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Server on fire while running out of milk
Warning! Your server is on fire! Also, you are out of milk. Ref.: Linux Journal, Issue 267, July 2016, pp. 14-15.
Read More → Server on fire while running out of milkC++ draft standard N4604
I just learned about the new C++ draft standard N4604. I read Section 16.8 “Predefined macro names” and created this little test program to assess the compilers available:
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Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi
Read More → Fourth law of programmingLoonixes and stuff
Our product is broken, so just tell the OS not to use the broken feature and hey presto you’re a winner! Now stop bugging us with your Loonixes and stuff. Ref.: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fstrim/+bug/1449005/comments/53.
Read More → Loonixes and stuffFreeBSD has mono
C♯ and mono are both a blessing and a curse. Most documentation, FreeBSD-specific or not, on the internet are more or less outdated. Maybe I was looking in the wrong places. It was really frustrating. Soon this will be outdated too. Start by adding lang/mono. Then add x11-toolkits/libgdiplus.
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I noticed the weekdays was missing from xclock‘s digital display when run in FreeBSD base/head aka 11.0-ALPHA6. FreeBSD stable/10 doesn’t have this problem.
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Strange storage systems at Dell
I’m in the process of readying a brand new Dell Precision 7710. I’m close to completion. The only thing I’m missing is a driver for the nVidia Quadro M4000M GPU.
Read More → Strange storage systems at Dellsecurity/ssl-admin for ordinary SSL/TLS services
I came across Dan Langille post on security/ssl-admin and figured I should try it before my old certificates expires later in 2016. ssl-admin exists mainly for managing OpenVPN certificates, and with some tweaking you can make it work for ordinary SSL/TLS services.
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Assertion failure in BIND 9.10.4
Update 2016-05-29: BIND 9.10.4-P1 is out and available as dns/bind910 as of r415882 in the FreeBSD ports tree. Two of our name servers crashed in two different places within the Red-Black tree code of BIND 9.10.4: general: rbt.c:2765: INSIST(sibling != ((void *)0)) failed, back trace #0 0x1880b in ?? general: exiting (due to assertion failure) […]
Read More → Assertion failure in BIND 9.10.4MySQL 5.7.12 refusing to run due to innodb_system data file ‘/var/db/mysql/ibdata1’ being too small
One of my MySQL 5.7.12 instances refused to start after upgrading to FreeBSD’s MySQL port version 5.7.12_1, claiming: 2016-05-18T11:03:26.688719Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: The Auto-extending innodb_system data file ‘/var/db/mysql/ibdata1’ is of a different size 4864 pages (rounded down to MB) than specified in the .cnf file: initial 8192 pages, max 0 (relevant if non-zero) pages! “Googling” […]
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