If you use the FreshPorts search page frequently, then we have a few treats for you.
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My thanks to Karol Kwiatkowski for the OpenSearch format plugins.
And to slunky and Roderick Person for this Opera solution:

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I am pleased to announce a FreshPorts design contest. The prize? A trip to BSDCan 2007. Included are airfares, accommodation, and entry to BSDCan 2007, up to a value of CAD$1000.
Take the existing FreshPorts website and give it a face lift. Improve it. Keep in mind that the basic […]

Yesterday I wrote about the script that will update category descriptions. Today I’ll show the script that will invoke that script.
This script will fetch the file via cvsweb,
config.sh contains all the setting particular to this installation.
This code is now in beta and will move to production after it’s been invoked at least once.

#!/bin/sh

if […]

This is all Pav’s fault. The conversation went something like this (other conversations trimmed):
[15:32] <Pav> dvl: around?
[15:39] <dvl> Pav: here!
[15:41] <dvl> .ping Pav
[15:41] <dvl> ping Pav
[15:41] *** ¢ PING sent to Pav
[15:41] *** ¢ PING reply of 3.25 s from Pav
[15:41] <dvl> third time works
[15:42] <laemodost> Ping timeout.
[15:43] <dvl> yueah
[15:49] <Pav> dvl: hey hey.. […]

Two users mentioned that that the news feeds had extra bits in them. In short, you were seeing &amp;amp instead of just &.
Fixed.

Here is my latest contribution to fight spam:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html

Just in case you use Cacti: Cacti remote injection exploit

I just noticed a bug in the slave ports, when Bacula Server, that excellent backup tool, was upgraded to 2.0.0. The slave port, Bacula Client, was still on the old version.
I hope to fix this soon. As a precaution, I emptied the entire cache.
20:45 - fixed. It was a […]