Search mail archives

Looks like a pretty nice search interface to the FreeBSD mail archives. I've never been that fond of the FreeBSD.org one one, as it never seems to hit very well nor have a very nice UI. This one seemed to work pretty well, and I'll be using it in the future to see how well it works in real use.

Rambler: FreeBSD mail archives search

Of course, don't forget the Google BSD search here.

Users and removable drives

I've talked about having a "normal" user mount floppies, CDs and other removable devices before (here and here too), but here's a very nice in depth tutorial on getting it done too:

User mounting of Removable Devices on FreeBSD

as well, of course, as the FAQ entry for it:

"How do I let ordinary users mount floppies, CDROMs and other removable media?"

More CMS info

I've talked about CMS (Content Management Software) a couple of times before (like here and here) so here's Yet Another Page.  But this one compares and contrasts all the Open Source packages available, and looks like a great overview on the subject.

Updated: As pointed out in the comments, this page only looks at MySQL/PHP CMS systems, not all of them.

OpenSourceCMS - Home

NanoBSD

A cool project to put a small version of BSD out there that will fit on a flash drive. Sort of like a live CD, only for appliances. The flash drive can be as small as 64MB (yup, sixty four megabytes)! You set how big you want it, and bulid it yourself. Neat!

NanoBSD: FreeBSD for appliance use.

Configuration and Tuning

Sometimes, it is good to re-read the Handbook in various places, just to take a little refresher course for the mind. Here's a link to the Configuration and Tuning chapter of the handbook. I often forget where this stuff gets set up, and here it is all explained. Note well the section on crontab and on basic core configuration. It's amazing the subtle bits of information you can pick up by reading through this!

Configuration and Tuning

New Version of Xandros

Xandros 4 was just announced. Xandros is my favorite Linux distro. I was amazed at just how easily it installed and, more importantly, integrated into my Windows network. It really could be my mother's Linux. There isn't an "Open Circulation" version 4 yet. They usually wait a bit before releasing the free version. You can download the OC v3 here though. I highly recommend this distro.

Xandros 4 Home editions

More Free programming books

A great page with links to many classic Computer Science texts that are online:

Classic Texts In Computer Science

Also see Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language, by Brian Kernighan (co-creator of C).