Turned out that watching Flash on FreeBSD is a non-trivial task. There is nothing to download from the Adobe site, and after installing from ports, Flash is still not visible in either Opera or Firefox. Found another workaround — will give it a try.

Open the package manager as mentioned above and look for www/linux-flashplugin7, install it. It will install nspluginwrapper too and activate the browser plugin and any other browser plugins (like adobe acroread8) too. Restart the browser and use Flash. www/linuxpluginwrapper is obsolete.

I’d be grateful if someone could point me to a guide on how to run VNC over SSH (on FreeBSD).

I tried to build Hamachi LogMeIn under FreeBSD — it started pulling in Linux packages and choked. I figured I didn’t know how to launch vncserver bound to a specific interface anyway, so I decided to go a different route and drop Hamachi (also tried it under Windows, opened the incoming RDP port in the firewall — it connected, but dropped after a minute. Never figured out why).

When Konsole is running with multiple tabs (logins), users are not shown by w. Interesting questions: a) why? b) what happens to the session if X or Konsole crashes?

Today is a very good day. I found a person I had lost long ago and missed terribly.

A wonderful guy with whom I have, you could say, been through thick and thin. We fought and made up, got offended and worked hard together. We learned — probably, I learned much more from him than the other way around. We ate from the same plate and drank from the same glass. I get the feeling he is basically a childhood friend, even though we have only known each other for a couple of years. But apparently the harsh everyday life of the dorms allowed us to live through quite a lot in such a short time.

It has always been a mystery to me: how do people in large institutions manage to finish their work so harmoniously that by 17:01 everyone is done and heading home? When a big team, like a single organism, rises and leaves the offices, creating traffic jams on the roads, queues in the stores… It turns out it’s very simple. This situation is typical of a team that does nothing.

unverified info from an unknown source

Dia was developed in the image and likeness of the commercial Windows application “Visio”, so switching to it should come with no learning curve complications. You can build various diagrams and flowcharts with the same ease. Dia features special tools for simplified drawing of entity-relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and more.

official site

Windows installer

Why does every god in their life create around themselves a multitude of stones that they are then unable to lift? Do they need this for training? Do they expect to grow stronger and cope with the tasks they have set for themselves? Or do they act unconsciously, unable to manage their own might?

Building the subject from ports was not the most optimal decision… At this point the KDE-3.5.8 build on a Duron-750 with ADSL-512k has been running for 21 hours already. What would have been the right way to do it?

Question — do I need to install anything else to set up NAT, or can ppp handle it on its own? Found this:

http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/3173.html#1

/etc/ppp/ppp.conf:

default:
set device PPPoE:ed0:my_isp's_name
set speed sync
set mru 1492
set mtu 1492
set ctsrts off
enable lqr
add default HISADDR
set timeout 0
set redial 0 0
#NAT
nat enable yes
nat log yes
nat same_ports yes
nat unregistered_only yes
enable dns

my_isp's_name:
set authname username
set authkey password

In rc.conf:

First rake. ShellGuard, my beloved ShellGuard - won’t connect. sshd is running and configured, I can log in locally on 127.0.0.1. Even PuTTY connected. Though sluggishly. But ShellGuard says

no matching comp found. Client zlib Server: none,zlib@openssh.com

Thanks to opennet. Turns out the fix is

"Compression yes" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

and also

PasswordAuthentication yes

Though it connected sluggishly too. I’m blaming the huge number of interfaces and a running torrent. If it’s this slow on a real machine (up to 30 seconds to log in), the question will come up again.