Please welcome Romain Tartiere (romain@) to the FreeBSD Ports Committers ranks.
Romain has been a driving force in bringing our mono ports up to speed. He’s also been maintaining a lot of C# ports out of our CVS tree. I will be mentoring him.
First, I’d like to apologize for the extended downtime planet freebsd has suffered in the past three weeks. The server was back up a few days ago but the issues I’ve been experiencing since early december were still present. The load on the box was insanely high all the time for very little traffic.
I’ve finally managed to find what was causing it and it seems to be working properly again (as in, requesting the front page doesn’t take 30 seconds amymore). While I was at it, I upgraded Wordpress-MU to the freshly released 2.9.1 (video embedding is now dead easy, there’s a integrated picture editor, ...).
Again, sorry for the inconvenience. Happy reading!
So, that WordPress plugin I mentioned previously has been working pretty well and I might replace Planet faster than I thought. Actually I might do that over the weekend.
A few users probably won’t be happy that the “complete” version is going away. I don’t have plans for it at the moment. If you think something else is missing, leave a comment.
If you’re meant to be listed on blogs.freebsdish.org but you’re not, then drop me an email or leave a comment and I’ll (re-)add you.
If you’re in the list but don’t put your posts in the FreeBSD category, then they won’t be aggregated.
Alright, so I just found out about that FeedWordPress plugin for WordPress and I figured I would give it a spin. It seems to be doing everything I did with Planet, and has a few features (shared admin rights through wordpress accounts, mark new posts as pending instead of publishing them straight away) that could prove useful if I want to poke core@ about planet.freebsd.org once again.
Anyway, check it out.
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.
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.
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.
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, ...
WordPress-MU 2.8.2 fixes a XSS vulnerability and a few other annoying bugs (like the auto-upgrade features).
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.
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