I have a firewall that’s running FreeBSD 4.11. I’m planning to upgrade to 5.4 tonight. The backups are running (via Bacula [of course!]) now. I installed 5.4 on a separate HDD a few weeks ago, but have not copied over the configuration files etc. I’ll have to do that tonight. I’ll be documenting what is …
I’ve been using a customized version of Phorum for some time. It has served me well over the years, including an article feedback module I created. Tonight, it bit me. The host field is limited to 50 characters. Never mind that FQDN can be much longer than that. That’s the only poor design decision I’ve …
I recently became interested in customizing some of the news feeds for FreshPorts. Specifically, I wanted to allow users to have a news feed for their watch list (that’s the list of software they want to track). The existing news feed is already the most popular item on the website. It accounts for over 13% …
I suspect spammers are paying people to post messages to my forums in The FreeBSD Diary. I started blocking them by IP address, but I quickly bored of that. Then I started required people to register before posting. That stopped them.
It has been nearly three months since my last post. Let me change that now. BSDCan 2005 was a roaring success. We had 197 people, up from 175 last year. We had lots of compliments, and hints of corporate sponsorship. People came from 15 different countries including 26 from outside North America. That’s pretty impressive. …
I am the DLT King. Over the past month or so, I’ve really gotten into DLT drives for doing backups. Within the next week or so, I should have my backups running smoothly on a DLT 7000. More, later.
I saw the recent release of WordPress. Rather than upgrade, I restarted. The old blog is gone. It was just one post anyway.