OpenBSD: Checking disk mounts
Filed under: BSD
It happens. You sometimes forget what size disk is installed in a machine and how you sliced it up during install. To refresh your memory, follow what afterboot(8) recommends:
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Riiiggghhht
Filed under: Quotes
How did your husband become so wealthy?
Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in 1949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn’t stolen.
Imelda Marcos, interviewed by TIME’s Nelly Sindayen
FreeBSD: Cleaning up with portsclean
Filed under: BSD
As a FreeBSD admin installs, deinstalls, reinstalls, etc third-party applications via ports, the /usr/ports directory often gets littered with work files used in the port compile process and assorted other cruft which do no more than contribute to disc usage. With portsclean, you can clear your system of these unwanted files, and reclaim precious storage space. portsclean is a utility that comes with the portupgrade port or package.
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About: GnuPG keys
Filed under: BSD
I added links to my OpenBSD and FreeBSD GnuPG keys to the About page.
Commercializing Rasta
Filed under: Quotes
“…binababoy na nga ang reggae dito eh… puro porma, di naman nila naiintindihan talaga kung ano ibig sabihin ng pagiging rasta… yung dating reggae na ang ugat eh socio-political, ngayon puro love song na lang. Kinommercialize na talaga…”
Sammy Asuncion, Filipino reggae band pioneer, interviewed on ABS-CBN’s The Correspondents for the episode “Pinoy Rasta”
FreeBSD to compete with “Linux on the desktop”
Filed under: BSD
FreeBSD vows to compete with desktop Linux
There are two sides to this:
One side is the one that’s likely to go “About freakin’ time” and drool for a “slick” FreeBSD desktop-centric release, preferably with a “friendlier” installer.
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./’s new look
Filed under: Blah
I like it.
Haven’t looked at the code, but from a click + first view angle, the site looks clean.
Now if only they can get rid of the trolls…
