The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I'm working on the "cancel" page now.  It's a real hassle to manually delete an account for someone.  As the feature set grows, so do the tables in the database.  I'll post the new working cancel code at some point in the future.  I'm in the middle of other projects right now. 

 There's been a flurry of activity lately with mports.  We've added a number of new ports including qt4.  

Results from our last magus run:

• untested: 187 
• pass: 1656 
• fail: 29 
• warn: 408 
• internal: 1 
• skip: 23
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Magus is running again.  It's the first run since 0.2.1-RELEASE.  We've already found 20 ports that need some TLC and the run is still going.   

Various security issues have been reported in the last two months.  It is important that users update their OS if they use IPV6 or ftpd.  Updates have been committed to our src repository.  At this time, we don't have a binary update system, so there is no method to update in that fashion.  

All patches have been applied to RELENG_0_2 which is recommended for 0.2-RELEASE or 0.2.1-RELEASE users.  0.1 users can get some of the updates on RELENG_0_1 (cvs branch), but it's recommended to update to 0.2.x as soon as possible. 

 I've been working on some changes for the unix client.  It now allows you to change the host (for other justjournal installs), supports subjects, and has better error handling. 

I'm also working on some new features to the blogger api and the normal journal update code.

We now have xfce 4.4.2 in mports.  You may install xfce by using the new meta port mports/x11-wm/xfce4  

 We do not have a package at this time.  

xfce

Today, I added an xfce port to mports.  It is only version 3, but the missing gdk-pixbuf dependancy was finally fixed.  In case anyone is curious, I had to use our port of libtool to get it to build properly with shared libraries.  xfce 4 is very large so I don't know about supporting it right away.  This was done after a user request for xfce. I don't care for it.

flock

linux-flock was updated to 1.2.5 today.  This includes several security fixes and feature enhancements. For instance, Digg was added in 1.2.  It also includes a working copy of flash player so you can enjoy youtube without much hassle.

twitter

I added a new port, deskutils/twitter which is a shell script that allows you to update your twitter account from the command line.  usage is like: 

# twitter username password "my entry here"

midnightbsd-backgrounds

Another port of interest is the x11-themes/midnightbsd-backgrounds that installs desktop wallpaper with the MidnightBSD logo.  There are several variations created by myself and "smultron".  We'll be adding more to that port at a later time.  It currently installs in a way that KDE can pick up.  We'd like to get gnome aware at a later time.  

bind 9.5.0-p2

I've updated our bind 9.5 port to p2.

x11/themes/midnightbsd-backgrounds was added today. It includes several MidnightBSD inspired desktop backgrounds in PNG and JPEG format.

 I've changed the frequency that ds9's cvs mirror updates.  It no longer rsync's every 30 minutes, but rather every 6 hours.  The previous cycle was giving people trouble over slow links.

I've created a new CVS activity blog.  It will display the commits to MidnightBSD in real time.   Since CIA.vc is having reliability problems, this is a way for developers to check on recent activity while avoiding the large emails on the midnightbsd-cvs@midnightbsd.org list.  However, the formatting sucks and I don't have messages included yet.  I'll try to tackle that after I get some sleep.

The upside to this approach is that we've also got RSS and ATOM feeds of the cvs history automatically. 

Squeak! Happy Birthday

 Happy Birthday mommy!

 Happy Birthday mommy!  I would have gotten you something, but you already have me.

 Today is mommy's birthday.  Happy Birthday!