pkg2ng – some notes from my experience
The announced EOL of the old pkg_* tools is coming fast. Here are some notes from my experience on converting from the old /var/db/pkg structure to the new SQLite 3 based approach, pkg(ng).
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I have a bunch of FreeBSD VMs running in VirtualBox. They all share a number of virtual harddrives, and among them are a virtual harddrive with the common contents of /var/db/ports. My ports configuration of emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions have the OPENGL and X11 options set. This is useless on some of my simpler VMs, as those VMs […]
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oinkmaster, wget, and HTTPS download of snort rules
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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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 […]
Read More → A private conversation is now a terrorist act!CPUTYPE woes with editors/emacs on FreeBSD/i386 stable/10
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
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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IT i Norge er synonymt med .NET eller Java, og prøver du å hinte til Unix, så ser de på deg som et spørsmålstegn og lurer på hvilken planet du er fra. Noe omskrevet fra: http://www.tu.no/it/2014/06/04/kontraktene-renner-inn-for-it-norge-men-naringen-mangler-20.000-hoder.
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A harddrive as identified below, reported uncorrectable parity/CRC error on two separate occasions this month.
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Det er slemt å tvinge emotakter på folk. Fra et debattinnlegg på GS’ fora, september 2013.
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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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