Florent Thoumie

Some days ago, I’ve installed WordPress MU on erwin’s box, so that FreeBSD committers not willing to install one and maintain it could write some lines about their work on FreeBSD or FreeBSD related topics. While there wasn’t too many people asking for such a service at the time (I think only 2 or 3 [...]

Ok, it seems I could find an all-in-one solution to avoid spam getting into my blog. I was wrong, there’s one. It’s called SpamKarma.

I’ve been using it for some days now, and no spam showed up, comment or trackback. I received a digest with all rejected comments, just to make sure there are no false [...]

I’ve been working on two scripts to handle md(4) devices (creation, mount, populating) lately.

There have been two rc.d scripts (ramdisk and ramdisk-own) for quite some time but it was limited to swap and malloc backed devices. So, these new scripts allow to create vnode backed md(4) devices at startup. I’ve also included support for mkuzip [...]

Ok, so it seems everything worked fine with the first plugin I installed some weeks ago and suddenly I started getting approximatively 10 spams a day.

I was about to set a CAPTCHA plugin when I noticed they weren’t real comments, but trackbacks instead, so I went to wp-plugins.net and found a plugin to prevent trackback-spam. [...]

Since I had some time to work on Planet FreeBSD lately, I decided to rewrite part of the template and the CSS. The result still is in beta, see Planet FreeBSD .

I’ve recontacted core@ about the DNS CNAME and we’re trying to find an agreement. It’s just a matter of time before planet.freebsd.org shows up.