Vasile Cristescu`s Unix Blog

My favorite browser is Konqueror but I always had problems with flash. Durring the last couple of years I used this tutorial in order to make flash work together with Konqueror.

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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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While I was searching something on the internet today I found a very interesting post on a blog about the future of FreeBSD 7.0 It seems that FreeBSD 7.0 will be one of the most significant  release since FreeBSD 5.0. If you want to find out more details about the changes brought by FreeBSD 7.0 check this out.

Not to long ago I came across a problem that started to annoy me : I had to exchange file with my colleagues ( for them to exchange between the they ware using Y!Messenger file transfer utility , but when they needed to send me a file thy couldn’t because gaim/centericq file transfer in not compatible with Y!Mess’es file transfer ) and I needed to find fast a solution. So i decided to setup a file sharing server. The steps were very simple :

1. Installed samba

# cd /usr/ports/net/samba3

# make install clean

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For those who don’t know in FreeBSD you can install software from the ports collection. The propose of this tutorial is to explain how to use and maintain your ports tree.

First of all you need to identify the port’s path by typing this :

# cd /usr/ports

# make search name=<port>

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