Nice article, but somewhat incomplete. He misses many fonts (like Lucida Console, Envy Code R, Anonymous, Redhat's excellent Liberation Mono,Pragmata and a whole lot of others), he doesn't explain the font differences…
http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01wqp4nKoOn6pk9kHd2tGNlA==... Thanks for this.
Nice setup. I've got a similar one on a server: Each daemon runs on it's own jail. Each jail is created from a cloned ZFS "base" jail filesystem, so it doesn't take any additional space (except each jail's installed…
What exactly do you mean by "debug mode"? FreeBSD has some standard debugging features during development (-current) and beta stages like WITNESS etc, but those have been disabled for 8-RC1 and later.
I liked this article, especially for the last known picture of RMS when he was shaved, and (more seriously) Stallman's quote at the end. This sums it all up quite well in my opinion.
I've given a quick shot to the previous release. Hammer seems stable, after some days of moderate use. It has nice features too, but it requires a "pruner/reblocker" cron job once in a while that might impact…
Indeed. Especially the serif fonts look awful to me on cleartype. I use Safari for this reason alone.
Each stable version of Debian is maintained for one year after the release of the next. Unless this policy changes, this means that the next releases will be supported for a minimum of three years. If the releases were…
Looks like a nice decision, however I also feel that Debian's problem is the huge freeze of thousands of packages, making the 'stable' ('stale' is better for some) distribution out of date quickly while adding a large…
Every once in a while that a similar license discussion emerges, I see a clear pattern: Many,many people do not understand the GPL. In my opinion, this is the major drawback of the GPL: It's complexity. I've read it a…
Yes, this is an amazing roguelike. My favorite one. Too bad it's sequel (Jade) is still vaporware...
I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned the Amstrad CPC. I got one when I was 11. Here in Europe this machine had amazing market penetration those days (80's-early 90's), especially the 6128 model that featured a…
Since one can easily find comparisons, benchmarks, gotchas etc ( you can always start here: http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/MySQL_vs_PostgreSQL ) the one thing that made me decide in favor of PostgreSQL is this (quoting a…
Unfortunately, here in Greece the situation is so ugly that not even those warnings have any change of convincing people to upgrade. I can imagine most of them simply closing the window. Among the reasons for this is…
The FreeBSD people are rigorously testing LLVM, with the goal to replace GCC as soon as possible (for the base system only). At the moment, the base system compiles and runs for some architectures, as noted in…
For those who want this functionality but use a version of Python older than 2.6, there is a backport of this module: http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/
Interesting. Another nice choice for serving static content is rumored to be thttpd. It lacks any kind of FastCGI support though (it's in the proprietary,premium version). Has anyone had any experiences of thttpd versus…
Yes, this latest trend is pure craziness. Here is a relevant wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
Although at it's current state it is probably useless, it's impressive considering it's a one man project.
When FreeBSD was released, at 27 Feb 2008, Kris Kennaway posted a nice slideshow that includes some PostgreSQL and MySQL benchmarks: http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf Database-wise, they should…
Probably you've heard those words from many others as well, but what about spending money for annoying, non-hackerish stuff like * Building a complete, final product with appropriate documentation, feature matrix etc. *…
If you are going to use it interactively, I strongly suggest you insist in using IPython. Try to read the nice manual first in order to get yourself familiar. It offers autocompletion via the tab key, you can easily…
This should give a nice boost in the already awesome job FreeBSD's developers have done profiling the kernel in the 7.x and 8 branches. Note that DTrace on FreeBSD can only be used for kernel-space probing, for the time…
A valuable resource comparing major scm's that I point people to when they ask me is the FreeBSD project's wiki page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VersionControl Hope it helps. Regarding specifically SVN versus GIT, be sure…
Just when we were contemplating the loss of our beloved linux hater...comes this one. Let's give the guy a warm welcome, shall we? ;-)
Nice article, but somewhat incomplete. He misses many fonts (like Lucida Console, Envy Code R, Anonymous, Redhat's excellent Liberation Mono,Pragmata and a whole lot of others), he doesn't explain the font differences…
http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01wqp4nKoOn6pk9kHd2tGNlA==... Thanks for this.
Nice setup. I've got a similar one on a server: Each daemon runs on it's own jail. Each jail is created from a cloned ZFS "base" jail filesystem, so it doesn't take any additional space (except each jail's installed…
What exactly do you mean by "debug mode"? FreeBSD has some standard debugging features during development (-current) and beta stages like WITNESS etc, but those have been disabled for 8-RC1 and later.
I liked this article, especially for the last known picture of RMS when he was shaved, and (more seriously) Stallman's quote at the end. This sums it all up quite well in my opinion.
I've given a quick shot to the previous release. Hammer seems stable, after some days of moderate use. It has nice features too, but it requires a "pruner/reblocker" cron job once in a while that might impact…
Indeed. Especially the serif fonts look awful to me on cleartype. I use Safari for this reason alone.
Each stable version of Debian is maintained for one year after the release of the next. Unless this policy changes, this means that the next releases will be supported for a minimum of three years. If the releases were…
Looks like a nice decision, however I also feel that Debian's problem is the huge freeze of thousands of packages, making the 'stable' ('stale' is better for some) distribution out of date quickly while adding a large…
Every once in a while that a similar license discussion emerges, I see a clear pattern: Many,many people do not understand the GPL. In my opinion, this is the major drawback of the GPL: It's complexity. I've read it a…
Yes, this is an amazing roguelike. My favorite one. Too bad it's sequel (Jade) is still vaporware...
I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned the Amstrad CPC. I got one when I was 11. Here in Europe this machine had amazing market penetration those days (80's-early 90's), especially the 6128 model that featured a…
Since one can easily find comparisons, benchmarks, gotchas etc ( you can always start here: http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/MySQL_vs_PostgreSQL ) the one thing that made me decide in favor of PostgreSQL is this (quoting a…
Unfortunately, here in Greece the situation is so ugly that not even those warnings have any change of convincing people to upgrade. I can imagine most of them simply closing the window. Among the reasons for this is…
The FreeBSD people are rigorously testing LLVM, with the goal to replace GCC as soon as possible (for the base system only). At the moment, the base system compiles and runs for some architectures, as noted in…
For those who want this functionality but use a version of Python older than 2.6, there is a backport of this module: http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/
Interesting. Another nice choice for serving static content is rumored to be thttpd. It lacks any kind of FastCGI support though (it's in the proprietary,premium version). Has anyone had any experiences of thttpd versus…
Yes, this latest trend is pure craziness. Here is a relevant wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
Although at it's current state it is probably useless, it's impressive considering it's a one man project.
When FreeBSD was released, at 27 Feb 2008, Kris Kennaway posted a nice slideshow that includes some PostgreSQL and MySQL benchmarks: http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf Database-wise, they should…
Probably you've heard those words from many others as well, but what about spending money for annoying, non-hackerish stuff like * Building a complete, final product with appropriate documentation, feature matrix etc. *…
If you are going to use it interactively, I strongly suggest you insist in using IPython. Try to read the nice manual first in order to get yourself familiar. It offers autocompletion via the tab key, you can easily…
This should give a nice boost in the already awesome job FreeBSD's developers have done profiling the kernel in the 7.x and 8 branches. Note that DTrace on FreeBSD can only be used for kernel-space probing, for the time…
A valuable resource comparing major scm's that I point people to when they ask me is the FreeBSD project's wiki page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VersionControl Hope it helps. Regarding specifically SVN versus GIT, be sure…
Just when we were contemplating the loss of our beloved linux hater...comes this one. Let's give the guy a warm welcome, shall we? ;-)