Month: March 2014

Career advice

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My advice is to switch careers from programming to ditch digging (where at least at the end of the day you will know you did something). From: George V. Neville-Neil. 2014. This is the foo field. Commun. ACM 57, 4 (April 2014), 30-31. DOI=10.1145/2580942 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2580942.

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Coping with portupgrade’s inability to handle new dependencies

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I grew tired of handholding portupgrade because of the latter’s inability to handle new dependencies. The script below is the result of my frustration. The script is available for downloading at http://ximalas.info/~trond/create-zfs/canmount/upgrade-outdated-ports.sh.

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Digitale analfabeter

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Tja, ungene lærer nok ofte å bli forbrukere av digital teknologi, heller enn å mestre den. Se bare på hva digitale analfabeter velger: Apple. Fordi det er enkelt å forstå. Fra: http://blog.lindso.no/sperre-tilgangen-til-intenettet-i-klasserommet/#comment-1208038855.

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Decoding darkstat’s export format

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While pondering why darkstat all of a sudden shows corrupted timestamps when running on FreeBSD/amd64 stable/9, I wrote a small program to decode the export format. The program is available using svn co svn://svn.ximalas.info/darkstattype or http://svnweb.ximalas.info/darkstattype/. The license is the 2-clause BSD license.

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WITHOUT_NEW_XORG=yes → true

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I’m probably not paying enough attention to new developments in FreeBSD after all. After updating the installed ports in my VMs running base/head and base/stable/10, X11 stopped working. It turns out the new version of X.org requires KMS and what not in the kernel. This doesn’t fare well with VMs running inside VirtualBox. The solution? […]

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Your own virtualized desktop FreeBSD lab

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If you’re like me, eager to test new stuff in FreeBSD, you might as well run a virtualized FreeBSD laboratory on your desktop. I use Oracle VirtualBox, but you might as well use Microsoft Hyper-V, real hardware, or some other contraption. Couple this with ZFS and boot environments, and you’re even able to rapidly revert […]

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