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esrever.c
I had some fun this afternoon, writing a small program that writes its reversed input to output. Beware, this program is not UTF-8 safe. Have fun.
Read More → esrever.cSomeone having fun at the end of the week?
For those of us subscribed to the freebsd-mobile mailling list, some of the more recent postings are both alarming and hilarious, at the expense of George Neville-Neil, a well-known name in the circles of ACM and FreeBSD. See, in received order, messages 1, 2, 3, and 4. I’m sure more will follow. LinkedIn will hopefully […]
Read More → Someone having fun at the end of the week?Upgrading FreeBSD from stable/8 to stable/9, and to stable/10
Update 2015-01-23 Order has once again been restored. I have successfully upgraded 8.4-RELEASE (r251259) to stable/8 r277528, and further to stable/9 r277528, and finally to stable/10 r277559. Update 2015-01-14 Work is underway enabling latest stable/8 to go directly to latest stable/9. All my FreeBSD systems have run stable/something-something, compiled from source, for as long as […]
Read More → Upgrading FreeBSD from stable/8 to stable/9, and to stable/10Missing chroot for dns/bind9{9,10}?
The removal of BIND from base in stable/10 left us with the option of running BIND from ports either in a jail, or as an ordinary service. The old BIND in base was able to run in a chroot environment, isolated from the rest of the system. Some of us believe a chroot is a […]
Read More → Missing chroot for dns/bind9{9,10}?Enabling encrypted swap in stable/10
Enabling encrypted swap has changed in FreeBSD stable/10. I was interested in running AES-XTS with a 256 bit random key and a simulated blocksize of 4096 bytes. I had to change the line in /etc/fstab for the swap partition from to The kernel could then happily report:
Read More → Enabling encrypted swap in stable/10Happy New Year 2015
Happy New Year 2015!
Read More → Happy New Year 2015Merry Xmas 2014
DRADIS contact! Santa’s sleigh inbound. It’s definitely friendly! Have you been a good boy/girl this year? Merry Xmas!
Read More → Merry Xmas 2014Solving conflicts between print/texlive-base and devel/tex-kpathsea
The 20141214 entry in ports/head/UPDATING says: 20141214: AFFECTS: users of TeXLive AUTHOR: hrs@FreeBSD.org Several scripts in print/texlive-base have been moved to devel/tex-kpathsea. Upgrading them can fail because texlive-base depends on tex-kpathsea, and the new ex-kpathsea tries to install files which were installed by the old texlive-base. The following error message indicates this situation: pkg-static: tex-kpathsea-6.2.0_1 […]
Read More → Solving conflicts between print/texlive-base and devel/tex-kpathseagettext 0.19.3 in FreeBSD
devel/gettext, as of version 0.19.3, has been split into three ports: devel/gettext, the meta-port depending the two next ports; devel/gettext-runtime, the runtime libraries; and devel/gettext-tools, the tools for managing the message catalogs. In my case, as I build my own ports, making the transition required manual intervention using both portupgrade and the ports collection tree:
Read More → gettext 0.19.3 in FreeBSDAutoCAD 2015 woes
If AutoCAD 2015 refuse to install, try to uninstall Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable, both 32-bit and 64-bit, and try to reinstall AutoCAD 2015. In one instance was it necessary to uncheck Autodesk ReCap. I really wish there was a simple way to mark only the essential parts necessary for the creation of simple drawings. […]
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