Monthly Archives: July 2009

Planet FreeBSD and Feedburner

Posted by Florent Thoumie on July 27, 2009 2 comments

Following Murray’s suggestion to use feedburner to track Planet FreeBSD subscribers, I’ve created feeds and added badges to Planet FreeBSD frontpages. So far it still shows 0 subscribers but I’ve done the necessary tweaking to point the rss/atom feeds to the new one. I hope the readers will be smart enough to notice the rss to atom change. We’ll see how it works out.

I’ve also removed the rss10/opml/foaf feeds as they seem to be mostly requested by crawlers. If you’re using it and can give a reasonable reason why you can’t use atom, drop me an email.

Prowl is full of awesome

Posted by Florent Thoumie on July 24, 2009 Comments Off

I read about prowl a few weeks ago, and quickly dismissed it as I believed it required growl sending him the alerts. Actually it doesn’t!

Here’s the description from the website:


Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac (or even Windows! see the FAQ) can be sent to your iPhone over push, with a full range of customization and grace you expect.

Just go the the prowl website, create your account, log in, go to settings and generate your API key. Once you’re done, download the prowl client for iPhone (2.79E if I remember correctly) and start it once, it will register your phone on the website.

Now, download the CLI client here (not yet in ports) and start playing around!

Here are a few things you can do with prowl already: receive Nagios alerts, know when somebody’s talking to you on irssi, ...

blogs.freebsdish.org updated to wordpress-mu 2.8.2

Posted by Florent Thoumie on July 23, 2009 Comments Off

WordPress-MU 2.8.2 fixes a XSS vulnerability and a few other annoying bugs (like the auto-upgrade features).

Source

WordPress-MU updated to 2.8.1

Posted by Florent Thoumie on July 14, 2009 Comments Off

Following WordPress-MU 2.8.1 release, I’ve updated the copy on blogs.freebsdish.org. Apparently there’s a bug with the auto-upgrader as it still says I should update to 2.8.1.

As usual, poke me if you encounter any issue.