I'm getting a bit cheesed off with the lack of FreeBSD support by ATI. There is GL support from the open source community for the older Radeons, but nothing as yet for the Radeon 9500+.

If everone takes a minute to visit the ATI Linux driver feedback page and lets them know that there is a demand for a FreeBSD driver (especially since they already have a Linux driver available), then maybe we can get some support.

For those of you dual booting an X-Windows machines with Windows, read on for a couple of scripts to make your like a bit easier.

On Wednesday, 25th February 2004, the FreeBSD team announced the release of their latest New Technology Release: 5.2.1.

View the FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE:

• Announcement
• Installation Guide
• Release Notes
• Hardware Notes
• Errata
• Early Adopter's Guide

I've updated my GDM installation to the latest version (2.4.4.3) from ports, and the keyboard no longer responds!

A bit of research shows that it is due to GDM taking over a VT that getty has already grabbed for itself, unfortunately, the directives in the GDM config file are only applicable to Linux.

As a workaround, I enabled GDM in /etc/ttys and disabled the startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.

The problems that used to occur when starting GDM in this way no longer occur, so for now, this seems like the way to get it working.

Pre-orders for the <a href="http://www.OpenBSD.org>OpenBSD</a> project's latest release, 3.4, are now being taken. This release will ship around November 1st.

Significant enhancements have been made in this release, including i386 switch to ELF executable format, further W^X improvements for i386, ld.so on ELF platforms now loads libraries in a random order for greater resistance to attacks, inclusion of a static bounds checker to the compiler for basic checks on functions which accept buffers and sizes, strcpy/strcat function audit to replace with safer strlcpy/strlcat, ProPolice stack protection in the kernel, further manual page cleanups, large number of bug fixes and optimizations to the packet filter (PF) including packet tagging, stateful TCP normalization, passive OS detection, SYN proxy, and adaptive state timeouts, and many other improvements to the rest of the system.

Order a CD from the OpenBSD store:
http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html

For information on this release including new features:
http://www.openbsd.org/34.html

For a changelog between 3.3 and 3.4:
http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html

Ordering a CD helps support the project, as a bonus you get cool stickers, artwork, and an audio track!

FreeBSD 5.1 is now out! Read the release notes here.

If you've got a fast connection, you can grab it from a local mirror or BitTorrent, otherwise, I've got CDs available for + postage for the 2 CD set (installation & rescue disc).

Whoot, new laptop for me, and to take advantage of this beautiful 1400x1050, I figured I might as well learn how to enable subpixel rendering - its easy!

Do you keep your website in CVS and check it out to your server? If so, unless you have taken special security precautions, you are exposing information.

XFree86 4.3.0 is finally in the ports collection for FreeBSD. You can find it in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/.

After reading this article by Daniel Hartmeier, I've applied the same concepts to FreeBSD. The end result is that you can max out your outbound bandwidth without (majorly) affecting your incoming bandwidth.