Posted by Benjamin Close on April 14, 2010 under FreeBSD | 
Recently a port audit security advisor was released that indicated an exploit with sudoedit of the security/sudo FreeBSD port. At the time I was running sudo 1.6.9 and being a responsible system administrator, I decided to upgrade sudo to the latest revision of the port (1.7.2p2 at the time). The upgrade went very smoothly, with [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on January 8, 2010 under FreeBSD, UniSA |
Recently I was working on a php command line program that required access to a serial port. Initially developed under Linux the program was then shifted to it’s permanent location on a FreeBSD server. This is where we first started having problems. Initially we discovered the server didn’t have a native serial port. We fixed [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on November 6, 2009 under FreeDesktop |
Please welcome Gaetan Nadon to the Xorg development team, mentored initially by Peter Hutterer (whot)
Posted by Benjamin Close on August 12, 2009 under ClearChain, Computers |
Recently the server hosting clearchain.com (aka Leo) has been having disk io errors. This has had me quite perplexed. You see Leo is a virtual machine running on redundant hardware as part of an VMWare ESX cluster. Hence whilst I can understand slow performance and delayed access at some times, disk IO’s don’t make sense. [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on August 6, 2009 under Computers, OpenSource, UniSA |
Working out that VNC can put a client ONHOLD, making it look like the server has frozen
Posted by Benjamin Close on July 30, 2009 under Computers, FreeDesktop, OpenSource, Programming |
Tags: api, conversion, examples, gtk+, MPX, protocol, toolkit, XI1, XI2, XInput 1.5, XInput1, Xinput2
Details about the API changes between Xinput 1(XI1) and XInput 2 (XI2)
Posted by Benjamin Close on July 27, 2009 under FreeDesktop |
Please welcome Yang Zhao (yzhao) to the FD.o ranks. Working on Xorg and in particular the xf86-video-radeonhd driver.
Posted by Benjamin Close on July 23, 2009 under FreeDesktop |
Please welcome Alexander Sack (asac) to the Freedesktop team. Alex will be working on ModemManager & NetworkManager
Posted by Benjamin Close on under FreeDesktop |
Please welcome Arkadiusz Miskiewicz (arekm) to the open office team.
Posted by Benjamin Close on under FreeDesktop |
Please welcome Alex Villacís Lasso to the FreeDesktop ranks. Alex will be working on improving the Savage driver, mentored by Alex Deucher
