Vasile Cristescu`s Unix Blog

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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WordPress is a very powerful and customizable software, but it doesn’t have all the features I need. But fortunately there are people all around the world that build plugins for WordPress. Plugins are nice and easy to add but the most annoying part is to download them by ftp or sftp ( in my case ) on my server , unpack them and activate them. I don’t really like this part but yesterday when I was browsing for plugins on the internet I found a really nice one : PlugInstaller

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Well now … I have just finished my first WordPress upgrade. I have just followd the instructions from http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress and everything worked like a charm without any complications. If you’re curious about the bugs closed in 2.2.2 check this out, but I bet that 95 % of the readers won’t be courious

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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I’m going to write now all proxy history or why you should have a proxy on your router/server/gateway but I’m going to explain how to setup one.

First of all it’s recommended to have a separate partition for the proxy cache.( as big as you can afford ). In my case I have /var/squid , 40 GB.

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Working as a remote admin I’ve often met situations
where the datacenter wasn’t able to provide me with
the OS I wanted. Having to chose between working with an OS
that didn’t fits my needs, changing the datacenter and installing
the OS I wanted I often chose the later.

The following steps require strong knowledge of your OS of choice
it is not intended to be a step by step tutorial.

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