Monthly Archives: November 2008

Textpattern is still alive!

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THE SHOCK. I thought it was dead 😆

If you don’t know wtf is this, here’s brief introduction to Textpattern from Wikipedia:

Textpattern is an open source content management system originally developed by Dean Allen. While it is often listed among weblogging tools, its aim is to be a high-quality general-purpose content management system suitable for deployment in many contexts. Textpattern is written in PHP using a MySQL database backend, and versions from “gamma” 1.19 through 4.0.x are distributed under the GNU General Public License; however, future versions beginning with 4.1 will be distributed under the BSD license[1]. The current stable version is Textpattern 4.0.7

So…

Basically it’s yet-another-CMS. Since I like experimenting with various CMS, this one hit my interest several months ago. It kinda turned me off though since it’s not easy to extend (plugins/skins wise – both find and usage).

What’s special about this? It uses Textile and guess what, it’s used by Neko Nyan Liberation 😆

Maybe I’ll try this again someday…

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29MB audio player

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I lied, it's more than 29MB

Okay, it’s not the audio (media) player but the dependency. But hey, foobar2000 can be installed on a fresh Windows XP (and above) install without any extra addition with 2MB installer. Or if you prefer Winamp, it only weighs 10MB.

And the dependency (freepats), um, why does an audio (media) player need synthesizer?

Note that I won’t use the video player functionality since I doubt it supports .ass (or does it? AFAIK the only media player that kinda-properly support it is mplayer and its frontends)

FreeBSD 6.4 Released

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Hmm, when will 7.1 be released? 🙁

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE. At this time 6.4-RELEASE is expected to be the last of the 6-STABLE releases. Some of the highlights:

  • New and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client
  • Support for the Camellia cipher
  • boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices with GPT-enabled BIOSes
  • DVD install ISO images for amd64/i386
  • KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3
  • Updates for BIND, sendmail, OpenPAM, and others

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Fedora 10 Released

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I’ve been (kinda) waiting for this since morning, lol.

Feature highlights:

The following are major features for Fedora 10:

  • Wireless connection sharing enables ad hoc network sharing — http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConnectionSharing
  • Better setup and use of printers through improved management tools — http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterPrinting
  • Virtualization storage provisioning for local and remote connections now simplified — http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtStorage
  • SecTool is a new security audit and intrusion detection system — http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SecurityAudit
  • RPM 4.6 is a major update to the powerful, flexible software management libraries — http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RPM4.6

Some other features in this release include:

  • Glitch free audio and better performance is achieved through a rewrite of the PulseAudio sound server to use timer-based audio scheduling — http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GlitchFreeAudio
  • Improved webcam support — http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport
  • Better support for infrared remote controls makes them easier to connect and work with many applications — http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterLIRCSupport
  • The paths /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin have been added to the PATH for normal users, to simplify command-line administration tasks — http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SbinSanity
  • The online account service provides applications with credentials for online accounts listed on http://online.gnome.org or stored in GConf — http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OnlineAccountsService

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