RFC: OpenSMTPD for FreeBSD
I don’t like writing long posts so let’s go straight to the point. Here is a shar to test mail/opensmtpd on FreeBSD. Read the comments in the Makefile. Also this is just a preview. The port isn’t complete (I haven’t checked the conflicts yet and it doesn’t update mailer.conf).
For sample configs, have a look there.
Comments/patches welcome.
Omegle Conversation #1
Thanks to spud, I’ve discovered this awesome time-killer that is omegle. The concept is simple: you just go to the website and you’ll end up talking to a random stranger, who, like you, is connected to that website.
So, my blog being pretty quiet lately, I’ve decided I would post a few conversations that I found amusing once in a while.
Here’s #1.
Connecting to server...
Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on.
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: hi
Stranger: hey stranger im happy for your you and ima let you finish but the last stranger was the best random stranger of all timews
You: alright, so you're a guy
You: and i'd say under 20
You: probably from somewhere in the us
Stranger: wow how did you kn ow
You: i can see your webcam
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
Planet FreeBSD and Feedburner
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
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
WordPress-MU 2.8.2 fixes a XSS vulnerability and a few other annoying bugs (like the auto-upgrade features).
WordPress-MU updated to 2.8.1
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.
Mono ports updated to 2.4
Thanks to the work of Romain Tartiere, the FreeBSD ports of mono have just been updated to the latest stable version (2.4). I expect a few more C# ports to appear soonish! hint gnome-do hint
Banshee updated to 1.5.0 in FreeBSD Ports
If you haven’t read it yet, Banshee 1.5.0 was released yesterday. I’ve just updated the port. I had to drop my .config/banshee-1 directory and start over but that was only a minor issue since my library was rather small. Hopefully this was just a local problem.
Check out this announcement for more details about the new features.
Something that’s annoying
... losing your passwd/group files when you don’t have a (recent) backup.
Well, it is especially annoying when you’re connected remotely and don’t have a root shell. When you have root privileges, here’s your solution:
cd /var/db/pkg
for i in `grep useradd */+INSTALL | cut -d: -f1`; do
env PKG_PREFIX=/usr/local/ sh $i ${i%%/*} PRE-INSTALL;
env PKG_PREFIX=/usr/local/ sh $i ${i%%/*} POST-INSTALL;
done
Obviously that can be done in one line, I just wrapped it to make it easier to read.
You’re welcome.
Moonshine enters FreeBSD Ports
I’ve had the port locally for some time, but since the tree was frozen and there was no rush to commit it, I forgot about it. Anyway, here it is!
Also, I added the pulseaudio option (on by default) to the moonlight port, which makes the moonshine experience much more interesting.
When everybody’s talking about Moonlight 2.0 Preview, we’re finally getting somewhere with 1.0 