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Nov 02, 2007
Hot on the heals of my upgrade to OpenBSD 4.1, OpenBSD 4.2 has been released. The upgrade process was painless again. Just follow the upgrade guide and you'll have a working system.
The only thing missing from the guide is how to install the new sources and ports. I use a pretty heavy-handed approach of:
# rm -rf /usr/XF4 /usr/ports
# rm -rf /usr/src/*
# cd /usr
# tar -xvzf /path/to/xenocara.tar.gz
# tar -xvzf /path/to/ports.tar.gz
# cd /usr/src
# tar -xvzf /path/to/src.tar.gz
# tar -xvzf /path/to/sys.tar.gz
I didn't bother trying to update my installed ports via ports this time. I just used the pkg_add upgrade procedure.
Also, SSH Protocol 2 is force by default, which makes OpenBSD Post Install a little bit smaller.
Tagged under OpenBSD.
Stack |
Oct 30, 2007
In typical fashion, I got sick of the layout I had set up for this site. I played around a bit and came up with this grassy new theme. There are still some bugs to work out, but I'm almost happy with the result.
In other news, I finally upgraded to OpenBSD 4.1. Instead of wiping the partition and starting from scratch, I tried using the Upgrade Guide. All-in-all, it went well, but I could not get Ports to work after the upgrade. I removed the /usr/XF4, /usr/ports and /usr/src/* directories, but recompiling bash failed. Specifically, it died trying to reinstall a newer version of gettext. It didn't want to remove the old one, so I just used the pkg_add method of updating, which worked fine. I'll be updating the articles shortly, but there really wasn't a large change between the two releases.
Tagged under OpenBSD and Stack's CMS.
Stack |
Oct 16, 2007
I launched this site with the thought that, once it was in production, I would quickly fix the outstanding bugs that I knew of.
Then I came across Humanized Messages for jQuery. I was never happy with the green notice and red error messages that I normally use throughout the site. It tends to be common practice to drop an extra line into the page when a command completes successfully, so when I saw the dialog boxes that disappear on a mouse movement, I knew that it was the solution I needed.
It was really easy to implement and I get the nice side effect of having the jQuery libraries available to me now.
Tagged under Stack's CMS.
Stack |
Oct 10, 2007
My site has been down for quite a while now. This is the beginning of me reviving that carcas was Stack's CMS. I should have all of the kinks worked out over the next couple of weeks.
In the mean time, I've migrated a portion of my articles over from the old site. They were all from around the middle of 2006, so things have changed. Please be patient while I get them all updated. I might even post some new ones.
Tagged under Stack's CMS.
