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FreeBSD – Tips to prepare large ports installation

Posted on January 10th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Ports gets it's sources from internet. If the sources is big or there are multiple tens of sources, the tendency to fail in the mid of the ports installation increases.

Scenario 1:
Bumpy internet broadband internet connection, like mine, will disconnect halfway when downloading big files (> 10 MB)

Scenario 2:
Large ports that depends on tens if not hundreds

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FreeBSD – Ports is fetching from slow servers

Posted on January 8th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Ports randomly gets it's source server list from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk, as defined by the port maintainer. But the top 1st choice of the list may not be the one physically near to us and thus the download speed is much desirable. Most of the time compiling ports doesn't necessary takes a long time (like my 3 years AMD athlon 1.8Ghz

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Gimp – How to convert background of logo or picture into transparency

Posted on January 7th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Gimp stands for "GNU Image Manipulation Program", which is an open source image editing problem. It's capability often compare to professional software but fortunately, Gimp acceptance as Pro image editing software is getting better. Even so, Gimp is still popular among beginner up to hobbyist user.

Gimp's available on multiple platform and since it is open source, you

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FreeBSD – How to check swap space or partition info

Posted on January 5th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Use the command :

swapinfo

Specified the parameter "-h" to convert the bytes to "h"uman readable form :

swapinfo -h

Sayonara !!!

Release: PBI Builder 2.5

Posted on January 4th, 2010 by "pc-bsd news feeds" from "PC-BSD News Feeds"

The PBI Builder software has been updated to version 2.5 for both the 7.x and 8.x series. This release contains...

FreeBSD – ports install Exim email server with patch error

Posted on January 4th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Learned another thing today. The ports tree is just a repository of available software, it can be deleted & regenerated. Why would some one wants to delete the ports tree? It needed to be delete and regenerated because some patch was downloaded incorrectly and the problem stubbornly persists.

Sample of the error :

===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for exim-4.71

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FreeBSD – Ports complain about Checksum Mismatch error

Posted on January 1st, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

File integrity checking has been built in for ports, checksum of file. Comparing checksum of a file is automatically done when ports is going to extract the compress file. It's a important process to make sure that the file downloaded are not altered in anyway, be it missing bits during download or some one maliciously change the contents of the

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Security Advisory: SSL, RTLD & FreeBSD Update

Posted on December 2nd, 2009 by "pc-bsd news feeds" from "PC-BSD News Feeds"

PC-BSD Security Advisory Name: SSL, RTLD and freebsd-update security fixesDate: 12-03-2009Size: 1MB Description: This...

PC-BSD security update (devfs)

Posted on October 5th, 2009 by "pc-bsd news feeds" from "PC-BSD News Feeds"

A security update for PC-BSD 7.1.1 has been released today. This update fixes a potential privilege escalation attack withdevfs /...

Open Source in Recessions

Posted on July 12th, 2009 by "Murray Stokely" from "Murray's FreeBSD Notes"

In general, recessions can be really good for open source. Large businesses look to cut back on IT budgets and this often involves re-evaluating whether proprietary software and maintenance contracts are necessary, given high quality open source alternatives. Companies may dedicate more internal resources to open source projects, and also the surplus of underemployed engineering talent in the market may

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