SGI is apparently like heroine
When you have a chance to use some truely nice technology, you just want more. So, a few weeks ago I was handed, gratis, a purple Indigo^2 Extreme, a 20″ Silicon Graphics monitor and a Silicon Graphics...
View ArticleThe 10 Commandments (of IMAP clients)
It seems the people over at University of Washington have a silly side. The Ten Commandments of implementing IMAP clients.
View ArticleSeen on IRC
<Xaimus> UFS, the Unholy File System, is the native file system of FreeBSD. The most prominent feature of UFS is called ‘Soft-updates’, which achieves high levels of file I/O performance at the...
View ArticleYour chain is only as strong as its weakest link
In an effort to spare others the pain that I’ve gone through in the past week, here are some helpful pointers for avoiding giving an attacker an “easy” way in to your systems. Don’t assume that because...
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FreeNX: cool. VMWare: cool. Another project: cool.
I’ve been wanting, for a while now, to set up a FreeNX server on my linux box at home, and another on my linux box at work. I’d like to get both my home and work linux systems to the point where it...
View ArticleThree useful Mac tips
So I wanted to keep my PowerBook from automatically mounting the backup drive if I happen to have it connected, and went trowelling through macosxhints.com to see what I could dig up. I can’t remember...
View ArticleGallery online!
Well, I’m not sure what’s been changed on the server yet, but I finally have Gallery2 up and running at gallery.unnerving.org. I suspect that Apache’s mod_security was getting in the way, and it might...
View ArticleApple to use ZFS as “the” filesystem for OS X 10.5?
That seems to be the scuttlebutt, based on information from various execs at Sun. Apparently Apple’s been so interested in ZFS because they’re planning on making it the default filesystem in OS X...
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