http://blog.new-order.org Unix solutions , ideas , tutorials Fri, 16 May 2008 08:44:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://blog.new-order.org/2008/05/16/freebsd-konqueror-flash-integration/ http://blog.new-order.org/2008/05/16/freebsd-konqueror-flash-integration/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 08:38:47 +0000 dante http://blog.new-order.org/?p=29 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. It makes a pretty good job but is not Open Source and the biggest disadvantage was that is using linux_base…. fortunately a few days ago [...]]]> http://blog.new-order.org/2008/05/16/freebsd-konqueror-flash-integration/feed/ http://blog.new-order.org/2008/04/10/choose-freebsd/ http://blog.new-order.org/2008/04/10/choose-freebsd/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:29:20 +0000 dante http://blog.new-order.org/?p=28 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. ]]> http://blog.new-order.org/2008/04/10/choose-freebsd/feed/ http://blog.new-order.org/2008/04/02/kmail-bogofilter/ http://blog.new-order.org/2008/04/02/kmail-bogofilter/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:51:12 +0000 dante http://blog.new-order.org/?p=26 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 [...]]]> http://blog.new-order.org/2008/04/02/kmail-bogofilter/feed/ http://blog.new-order.org/2008/03/12/tightvnc/ http://blog.new-order.org/2008/03/12/tightvnc/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:48:40 +0000 dante http://blog.new-order.org/2008/03/12/tightvnc/ 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, [...]]]> http://blog.new-order.org/2008/03/12/tightvnc/feed/ http://blog.new-order.org/2008/02/18/conky-system-monitor/ http://blog.new-order.org/2008/02/18/conky-system-monitor/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:00:02 +0000 dante http://blog.new-order.org/2008/02/18/conky-system-monitor/ 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 : # A comprehensive conky script, configured [...]]]> http://blog.new-order.org/2008/02/18/conky-system-monitor/feed/ http://blog.new-order.org/2007/10/04/xen-hosting/ http://blog.new-order.org/2007/10/04/xen-hosting/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:56:58 +0000 dante http://blog.new-order.org/2007/10/04/xen-hosting/ 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 [...]]]> http://blog.new-order.org/2007/10/04/xen-hosting/feed/ http://blog.new-order.org/2007/09/08/wordpress-223/ http://blog.new-order.org/2007/09/08/wordpress-223/#comments Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:38:44 +0000 dante http://blog.new-order.org/2007/09/08/wordpress-223/ 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 [...]]]> http://blog.new-order.org/2007/09/08/wordpress-223/feed/ http://blog.new-order.org/2007/09/06/scripts/ http://blog.new-order.org/2007/09/06/scripts/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:06:45 +0000 dante http://blog.new-order.org/2007/09/06/scripts/ 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 [...]]]> http://blog.new-order.org/2007/09/06/scripts/feed/