Upgrading all ports via portupgrade.
portupgradeis a tool that allows you to upgrade ports on your FreeBSD system. It has its faults, and it doesn’t always work (see below), but its about as close as
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Operating Systems
Reading OS X plist files (Command line)
OS X uses plist files to store configuration information – you can think of them as OS X’s version of the windows registry. There are a number of tools to
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Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP in OS X Maverick
With the new OS (Maverick 10.9), getting the AMP stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP) runnig is pretty much the same as it was in OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. This tutorial
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Installing wget in OS X (Maverick)
Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks comes with the command line utility called ‘curl‘ which is a network transfer tool, it does not come with the popular ‘wget‘, in fact ‘curl‘
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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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Apache/PHP on OS X 10.9
I have a MAC Book pro and wanted to setup a web development environment. This requires Apache, PHP, and MySQL. Doing a quick search on the net revealed a few
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DHCP and resolv.conf
DHCP on FreeBSD updates your DNS information in /etc/resolv.conf. This works great for workstation and other systems that only have one interface but what about systems that are connected to
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Samba Errors and ZFS
I have been working on cleaning up a lot of errors that I am seeing on my samba install. It appears that ZFS needs all the extended ACL support installed
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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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ICMP Limits in FreeBSD
FreeBSD limits ICMP and UDP packets that come in on an interface in order to avoid a number of DoS attacks. The Default limits are good for 100Mb/s links but
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