My web server is running FreeBSD 5.3 for the past 100 days without any problems. But 5.X isn’t as and fast as 4.X series, hope this will change with the new 6.0 release.

Some major improvment over 5.4:

• Significant performance improvements to the filesystem and direct disk access layers of the OS. The filesystem is now multithreaded and can take full advantage of multiple CPU systems.
• Expanded support for wireless networking adapters and new support for the WPA wireless security protocol.
• Experimental support for the PowerPC platform.

Slashdot covered the story, and most of the feedback from FreeBSD 6.0 beta users was positive:

Today Alriyadh.com opened comments on all articles, instead of articles in the “columns” section only.

In the first day of opening comments the amount of comments posted today tripled the average daily volume.

This means the work on the Internet team will need to work three times harder than they used to be, since all of user comments need to be moderated!

This is a huge step from being just an electronic copy of the printed newspaper, to becoming a real Internet website.

FreeBSD the amazing Operating System running this site got a new logo: More Pictures

For a very beautiful boy.

Say Mashallah

UPDATE: I named him Abdullah 🙂

We’ve just added new services and features to SAUDI NET portal my.saudi.net.sa:

• New prayer times service, with alerts 🙂 , just click setting and add it to your page.
• Two newsfeed: alriyadh.com, and alarabiya.net through RSS.
• New option in the setting for external link target, either to open them in the same page or new one.

Slashdot covers the Simpsons in Arabic.
Link

No tapes or discs any more! It stores 5 hours of DVD quality movies.

http://www.jvc.com/presentations/everio_g/

FreeBSD finally updated the website. I wrote about the new website 10 months ago, I guess it took more than they expected 😉
The new website look modern, but the logo still old.

🙂

MBC will broadcast an Arabic version of the Simpons, Mohammed Heaindi will play Homer Simpson, it will broadcast in Ramadan Month.
Couldn’t wait for it 🙂