Dante`s Unix Blog

Frank Pohlmann explains (very nice if you ask me) the reasons for choosing FreeBSD over other operating systems here. This doesn’t mean you should use FreeBSD if another operating systems soots your needs better.

Until recently I’ve been using Kmail as mail client together with SpamAssassin as a spam fight solution, but the problem was that spamassassin freeze KMail while it scans the messages. After a little bit of research I’ve decided to switch to bogofilter (which plays very nice with KMail and it doesn’t freeze it). Installing bogofilter was as easy as :

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At work I have a Desktop PC : 4GB Ram , quad core , etc (which is much more powerful than my laptop) , with FreeBSD. On my laptop I also have FreeBSD but sometimes I need to access remotely my desktop PC. Until now ssh -X was a solution but not an elegant one, so I’ve decided to use a VNC solution. After a little research on google I found TightVNC and decided to give it a try…

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After google-ing a little bit for a system monitor solution I have decided to go with conky. The installation, on my FreeBSD 6.3 desktop, was as simple as :

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/conky/ && make install clean

After the port was installed all I needed to to was to edit .conkyrc as following :

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I have read today on a mailing list a very interesting thread. It seems like there is a project Xen hosting that has the goal to provide cheap, reliable, and community managed Xen hosting.  It really seems like a nice project especially because some communities stared using it ( http://www.chris-lamb.co.uk/2007/10/03/yet-another-community-xen-server ) but personally I still prefer good old BSD jails.

In my opinion Xen is a relatively young platform, it isn’t tested enough by a lot o people comparing to the jails that over the years have proven their advantages.Anyway I hope one day this will become a reliable solution because it could be the beginning of something…

Three hours ago WordPress 2.2.3 was released, the perfect chance to test a new plugin I’ve just installed. Instant Upgrade is a the plaugin I use for upgrading WordPress from now on. Is no secret that upgrades are annoying, you must download the new version, unpack it, delete the old files, copy in the new files, run an upgrading routine.

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After a short vacation ( about 12 days ) I’ve got back to work ( my work ). I have stared on building my personal homepage where, so far there is not much to find except some things about me , some links and some scripts that I use every day in order to make my work easier.

If you have a few minutes to waste please check http://dante.new-order.org and send me some feedback on my email ( dante@new-order.org ) in order to help me drive the website in the right direction.

Yesterday was a sad day, I’ve finished watching all five seasons of Justice League ( my favorite cartons ) , so I’ve asked some friends to recommend me something else to watch because my life without movies and serials would be to boring . Some of them recommended me Lost , Prison break , Rome , 24 but I have already seen those. Finally my friend Radu gave me the solution that is going to keep me busy for a very , very long time. He recommended me a website where you could see lots of series on line , yes heard ( seen ) it right a lot of series online .

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