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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…

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 …

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 …

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 opinio…

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 …

Indeed. Especially the serif fonts look awful to me on cleartype. I use Safari for this reason alone.

Here's my humble opinion too. I'm not a designer, but I hope some points might help. * Make the front page simpler in content, richer in design/graphics: In the front page, I'd put…

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 minimu…

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…

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…

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), especiall…

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 fa…

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 w…

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 so…

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 anyo…

Yes, this latest trend is pure craziness. Here is a relevant wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

Note that the bzip2 implementation he uses is 7zip's; the classic unix implementation does not make use of multiple cores. But, there is also pbzip2, which supposedly uses all avai…

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%20P…

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 appropria…

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 autocomplet…