Eugenia Loli Archive

Mac OS X provides a kernel extension mechanism as a means of allowing dynamic loading of pieces of code into the kernel, without the need to recompile. These pieces of code are known generically as plug-ins or, in the Darwin kernel, as kernel extensions or KEXTs.

The framework is intentionally designed to support only the basic functionality, as it will ultimately be used to support many RAID controllers. Theo explains, "the functionality supplied is also very basic, almost minimal. But this is done like this on purpose, since we believe that we could support this functionality on all RAID controllers in the same way, without special 'but that controller is so different' mindsets entering the picture. RAID management should (and can be) be no more complicated than ifconfig managing network interfaces."

A lot of hooplah has been distributed by Sun Microsystems on the advantages of their OpenSolaris/Solaris 10 release. Martin C. Brown has been using said software for the past few months and files his review that helps answer the question: has someone finally found a Linux killer?

The latest release of Slackware, 10.2, was just released to the mirrors.

Geeks.com were very generous to send us in one of Sony Ericsson's best sellers: the very popular K700i. We took it for a quick spin and here is our mini-review.

This chapter at InformIT covers the basic operation of PostgreSQL, including naming conventions, creating a database, and indexing.

SCO, the company best known for Linux litigation and its Unix operating systems, reported results for its fiscal third quarter ended July 31, 2005, on Wednesday. The news wasn't good.

The Mandriva developers have released the first (and maybe final) release candidate of Mandriva 2006.

You thought you'd seen it all, but no. Here's the MTV phone: the Motorola e398 ("as seen on MTV" says the sticker on the box). This is a GSM music and video playback phone that was originally targetted at the T-Mobile lineup in Europe but is now sold in the US through Geeks.com. We take a quick look of what to expect of this good-looking device.

Popular Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA's 5.0 version is released by JetBrains. Some of the new features: advanced Css, Html, XHtml, Javascript and JSP support, Integrated Subversion-Perforce support, J2ME developement and a lot of editor-coding related enhancements. IDEA is a commercial product, however they provide free licenses to active Open Source projects.

Authentication auditing is an essential part of protecting Windows computers from intrusion. The big problem in Windows auditing is trying to understand what's going on, without drowning in a flood of irrelevant or useless information. If you let it do so, Windows 2000 will bury you in event notifications. Figuring out what's going on from those notifications can be a real chore. In this Informit.com article, Rick Cook provides specific suggestions to start making your auditing process more informative.

A Windows domain administrator needs to accomplish quite a bit in a given day: map user shares at login, run hardware and software audits; install the new corporate wallpaper (or other such important software). And do it all transparently to the users. Simple, right? It is, if you use a secret weapon: a login script. In this DevSource article, Lynn Greiner demonstrates how the free language, KiXtart, can help you get the job done.

So, how does the news of Apple and DRM change, or not change, your purchasing habits regarding x86 Macs? Let us know by participating in our following poll:

The SCO Group's OpenServer 6 inherits a new kernel from its UnixWare sibling that significantly boosts the product's scalability. Although SCO seems like an unlikely outlet for open-source software, the company has extended OpenServer with updated versions of Samba, Perl, PHP and other key components, and it has given this operating system a more modern interface option.