Has anyone seen the results of the FreeBSD security survey done back in May 2006? I can’t find anything; I’m wondering if they were just released privately rather than publicly.

We’re testing a new server from our primary vendor, one which uses Xeon 5130 chips, on the SuperMicro X7DVL-E motherboard. This board uses Intel’s new onboard 82563EB NIC. For some reason Intel designs their NICs to not be backwards compatible in any way, and so each new NIC release seems to require a brand new [...]

Time zones are a major source of annoyance for me, when writing code or working with databases that store time-keyed data. It’s especially irritating when you have to deal with the abomination that is daylight savings time.
So, I’ve finally decided to go ahead and set my server clocks to UTC (or GMT). It wasn’t hard [...]

If you ever find yourself in my situation, where installing some updated port from a relatively freshly done cvsup ends up breaking a couple dozen other programs because it decided to upgrade several libraries, you might find the following for loop useful:
cd /usr/X11R6/bin && for m in $(for l in $(for j in $(for i [...]