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I had a call from a customer who already uses Kerio Mailserver. He had downloaded a demo of Kerio WinRoute Firewall and said he had a few questions.
This analysis was conceived when the coauthors discovered we'd each been independently seriously tempted to buy a Mac Mini, and realized what that temptation implied.
A comp.unix.shell newsgroup post asked a neophyte question about how to run a script in the background.
When you write data, it doesn't necessarily get written to disk right then. The kernel maintains caches of many things, and disk data is something where a lot of work is done to keep everything fast and efficient.
While browsing Google Labs, I noticed new Firefox extensions.
My very first reaction to GoboLinux was negative. The underlying idea of taming the Unix/Linux file system hierarchy with symbolic links isn't new: heck, SCO did that way back with their 3.2v4.0 release, and for exactly the same reasons (see the Software Storage Objects- SSO section at this link).
There are a number of Mac OS maintenance applications that promise to help you with various tasks. We'll take a quick look at a few of them here.
Let's just get this out of the way first: when someone says cron is not working, it almost always is, and they have just misunderstood something basic.
I have an old Perl project that goes out to a Government web site, ftp's some files, massages them in various ways, and spits out some output. Over time, the project grew, and now does more than it used to.
