Something like this server. Not exactly the same model, but close.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_2950_3?c=ru&cs;=rubsdc&l;=ru&s;=bsd

Changed jobs. Going to do sysadmin work (well, general IT grunt work :) at a small office. Currently figuring out how everything is set up. Once things settle down, I’ll get back in touch with everyone. In brief — the network is ~15 machines. There’s a server that has never been turned on. It should be working (2×2000 Intel, 4GB RAM, 2×70GB + 3×120GB SATA or SAS, rack, cooling, a solid UPS). I need to turn it into a domain controller + file server + application server + possibly a terminal server. Chances are Windows is installed on it and it’ll probably stay that way for now. Because what software will be running there is still unknown. And I’m wary of Samba — I won’t be able to configure it quickly. Either way, first things first — figure it all out. Hope the UPS batteries haven’t died over the past year; that would be a shame. Among other things, there should be a local MTA and a proxy. Right now Courier Mail Server (looks pretty weak) and HandyCache (also a rough piece of work) are installed. Looking into what they can be replaced with. On the Windows side I know Kerio; for Linux I’m thinking of checking out Postfix and Squid. The problem is that if anything changes, it has to be done carefully and transparently for the users, because the organization is budget-driven — mistakes will be punished. Hoping a stable state will be reached soon; will be bragging about achievements. Thoughts and suggestions are welcome.

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 www/linuxpluginwrapper is obsolete.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.

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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?