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I upgraded Subversion 1.8.1 to 1.8.5 on some non-critical FreeBSD servers the other day. Normally I would run this command: portupgrade -fprv devel/subversion I noticed www/serf also needed updating, so this time I ran a command like: portupgrade -fprv www/serf

I came across a blog post by Emil Mikulic on the leap second introduced by the IERS on 1 July 2012. Inspired by Emil Mikulic’s blog post, I created the following short programme.

A student’s Toshiba Satellite laptop equipped with Windows 8 and Secure Boot refused to shut down by simply pressing the power button. The solution is to hold down the Fn button prior to holding down the power button. Keep both buttons depressed until you hear the laptop actually shutting down. Boy, do I love Secure […]

I tried to convince named from dns/bind99, as of r333563, to start automatically at (re)boot on stable/10 and head. My /etc/rc.conf file contains lines like these: named_enable=”YES” named_program=”/usr/local/sbin/named” named_wait=”YES” named_wait_host=”localhost” named_auto_forward=”YES” named_auto_forward_only=”YES” Eventually, I resolved the matter using the following patch: The tabs are missing, so you better apply this patch by hand. It’s not […]

Yesterday turned out to be a sad day. A colleague I continue to hold in high regard was found dead at his home. RIP D.E. :-(

If you receive such an error message from Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014, you might need to reinstall the VBA 7 modules. See http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item/print?siteID=123112&id=21910314&linkID=9242018 for more details. The short story is to shut down Inventor and reinstall the VBA 7 modules using either 3rdParty\x64\VBA\Vba7.MSI or 3rdParty\x86\VBA\Vba7.MSI from the installation media or from C:\Autodesk.

Yesterday I downgraded a student’s laptop from Windows 8 to Windows 7. The student was assigned a legit MS DreamSpark product key in case you were wondering.

I came across this post comparing ZFS to Btrfs. The post is undated and that makes it a bit hard to verify the claims against Btrfs. Although I’m partial towards ZFS, I hope Btrfs catches up. Meanwhile, maybe I should check out Btrfs for myself. Update 2013-12-05: Someone named “sasfater” wrote me an email today […]

I updated my FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT virtual machine today. It reached r255120 and it’s running with vtnet as its virtual network interface under VirtualBox 4.2.16. I noticed the vtnet0 interface gained 10 Gbit/s virtual wire speed. Previously the interface ran with only 1 Gbit/s virtual wire speed. The actual wire speed depends largely on the physical limitations of […]

Here’s a GNU Bison and GNU Flex version of my MMIX assembly language floating point number preprocessor. The code was developed using GNU Bison version 1.875d and GNU Flex version 2.5. This version allows for entering more complex expressions of floating point numbers involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Extending the grammar to cover trigonometric […]

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Trouble upgrading older Subversion on recent FreeBSD? You might be missing devel/scons

Observing leap seconds

Toshiba Satellite laptop, Windows 8, and Secure Boot – what a combination!

Having trouble starting named from dns/bind99 automatically? Here’s how I solved it!

RIP D.E.

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014: VBA failed to initialize. Please restart Inventor.

Samsung rocks — Dell and HP have something to learn

ZFS vs Btrfs

10 Gbit/s virtual wire speed in VirtualBox 4.2.16

MMIX assembly language floating point number preprocessor – GNU Bison and GNU Flex version