WordPress update and facelift

After a (long) break, I finally found the time to update my wordpress and also change the default theme I was using before (not that there was anything wrong with it but I had a chat with an old fiend regarding web design and decided that it’s time for something as simple as possible).

I hope one of these days (depending on my free time, which I don’t have lately) I will post some new stuff.

The website is down

This is how tech support is done. Believe me, been there, done that (I admit, I’m not proud of it but …. ) :-)

Mismatched kernel and world is a bad thing !

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-(

FreeBSD Konqueror – Flash integration

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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Why choose FreeBSD

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.

Kmail and bogofilter

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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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, 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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