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I was installing Autodesk Vault Professional 2017 in the wee hours today, and I noticed the Autodesk Network License Manager was installed in C:\Autodesk\Network License Manager. That’s a bit strange when C:\Autodesk has until now been a temporary location for extracting the setup files. I can confirm moving the files to a saner location like […]

Warning! Your server is on fire! Also, you are out of milk. Ref.: Linux Journal, Issue 267, July 2016, pp. 14-15.

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:

Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi

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.

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 Most documentation, FreeBSD-specific or not, on the internet are more or less outdated.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 Soon this will be outdated too.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.

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.

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.

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.

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) […]

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Autodesk Vault Professional 2017 and Autodesk Network License Manager

Server on fire while running out of milk

C++ draft standard N4604

Fourth law of programming

Loonixes and stuff

FreeBSD has mono

Weekdays missing from `xclock`‘s digital display

Strange storage systems at Dell

`security/ssl-admin` for ordinary SSL/TLS services

Assertion failure in BIND 9.10.4