src.conf on FreeBSD 7 for the average installation
If we consider common available technology and the average use of a FreeBSD installation as desktop or server then I think these are sensible defaults for /etc/src.conf under FreeBSD 7. WITHOUT_ATM=yes...
View ArticleSlow Terminal with xfce, alpha channel issues
I recently switched to using xfce on my FreeBSD desktop. Window Maker is nice but it was starting to feel a bit dated. Thus far I like xfce, but I had one problem with Terminal. Whenever I tried to...
View ArticleCharacter encoding in mailcap for mutt and w3m
I use mutt on my FreeBSD system to read my mail. To read HTML mail I simply use a .mailcap file with an entry such as text/html; w3m -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput This in effect...
View ArticleZotero and PDF indexing on FreeBSD
For a while now I have been using Zotero on Firefox to handle researching topics. It also allows PDF indexing, but for this you need to set some things up first. Start by installing xpdf from ports,...
View ArticleTinyMCE in WordPress 2.7.1 not working on FreeBSD?
Discovered today that with both Firefox 3.0 and Opera 9.63 on FreeBSD, TinyMCE within WordPress 2.7.1 is not allowing me to use the visual editing mode. I tried the example of TinyMCE and it works...
View Articlesendfile() mishandling
As I said in http://www.in-nomine.org/2009/02/22/tinymce-in-wordpress-271-not-working-on-freebsd/ I had problems making TinyMCE work. After some digging I discovered that the tiny_mce.js file was being...
View ArticleFreeBSD 7 to FreeBSD 8 update quite painless
So last night I updated my machine to the latest FreeBSD 7-STABLE and from there updated to FreeBSD 8-STABLE (although it’s named PRERELEASE still in the repository). Aside from some minor kernel...
View ArticleMercurial 1.7, cacerts, and FreeBSD
So with recent Mercurial 1.7 releases HTTPS support was tightened, so you are bound to encounter a warning in the form of: warning: bitbucket.org certificate not verified (check web.cacerts config...
View ArticleFreeBSD, p0f, and USB pcap
If, like me, you had a working FreeBSD system with amavisd-new and p0f set up, you might find that p0f suddenly stopped working at some point. The cause for this is that it tries to use pcap on the USB...
View ArticleUnbound unable to read root zone
After upgrading various ports on my FreeBSD system and days later a full world and kernel, a reboot showed me that unbound didn’t start. The system reported that: error: reading root hints...
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