Today's pet peeve is the stupidity of Apple's Installer packages. Stupid? Yes, stupid. I keep applications on a second partition away from the System installation. Much like I have separate root ( / ) and app ( /usr ) partitions on my FreeBSD system. Since by default, Mac OS X uses the System disk for swap space, this means it's best to keep as much free space on that partition as possible if you intend to do heavy lifting with your Mac (like compiling Songbird and other apps) and hit swap. So with the applications on another partition, I put a symbolic ...
Operating Systems
Pet Peeve of the Day: Apple's Installer Packages
Written by on June 10, 2009 in Operating Systems.
FreeBSD 6 and AM2 GEFORCE 6100-405 Motherboards
Written by on June 5, 2007 in Operating Systems.
So the cheap AM2 boards based upon NVidia's GeForce 6100-405 (MCP61S) are not very well supported by FreeBSD 6 Stable out of the box.
So I purchased a mainland produced Lemel LM-MN61S motherboard with a new dual-core AMD Athlon64x2 3800+. A generic FreeBSD 6 Stable kernel failed to recognise the onboard NIC or the sound card and failed to recognise the ATA chips as anything but generic ATA controllers. Fairly limiting on the base functionality of the board, especially given that it only has two standard PCI slots. So to address the limitations, you'll have to find the ...
