There will be a PostgreSQL Conference in May 2007. I’ll definintely be there! I’m looking forward to this.
It’s right after a BSD conference. There will be quite a few people attending both conferences. One trip, two conferences, a great time.

The 2U dual opteron server I’ve been writing about has left the building. On Monday, FedEx took control of the box. On Wednesday, it was delivered to an undisclosed location in Elk Grove, California, USA. On Thursday, it will be driven to San Jose California, where it will be installed at the […]

Earlier this week, we had a bit of a crisis. The colo which provides bandwidth and servers to FreshPorts (and all the other websites I run), was unexpectedly shutdown. BChosting sold their Vancouver facilities to Netluxe, who, by all accounts, shut down the ops center without notifying customers. Well, I wasn’t notified. […]

The Search and Sanity Test Failure features are now in production. Enjoy.

The FreshPorts search page has been around since May 2000 (nearly 6.5 years). Yesterday I added two new search capabilities…

FreshPorts has a long history of Sanity Testing each commit to the FreeBSD Ports tree. It has been doing this for two main reasons:

Ensure the integrity of the FreshPorts database
Help correct obvious errors as soon as possible

In 2002, FreshPorts allowed committers to opt in to receiving these notifications directly. Prior to this feature, […]

The personal news feeds are active once again.

FreshPorts, the place for ports, now lists the latest vulnerabilities. Along the left hand side of the page, you’ll see the last 15 vulnerabilities, as obtained from the ports/security/portuadit/vuln.xml file.
Happy patching.

The Python listening script is now in production. With a few luser-type problems along the way. Specifically: I have discovered, quite recently, that having the same name for both the NOTIFY command and the LISTEN command is kind of a good strategy when you actually want your listener to be notified. The […]

I’m asking for donations to purchase new hardware. Details are in this FreeBSD Diary article. Thank you.