the package manager automatically generates users, init scripts, and provides an easy upgrade path for the future. To install Quagga [...]

GCC 4.3.2 and -march=native

vitaliy — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:49:11 +0000

While configuring a new Gentoo Linux workstation I came across -march=native CFLAGS. Glancing over at GCC documentation, as of version 4.3.2 GCC is capable of automatically detecting what CPU you are using and setting appropriate optimization options. 32bit Users CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" 64bit Users CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

Software RAID1 on RHEL and CentOS

vitaliy — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:11:02 +0000

A visual how to guide to creating basic RAID1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. We will be creating 1 gigabyte swap partition and using the remaining space for /. Boot up Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS installation media. Once you have reached the disk utility select Remove all partitions on selected drives and [...]

IPv4 vs IPv6 Map

vitaliy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:51:22 +0000

Wait… what?

vitaliy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:49:28 +0000

While browsing around Knol I came across Computer Theology. Computer Theology is the branch of Computer Science and Theology concerned with the study of the role of religion in computer networks. I just checked the calendar, it is not April 1st.

Apple Drops iPhone NDA

vitaliy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:44:00 +0000

However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Glad to see Apple do the right thing.

Poor State of Linux Fonts

vitaliy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:37:20 +0000

Working on site with a client reminded me of how poor font rendering is on Linux, and what little progress has been made since I stopped using Linux on the desktop almost two years ago. While trying to work on a document with a couple of Linux users I have noticed how poor hinting and [...]

Haven’t found this in high quality elsewhere…

brad — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:12:28 +0000

This was featured on major news sites some time back and linked to YouTube - unfortunately the YouTube version has mono sound. I had a hard time finding a combination of relatively high quality video and stereo sound for this. Best I could get was the video from YouTube and the stereo track from DailyMotion [...]

iPhone Screenshot Security Flaw

vitaliy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:32:20 +0000

It has been a while since a sensationalistic piece on Apple and security has made the news rounds. The latest “security flaw” is that the iPhone takes a temporary screenshot of every window to generate shrinking effect of a window when the home button is pressed. A “forensics expert” has managed to recover said screenshots [...]

NYCBSDCon Registration

vitaliy — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:24:30 +0000

Large Hadron Collider and OOXML

vitaliy — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:30:50 +0000

…1600 pages for every detail of the making of a LHC, 6546 pages in the specs for OOXML and it’s still not enough detail to let you open and create OOXML documents. Obviously the LHC is not adequately complex.

Vista Ad Negotiations

vitaliy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:15:14 +0000

Practically Replacing Microsoft Exchange Server - A 3 Part Series - 3 of 3 - Kerio Mailserver

brad — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:27:53 +0000

Kerio MailServer 6.5 - The Exchange Killer Kerio MailServer, like Zimbra, has until only recently been an 'almost but not quite' Exchange alternative. It has offered Outlook support and integration with Active Directory since 2002, but did not initially support groupware features such as calendaring and shared contacts properly until years later. It wasn't until 2007 that Kerio began to coalesce into an alternative to Exchange -- and with the release of Kerio MailServer 6.5, its transformation into an Exchange killer is complete.

Server Moved.

brad — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:01:42 +0000

I've moved www.brad-x.com into colocation. Until now the server had been operating on various types of local business class connectivity, providing limited bandwidth capacity. This quickly proved inadequate and went unresolved for a long time, so I'm glad to say the server is finally where it belongs, on 100mbps fiber. Hosted users are being moved one at a time, so your virtual host may still seem slow for a while. Not to worry - once these are all moved, they'll be faster than ever. This will provide some good opportunities for the community of users surrounding this server, and I hope to see some good growth come from it. Thanks go to everyone who's supported brad-x.com in the past, present, and future. May there be plenty more to come.

Community Support

vitaliy — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:35:47 +0000

The Slashdot comments on Paid Support Not Critical For Linux Adoption illustrates a very common problem with the Linux community. Many Linux users equate their personal computer use with that of large enterprises, or in other words they give advice based on their own very limited experience and not on facts. The two comments below were [...]

Community Support

vitaliy — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:15:59 +0000