The deadline for voting has passed. The Candidates | The Contest Details The table holding the results is: freshports.org=# \d design_results Table “public.design_results” Column | Type | Modifiers ———+————–+————————————————————- id | integer | not null default nextval(‘design_results_id_seq’::regclass) user_id | integer | not null choice1 | character(1) | not null choice2 | character(1) | not null […]
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Some of you may be noticing HTML in the daily outgoing messages. I apologise for that. You must have seen the various notices that appear at the top of each FreshPorts webpage. At present, they look like this: Absolute BSD – $25 shipped – order yours now I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer/sysadmin.
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The candidates from the Design Contest are now available for review and voting. Vote early. Vote often. Enjoy.
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FreshSource has long has a tool for walking the source tree. By source tree, do not think src. Think ports, www, src, docs, everything that you can see through cvsweb. The screen shot you see is what FreshSource looks like on my laptop. I’m happy with this progress, which represents about two hours of work.
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One of the as yet unexploited capabilities of the FreshPorts database is the ability to watch non-ports. On the train from Ottawa to Montreal, as I was headed for the PHP Conference, I worked on creating notification reports for non-ports. It took about an hour, but I suceeded. The changes are not significant, and I
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Some of you will have noticed that we had a short outage on the FreshPorts webserver yesterday. It would have appeared as if the webserver was not responding. It was being slow. Very slow. The cause is interesting. When I checked the logs, it was my ad server that was busy. So busy that nobody
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The news feeds now contain the committer’s email address.
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Repo copies are evil. What are repo copies? A repo copy occurs when you move things around in the repository manually. For example, this commit contains a lot of repo copy work. Ports are being moved from their current category to a new category, ports-mgmt. The original files in the CVS repository are manually moved
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At Ade’s prompting, I’m getting ready to move FreshPorts onto the dual opteron. It should have moved there some time ago. To keep track of the system stats, I’m using Cacti. I used the database I created on another server and copied it over to the new box. As part of this, I needed to
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I wanted to get linprocfs running on the dual opteron. I was setting up Cacti and a few of the features I am using requires access to linprocfs. First, let’s get the Linux Binary Compatibility: # kldload linux kldload: can’t load linux: File exists Eh? Really? # kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 4
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