Monthly Archives: September 2009

FreeBSD – For the love of all

For the love of the world, please do this.
Step 1 :
cd /usr/src

Step 2 :
make love

Enjoy the output
World Peace !!!

FreeBSD – Download ports simultaneously with multiple connections

By default, ports uses 1 connection to download and thus unbearably slow when a server rate limit the connection. Alternatively, we can tell ports to use external utility in order to open multiple connections and download simultaneously.

vim – Commenting multiple lines, block comment

Perl does not have block comment feature. The Acme::Comment module was the easiest way to make Perl do block commenting, with additional features, it allows customization of open & close punctuation mark.
Until yesterday, my first Perl code got some problem and had to seek help from the IRC channel perl-help @ irc.perl.org (these guys are [...]

Network IP address calculator – for subnet and range of host

One of the task installing a new FreeBSD box was dealing with IP addresses. Usually, google a web based calculater would do the trick. But today’s task is a bit different.
IPv6. A whole row of hexadecimal spinning in front of my eyes, just to figure out what is the range of IP that is usable. [...]

Perl – How to install Perl module using CPAN shell

One of Perl’s strength is it’s repository of modules, thousands of modules. No need to re-invent the wheel, just think of what you wanna do and search for it (http://cpan.perl.org).
The CPAN modules are available through the CPAN shell. In this post, we will talk briefly about how to install the CPAN shell and show an [...]

The Perl Ironman Challenge

Ironman Challenge. An effort to promote Perl within its community.
Accidentally stumble upon the challenge while searching for Perl’s mailing lists and blogs.
I have always wanted to pick up a programming language. To buck up my system administration skill by scripting daily routines and system monitoring. And most importantly, write some web application with this much [...]

BIND – name server error “the working directory is not writable”

Recently, there has been a few incident on vulnerabilities of DNS server being exploited. Fortunately, Bind have release patches soon enough for the rest of us to start covering up the loop holes.

After an upgrade or installations of ISC Bind DNS server 9.6 on a FreeBSD box, we will need to stop and start “named” [...]

Technorati blog claim fail error

This post is to record how to claim your blog in Technorati. The instruction received was to create a post with the codes provided then the claim process should complete. But it does not. The error below was showed when checking the status :
There was a problem finding your claim code.
If you have already verified [...]

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