Category Archives: Computing

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The Future of the NetBSD Project

Posted on 3 September, 2006 by Matthias Scheler

Charles M. Hannum, a former NetBSD developer, sent out an e-mail earlier this week which resulted in various discussions e.g. on Slashot about the future of NetBSD. A fellow worker who had read the article even asked me straight whether … Continue reading →

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First test of the Mac Pro

Posted on 21 August, 2006 by Matthias Scheler

Issue 18/2006 of the c’t magazine contains a quick test of the Mac Pro. The machine is faster than the old Quad Power Mac G5 (if running native software) but consumes only 223W instead of 340W at full load. It’s … Continue reading →

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PHP – Pretty Hopeless Programming language?

Posted on 14 August, 2006 by Matthias Scheler

I’ve updated a package of the NetBSD package source collection today. The package contains a PHP application which surprisingly required a security fix. And I have committed a lot of security updates for PHP based packages to package source recently. … Continue reading →

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