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.
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 :
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…
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 :
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 old BSD jails. 
In my opinion Xen is a relatively young platform, it isn’t tested enough by a lot o people comparing to the jails that over the years have proven their advantages.Anyway I hope one day this will become a reliable solution because it could be the beginning of something…