FreeBSD boots painfully slow on new servers with Intels Nehalem chipsets. You don't want to wait 180 seconds and more? Here's the solution, just add these two lines to your /boot/loader.conf and the boot time will significantly decrease:
hint.atkbdc.0.disabled="1"
hint.atkbd.0.disabled="1 …
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Haiku
Haiku gets eight studens for GSoC 2011
Felix EhlersHaiku have been allocated eight students for this years Google Summer of Code program. Overall, 417 mentoring organizations applied and 3731 students submitted 5474 proposals. Haiku is proud to be one of 175 accepted mentoring organizations, with 35 submitted proposals and 8 accepted students!
That means, that 8 people are …
DragonFly BSD
DragonFly BSD 2.10 released
Felix EhlersThe 2.10 release supports, thanks to updates of ACPI and APIC interrupt routing support, a much larger variety of hardware and multiprocessor systems than previous releases.
The Hammer Filesystem can now deduplicate volumes overnight in a batch process and during live operation. For estimation of space savings for existing …
Nginx
Nginx 1.0 released
Felix EhlersAfter nine years of development nginx reaches version 1.0.0 which is now the latest stable version and ready for production. Version 0.8.54 is now the newest legacy stable version. A complete list of changes since it's first public release from Oct 2004 is available.
Nginx is …
Apple
Enable screen sharing via ssh on Snow Leopard
Felix EhlersImagine the following scenario: You can't connect with VNC to your iMac/Mac Mini that runs Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The Screen Sharing service is not enabled. Anyway Remote Login (ssh) is available. What can you do?
Well, you can just start the Service via ssh with:
$ sudo touch …