Dru Lavigne finally had a chance to upgrade her home systems to FreeBSD 5.3. Here are her working notes for both a fresh install and an upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3.
It is interesting to note that FreeBSD developers are giving consideration to phasing out sysinstall in favor of a new install program for FreeBSD. A Journaling FS like ReiserFS also seems to be on the cards for future FreeBSD releases, Kerneltrap reports.
Geek is defined by Dictionary.com as 'A person who is single-minded or accomplished in a scientific or technical pursuit'. Many of us either acknowledge ourselves as computer geeks or are labeled by Friends, Family, and/or Colleagues as the such. This is not a condescending statement and should not be taken in a negative connotative way. It is in fact an admiration of our technical skills and abilities.
Despite recent calls from customers and analysts, none of the security fixes built into Windows XP SP2 will be back-ported to Windows 2000, still in use by a majority of enterprises. But what about those organizations that can't afford to upgrade?
Thunderbird 1.0 is Mozilla’s next generation e-mail client rate it here. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry’s best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, saved search folders, builtin RSS support, privacy protection and much more. Elsewhere, Evolution 2.0.3 was released too (rate it here).
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Microsoft and Sun Microsystems last week issued a progress report on the technical truce the companies called this year but gave little indication of what specific fixes they would devise to address customers' problems.
The 10.1 Official is now available as CDs or DVD on a number of FTP mirrors and through Bittorrent. Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official new features are available online.
As you might already know, FreeSBIE is a LiveCD based on the FreeBSD Operating system, or even easier, a FreeBSD-based operating system that works directly from a CD, without touching your hard drive. Today, FreeSBIE 1.1 is released.
LinuxCertified.com offers a solution for the users who require ultimate mobility: the LC2100 laptop loaded with the Linux of your choice. For more info and screenshots/images, read more.
The Facade pattern puts up a new interface — that is, a facade — in front of the original system. In this sample book chapter, you'll learn when to apply it, and how to do so. Elsewhere, this chapter provides an overview of Unified Modeling Language (UML), a graphical language for modeling businesses, software applications, and system architectures.
The Users & Computers snap-in for Active Directory enables you to create Organizational Units (OUs) to set up an OUT Tree in the domain. This chapter coves setting up and managing OUs.
