Month: May 2011
Epson DiscProducer PP-100N and Total Disc Net Administrator 1.21
Last year at work we acquired an Epson DiscProducer PP-100N as an aid for creating in-house CDs and DVDs. No more manual labour other than creating the ISO images and designing the layouts to be printed on the disc’s surfaces, and yes, placing the finished discs in their paper envelopes or jewel cases.
Read More → Epson DiscProducer PP-100N and Total Disc Net Administrator 1.21How to forcefully upgrade all your FreeBSD ports using portupgrade
When moving from one major FreeBSD branch to another, you are almost compelled to upgrade all of your installed FreeBSD ports. If you move from the RELENG_7 branch to RELENG_8, as an example, the old pty interface is deprecated, and ports such as screen (sysutils/screen) must be recompiled and reinstalled to take advantage of the […]
Read More → How to forcefully upgrade all your FreeBSD ports using portupgradeHow to turn off Speed Dial in Opera
Sometimes new features are more annoying than useful. It gets even worse when you find no obvious way of disabling said features. In my case, Opera’s Speed Dial (Hurtigvalg in Norwegian) is such an example. Here’s how you turn off Speed Dial in Opera.
Read More → How to turn off Speed Dial in OperaRestricting NTP access
Here’s what I use in /etc/ntp.conf. The restrict lines below originated from Ubuntu. The iburst and maxpoll 9 settings are necessary in FreeBSD to avoid ntpd switching between PLL and FLL modes every now and then.
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