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I’ve got some new gadgets and I am planning to write some reviews on them. This includes Panasonic RPHC100 Noise-Canceling Headphones (yes, it works flawlessly), SonyEricsson K700i handset and Sony Ericsson Akono HBH-600 Bluetooth handsfree.

I am currently experiencing them, and its a bit soon to make a review.

I feel I am getting a bit like SilverOrange people. They review whatever they like, ranging from shoes to wide-screen cinema displays. I really like their reviews.

Awful. Everyday people learn new ways to show that something is going worng.
I got this error while I was trying to download a small file from sourceforge:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 51000 bytes) in Unknown on line 0

You judge.

I have just installed DragonFlyBSD 1.0 on my home pc (under a virtual machine).

It looks very neat. Installer looks very good and is very easy while it is very configurable. Boot process is much like FBSD 5.x, except that elf deamon ASCII art has changed to DragonFly mascot. syslogd is disabled by default, while nfs client is enabled. Default perl interpreter is version 5.005 ( I expected it to be 5.6 ). And the installer CD does not include the source code. You have to cvsup it by yourself.

Since it is installed in a virtual machine (MS Virtual PC 2004, because I had no VMware installed), I can not perform real world tests. I will install it on a standalone machine and will post my observations as soon as I test it.

Many thanks to DragonFly team for their excellent job.

Don’t miss this year’s SysAdmin day. ( Celebrated annually on last Friday of July )

Most networkers I met consider themselves as security professionals.
This is very unfortunate. I found most of them sort of people who don