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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]