Yuck: Undefined symbol "__sbmaskrune"
I have saved tons of compile time in the past by using updated 6-STABLE binary packages, even though I'm running 6.2-RELEASE. (As discussed in past articles here and here.) Well, the last couple of...
View ArticleStupid printing tricks
Why do so many people send Adobe PDF files? Especially if it's just text. Why not just send text? Why should I have to open another application to read your precious newsletter?!Ugh. Anyway, sometimes...
View ArticleThe bash problem
If you use bash as a login shell you might have had the problem of it getting broken and then being unable to login. Now that's a problem! I've burnt myself on this a couple of times. But, in both...
View ArticlePrinting from Windows to CUPS
This is too good to wait on, even though it's late and I'm a little tired. May fill in more later. I have a printer. I hate the Windows drivers that come with it, they're full of ads, obnoxious...
View ArticleYour own web-hosting dogfood
I've had a little project going on for the last few months. It is gotbsd.net, a site for downloading FreeBSD ISO's via BitTorrent. The subject of this entire project should really be a post of its own...
View ArticleBrother, can you spare a meg'?
I started a website, gotbsd.net. It's for getting FreeBSD and PC-BSD and FreeSBIE ISO's via BitTorrent. It's been a lot of fun.I was inspired to start it because the Project had shut down their...
View ArticleFreeBSD logo screensavers
I've been playing around with xscreensaver (x11/xscreensaver) and I've done something fun with a couple of the hacks that you'll want to try. There are many hacks that let you use your own image or...
View ArticleOpen Source Census, Notes
Dru Lavigne mentioned an interesting new project in her recent post, "Calling All BSD Users". It's called The Open Source Census. They want to collect data on the use of open source software. I've...
View ArticleWindows game high scores not saved
Something possessed me to install Snood on the kids' computer again. That's a great, little game. (If you want the same basic game in FreeBSD, take a look at "games/frozenbubble" or...
View ArticleFirefox Download Day
Here is a fun thing that Firefox is trying to do: set the Guinness World Record for most downloads in a day, to promote their new browser. Wow, I have been using Firefox on FreeBSD since well before...
View Articlexterm select/cut characters
I often use Eterm as my terminal. But, it's a little bit heavy and sometimes I use xterm too. Thing is, xterm is not user friendly and the defaults you get by starting it without options are just...
View Article"Error detected while processing ../php.vim"
Here's a minor irritation with the vim port (editors/vim-lite, and probably the others). When I go to edit a php file I get this non-fatal error:"~/somefile.php" 99 lines, 2345 charactersError detected...
View Articlealias or function? and bash 'time'
In a previous post (and a follow-up), I wrote about a number of useful and time-saving aliases that I use in the bash shell. Those posts are pretty old now. In the meantime, I've defined another...
View ArticleCool board games
... On FreeBSD, of course. There're many great games in ports of course. In the area of board games, gnuchess, gnugo, and gnubg have been around for a while and are all excellent. gnubg (backgammon) is...
View Article"Error ... ../php.vim" Update
I wrote about this annoying "E10" error once before. It doesn't crash anything, it just gives a long error message and pause (/"Enter to continue") every time you open a php file in vim with syntax...
View Articlebash history grep alias
In a previous post, I introduced many useful bash shell aliases that I use. There's one that I've made a notable improvement to that I'd like to share. If you spend a lot of time on the command-line...
View ArticleWaiting for box to come back
This is a quick and easy tip, for the detail-oriented! Say a computer that you're interested in is down for some reason. Maybe you've rebooted it and you want to know the second that it's back on-line....
View Articlegotbsd.net: technical difficulties ... resolved
The issues with gotbsd.net have been resolved. Yay!
View ArticleX on FreeBSD amd64
I've gotten an amd64 desktop and started running FreeBSD/amd64 on it. I've had an amd64 capable machine before, but chose to run the i386 version of FreeBSD on it so I could use Nvidia drivers and have...
View ArticleQuick enable passwords for svnserve
I sure love Subversion. What a great tool. But, I'm more a user than an administrator of it. So, when I went to set-up another of my own repositories, I couldn't remember squat about how I'd done it...
View ArticleDrop down link menu, script-free!
[* Almost script-free. The value of the the 'onChange' attribute is actually a one-line script.]This is just a tidbit, but I found it a real pain to find. So, here it is to save you the trouble. I...
View ArticleAn FTP error and fix
Of all the things you'd expect to "just work", the venerable ftp should be near the top of the list. But, it's been giving me some trouble lately. I've been having to upload some files to another...
View Article403 4.7.0 TLS handshake failed
The subject above is an error I found in my maillogs (/var/log/maillog) when trying to figure out why periodic emails from a server had stopped. I was running the default sendmail on FreeBSD 7.2,...
View Article"Call to undefined function preg_replace()"
I was trying to run/install a PHP site and I was getting blank pages and found this error in my web server logs: "PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function preg_replace() in /path/to/file.php" This...
View ArticleTruncated syslog messages
This is a surprisingly easy fix to a very irritating problem. My problem was just this: I'm using the system log (syslog/syslogd/logger) for things other than just system messages. If there's a long...
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