Design Contest Candidates
The candidates from the Design Contest are now available for review and voting. Vote early. Vote often. Enjoy.
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FreshSource – navigating the repo
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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FreshSource – watching non-ports
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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Using AdSense to launch a DoS attack
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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Changes to News Feeds
The news feeds now contain the committer’s email address.
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repo copies are evil
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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rddtools – last_update of year 31900 – 944503401600
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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linprocfs – ain’t as easy as it sounds
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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Caching – yet again!
I have written much about caching. FreshPorts has over 500,000 pages. Only a handful of those pages are static, the rest are generated from the database. Sometimes it takes a while to generate that page. To reduce the load on the server and make the website snappier for the user, page contents are cached to
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HTMLification
FreshPorts often tries to help by creating HTML links. Most of the time, it gets this right. But for a recent port, it got it very wrong. Have a look at the PostgreSQL 8.2 page. Note the commits for 05 Feb 2007 and 09 Jan 2007. The code is taking what it thinks is a