FreshPorts fraud Someone thought it might be a good idea to register freshports.net and display the contents of FreshPorts on their page. What is really amazing is that they were asking for donations. Don’t bother looking at their website. The falsehoods are gone now. I have screen shots and many witnesses. The fake looked real …
FreeBSD/NetBSD to merge At the recent at the recent ITECD conference, the United Nations delegates determined that the BSDs must unite in order to provide a single best platform for use in third-world countries, and dispatched negotiators to each of the project leads, resulting in the new FretBSD Project. The members of the FreeBSD and …
Open Source Weekend – conference report The first Open Source Weekend conference was a great event. Our group started to arrive just after 9am, and I think we were all gone by about 5:30pm. We were located on the mezzanine floor, and despite a power failure during the middle of some installs, we managed rather …
Amazon, OSW, and my thanks Welcome to a new year. Traditionally, that type of greeting would be reserved for the first article after Dec 31st. Unfortunately, I didn’t write that in that article. I’m not one always to follow tradition. Yet more links to Amazon! It was many months ago that someone wrote to me …
Tell your story, help others Everyone was once a newbie. It doesn’t matter who you are, at one time you knew nothing about FreeBSD. For that matter, the same can be said about every topic you care to mention. In fact, there was a time you didn’t know much more than how to eat, sleep, …
There is room to improve Yes, this is another FreeBSD advocacy article. And the theme is simple. Everyone can contribute. I’ve said it. Michael Lucas has said it. I have no doubt others have said it. But I’ll say it again. No matter what your skill level is. No matter how experienced you are with …
My first Linux User Group meeting I went to my first Linux User Group meeting tonight. It was run by the Ottawa Canada Linux User Group. There were about 70 people there. Guest speakers included Hung Vu of Armored Networks and Rasmus Lerdorf of the PHP Project. Why was I there? The main reason was …
News feeds The FreeBSD Diary news feed is at news.php. But if you go there now with your browser, remember, it’s an rss file, so you probably won’t see anything. But view the source and you’ll see the code. There is a text only version at news.txt. You can also find the Diary newsfeed at …
BSDSearch spam followup In the 3 or so days since the BSDSearch spam, Garry Dolley appeared to be more angry at the BSD community than the BSD community is disappointed at BSDSearch. This was witnessed by a couple of threads in the BSDSearch forums which provide interesting reading. The first thread is in the Suggest …
Which BSD site is sending out spam? I was surprised by some spam I received tonight. It was the sender and subject matter which caused me the most concern. It was the first time I’d ever been spammed about BSD. Usually it’s some pyramid selling scheme which promised riches beyond your wildest dreams or a …