Matt Asay has offered a rather strange post noting that if history had been different the roles of IBM and Microsoft would be reversed. If history were different I’d be George Clooney. It’s not. This is Clooney’s good fortune. Matt’s point is that, in future work, Microso...

Our own Matt Asay can’t talk about this (he’s an executive with one of the players) but Ingres and Alfresco think they can build a real competitor to SharePoint. (The original image lives at Wikimedia.) Matt has been writing about SharePoint “lock-in” for years. Partnering ...

DB2 support for Django is coming. From IBM, under the Apache 2.0 License. I’m not sure if this makes it hard to bundle it with the rest of Django, which uses the BSD license....

VirtualBox is a great way to test out new operating systems, without having to configure your machine to dual-boot. You can even install Windows 7 on VirtualBox. There are two ways to obtain free operating systems for VirtualBox: using virtual disk images (VDIs) or actual installation disks. Downloa...

Can someone give me any pointers, tips, or caveats about installing BSD on sun hardware for use as a firewall/router? I've been pondering a while about installing OpenBSD on an old Sun Netra T1. I plan to use it as a firewall/router using pf and maybe squid and Proxy on it. I used to have an old Net...

I have BSD and Mepis installed in 2 different partitions on the same hard drive. Linux is installed on /ad0s5. BSD is installed on /ad0s1a, which is the first partition. Currently, my boot options are F1 BSD and F3 DOS (which doesn't even exist). How do I get BSD to give me the choice of booting to ...

hi everyone, I hope you don't mind me posting these 2 or 3 little questions in 1 post but because they are so basic I didn't want to flood the forum with my newbie topics. Firstly my sound, when loading KDE, amarok etc I do not get any unable to intilize sound or anything, However nothing comes out ...

Hi, Now a days My Free BSD Server gets hanged , and I need to hard reboot the same. Free BSD Version is 7: Kindly let me know is it a Hardware or OS Issues. I found below messages at /var/log/mesages Jan 22 12:46:48 tahi-bsd login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 Jan 22 12:47:41 tahi-bsd fsck: /dev/ad0s1...

If you’re not a political junkie you didn’t know this, but last week an important part of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy went dark. Soapblox, a proprietary CMS which hosts about 100 left-wing blogs (mainly state operations running on a shoestring) fell to a hack attack on January 7 and we...

Anders Magnusson (ragge@) wrote in, The first step of the development of PCC made possible by donations via BSD Fund is complete and I would like to invite people to start testing PCC more heavily. Some of the changes have been quite substantial and I may have introduced some new bugs. I think the s...