Firefox startup time in FreeBSD: 1:24.9, including the OS and KDE boot time

While building the subject, I got this:

NOTICE:To build OOo, you should have a lot of free diskspace (~ 11GB) and memory (~ 2GB).If you want SDK and/or solver, please type make sdk and/or make solver
=> OOo_BEA300_m2_source.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/openoffice.org3.
=> Attempting to fetch from http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/sources/.**OOo_BEA300_m2_source.tar.bz2 2% of 284 MB** 57 kBps 01h23m

TWO GIGS of RAM!!! Three hundred megs of sources!!! OMG! Someone kill me! And how am I supposed to install this thing??

It works :)

First try to post to lj from IM. Trying to write from Kopete.

June turned out to be a productive month. Firefox 3 came out, Wine finally hit 1.0, and yours truly got Xorg up and running on his laptop.

Installed KDE, set up Russian and Ukrainian localization. Funny side note — I was going to write in Russian, but never bothered adding the Russian keyboard layout (I don’t like having three languages on the computer). Flash works in FF, though only version 7, because version 9 just showed empty squares for some reason. And version 7 doesn’t work everywhere. Damn :/ After all, it’s a plain truth that a user works not with the operating system but with applications, so they don’t really care which OS is running underneath. Firefox and Last.fm player are the same as before — the search for other software continues. In order, here’s what I’d like to have:

Over the local network it connects fine. When I try to connect to an external IP address, depending on the protocol set in the config, I get the following errors: udp: read UDPv4: Connection reset by peer (WSAECONNRESET) (code=10054) tcp: TCP: connect to 92.113.13.48:5000 failed, will try again in 5 seconds Both machines access the internet through an ADSL modem configured as a router. The necessary ports are forwarded (both TCP and UDP) from the modem to the server. The connection attempt is made to the address that is the real (public) IP on the modem (router). NAT on the modem was verified by forwarding port 80 to the same server — that works fine. Here are the configs: (commented-out lines are the result of trial and error — i.e. the options that were tried and left commented out)

1. A Jabber server. Because local messengers are trash, and Miranda looks pretty :)
2. Kerio Mail Server is crap. Sorting rules are pathetic, log visibility is zero. And hMailServer too. Or maybe I’m just clueless. Looking at MDaemon and XMail.
3. Shadow Copy refuses to work without some filing down. The folder that’s supposed to hold the XP update for version control support — empty. Works with glitches. Figuring out nnBackup and its dump-style operation. Thinking about how to do it properly — so there’s enough space and you can roll back to any version. Haven’t come up with anything solid yet, still reading.

That’s a little plan for the week. MDaemon was aptly named — its settings are truly demonic :)

Turns out Windows has this neat thing called Volume Shadow Copy. Its usefulness lies in the ability to back up files that are open for writing, and on a 2003 Server you can even keep up to 64 copies of a network-shared resource. That is, a file being modified by a user is automatically backed up every time before it’s written, and also when it’s deleted. Kind of a transparent backup — transparent to the user (which is good) and to the admin (also not bad).

Rejoicing at the idle capacity of the server, I set up a zoo of virtual machines on it. Installed XP, 2003, 7.0. In the firewall (Kerio Winroute) I added a rule that everything is allowed for anyone in the “virtual servers” group. In VMWare, the network type for each machine is “Bridged”. That is, their IPs are from the local network and they are visible — the Windows ones via NetBIOS/RDP and the FreeBSD one via SSH. There is a machine on the network with an ADSL connection, configured as a transparent gateway. It is set as the default gateway in all the virtual machines. And all of them show the same picture — the world is pingable (I checked against Yandex), but http/ftp does not work. Not at all. I already mentioned that the outbound access is open in the firewall. I tried all kinds of additional rules — for the server group, for the IP, for all ports, for port 80 — nothing works. Ping is there, traffic does not flow. After a week of poking around I decided the problem is still in Kerio. My suspicion is that this bastard somehow additionally filters popular protocols — I found something about HTTP and FTP inspectors in it. I disabled them, i.e. created services without these inspectors — did not help. Disabled anti-spoofing, jumped on my left leg, spun around three times at full moon — same result. Are there any Kerio users among the few readers of this journal? Tell me — where is the bottleneck?