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oinkmaster, wget, and HTTPS download of snort rules

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oinkmaster started complaining like this the other day: Order was restored once again by adding the following line to .wgetrc in roots home directory: This is not the proper way of handling HTTPS security, but it gets the job done. Previously we used HTTP access for downloading our snort rules, and it’s only recently we […]

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A private conversation is now a terrorist act!

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Welcome to the United States of Earth. It is now a terrorist act to have a private conversation! And if saying so will get us arrested, pick me first! It will not change my participation level until my computer is forcefully taken away from me. (In Norwegian also known as “Amerikas forenklete stater,” “The Simplified […]

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CPUTYPE woes with editors/emacs on FreeBSD/i386 stable/10

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On my FreeBSD/i386 stable/10 and head VMs I have set up clang as the system compiler. I have also set CPUTYPE to corei7 as this is accepted by clang and pretty much describes the capabilities of the host system.

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Feedback forms on the web and stupid web programming

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I filled out a feedback form on the web only to realise what a terrible job the web programmers had done. After I clicked on the submit button, the webserver was kind enough to send a copy of my complaint to my email address. The sad thing is that the email address I’d entered in […]

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NSA’s paranoia

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There are enemies out there and they’ve made us so paranoid that we’re willing to risk making enemies of our allies. From: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/german-chancellor-amongst-list-of-nsas-list-of-high-value-targets/?comments=1&post=26558191#comment-26558191.

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Using GraphViz to visualize the runtime dependencies of the installed ports

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If you’re curious to find out how all your installed ports depend upon each other, you might want to run this neat, little script saving its output to a file, and install graphics/graphviz.

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Books shipped from Amazon to you

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Make sure to request additional wrapping, if possible, when ordering books from Amazon. If not, your books might attack each other in transit. The result can sometimes be devastating. Amazon US failed miserably when shipping four books last month, while their UK counterparts, around the same time, managed to wrap each of the two books […]

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Parallel build of mail/thunderbird in FreeBSD?

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Update 2014-08-07: r363978, dated Mon Aug 4 09:11:25 2014 UTC, solves the parallel build bug once and for all, and there’s no need for the Makefile.local as shown below. I’ve been scratching my head over why mail/thunderbird doesn’t build in parallel when www/firefox does. Research reveals MAKE_JOBS_SAFE was removed last August, in r324744. I can’t […]

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