Port or Package Installation Date
There are a number of times that I need to find out when a port or package was last upgraded or installed. This comes in very handy every time I […]
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Installing Pear on OS X (Maverick)
PEAR is a poplular PHP package manager, it doesn’t come by default on OSX, how to install PEAR on OSX 10.9 Mavericks and earlier versions of OSX.
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FreeBSD ZFS mirror/raidz
This how-to documents how to setup ZFS and install FreeBSD 9.1 into it. ZFS is a great modern file system (invented by SUN Microsystems) to use under FreeBSD. It is
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Upgrading Perl from the Ports Collection
Upgrading perl has always been a difficult task. As with other large projects or software packages, it can have a large number of modules or libraries installed that you are
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Creating a FreeBSD install DVD
FreeBSD distributions usually have 2 CDs. I wanted to have both CDs combined into one DVD. There are several good reasons to do this.
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Installing Clamav Milter in Sendmail
ClamAV is a very good open source virus detector. It can detect virus’ from the command line but the best part of it is that you can plug it into
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CDBakeOven on FreeBSD
CDBakeOver is a CD/DVD burning tool that will work under KDE and FreeBSD. It is quite good and works similar to Nero. FreeBSD’s security by default will not allow CDBakeOver to
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