Vasile Cristescu’s Blog

This is how tech support is done. Believe me, been there, done that

Here is an example of what you can get for running mismatched kernel and world :

[dante@wraith ~]$ sockstat -4l
sockstat: struct xtcpcb size mismatch
sockstat: struct xinpcb size mismatch
USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS
[dante@wraith ~]$

Now I need to rebuild world and kernel X-(

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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