Interesting news from around the web for 2007-08-28:

Solaris to get a boost on x86 systems thanks to IBM distribution deal - Just when you thought you were safe from Solaris…
Apple iMac and Mac mini Performance Memory Testing for Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, and Core 2 Extreme equipped modelsOtherWorldComputing.com - Mac mini and iMac performance [...]

Categories: Tech Messages

Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., makers of the popular BIND DNS server and INN Usenet server, has announced the End of Life for BIND 8 . I received an email from ISC on this topic earlier in the month, but I wasn’t aware that the EOL was right around the corner. Perhaps the suddenness [...]

Categories: Software

Sometimes it seems like a great idea to receive updates whenever someone commits something to your Subversion repository, right? This has definitely seemed like a good idea to me, but it’s only nice if you work in a small shop with only a few developers. Too many developers make this solution more of [...]

Categories: Programming

Interesting news from around the web for 2007-08-27:

Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems - The complete text is online, but still available for hard copy purchase.
How To Encrypt BitTorrent Traffic | TorrentFreak - Network operators that plan to limit peer-to-peer traffic should be aware of this. Encryption of P2P traffic [...]

Categories: Tech Messages

Somehow I managed to miss the fact that Mac OS Forge released MacPorts v1.5. If you aren’t familiar with MacPorts, it’s the reincarnation of DarwinPorts under the Mac OS Forge / Apple banner. For any UNIX admin, or serious OS X-er, MacPorts is an extensive collection of UNIX tools ported to Mac OS [...]

Categories: Software