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Network Administration with FreeBSD 7
Network Administration with FreeBSD 7 is the book that I have been working on for past year. And now it is published by Packt and is available for purchase from various bookstores. This book is something that I have been looking for since I started with FreeBSD back in 1997. I needed a... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Webkit passes ACID 3 test
I accidentally noticed today that my recent WebKit nightly 31667 passes ACID3 test flawlessly. Kudos to WebKit team for their great browser! Read more...
Published 3 months ago
What's New in FreeBSD 7.0
I came across this interesting article about upcoming FreeBSD 7 that outlines some of the most important changes in this release. The upcoming release of FreeBSD 7 is a major milestone for all FreeBSD developers and users. It is the most amazing release I have ever had the chance to play with.... Read more...
Published 4 months ago
Depenguinator, A great tool for the Linux enthusiasts
Colin Percival (The original author of freebsd-update and binary diff), spent a few hours to resurrect the dead Depenguinator from ashes. Using Depenguinator 2.0, you can remotely upgrade a happily living Linux system to the latest version of FreeBSD. To me its extremely useful when upgrading a... Read more...
Published 5 months ago
New theme
Yes, Finally I did it. I was quite unhappy with the old theme, and I was also not using the cutting edge features such as Tags, Widgets, etc. So here you are: The new theme. I will definitely update it in a few days to make it look better. Read more...
Published 8 months ago
Interesting new features in Leopard
Now that Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is due to be released in 26 October, everyone is curious to see what is new in this version and upgrade as soon as its released. Among the many new features, there has been a few of them that seemed interesting to me: Create Instruments with DTrace Monitor system... Read more...
Published 9 months ago
FreeBSD 8
Finally RELENG_7 is born and the HEAD is now 8.0-CURRENT. I just finished upgrading two of my development boxes to the latest HEAD: # uname -a FreeBSD shaun.farrokhi.net 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #10: Sun Oct 14 11:33:16 IRST 2007 root@shaun.farrokhi.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SERVER... Read more...
Published 9 months ago
Roundcube webmail on FreeBSD
If you haven't seen roundcube webmail yet, it's an eye-candy web based email client based on IMAP protocol. The project has not released version 1.0 yet after two years but being actively developed. If you are interested, there is also a trac website available for the project. I used to create... Read more...
Published 10 months ago
State of IPv6 from an end-user perspective
IPv6 has been around for a few years now. Your Windows, Mac OS X, [put your favorite OS name here] supports IPv6 very well. Everyone knows IPv6 is cool! It solves your problems. From an engineering point of view, IPv6 is an excellent protocol. It is well suited for our today internet. But it is... Read more...
Published 12 months ago
FreeBSD 7.0 LiveCD
Ivan Voras has done a very good job by putting together a FreeBSD 7.0 based LiveCD. The CD contains a very recent 7.0 installation + ZFS patches (usable!) and XFCE 4.2. I spent half an hour to try the LiveCD and it worked fine for me on two different boxes. I am sure Ivan is planning to bundle a... Read more...
Published 12 months ago
Mac Browsers
For a while, I have been switching browsers on Mac on a daily basis. 1- Safari is a very nice and polished browser, but has major problems with internationalized pages and crashes once in a while. Does not support plug-ins. Not my preferred browser at all. Excellent for simple searches and... Read more...
Published 1 years ago
ATI or nVidia - The Unix Way
I have always been an ATI fan since nVidia did not exist. And so far it served well on my workstations. I don't even care that they are part of AMD now. However, something that was annoying me for a while was ATI's driver which seems to not as good as nVidia's in *nix, especially for their newer... Read more...
Published 1 years ago
