God's grace
I've upgraded to the FreeBSD BETA2 and also upgraded my gnome from
marcuscom.com packages. After the gnome upgrade I experienced
problems with nautilus and some other programs not working
correctly so I'm fixing them manually. Thanks God in the end I was
able to compile the nautilus and install it from the
x11-fm/nautilus port. The problems were caused because of my gail
packages wasn't up2date. The package management in FreeBSD 7.0
looks like improved a little but still it's slow when you have to
manage packages over 1000+ like mine I had 1127 and the package
magement is slow as hell. Looks like FreeBSD beta runs fine and no
issues still, I upgraded 4 days ago and until now it's rock solid.
The upgrade of 6.2 -> 7.0BETA2 was a pain in the ass. Because
After I've recompiled and installed the new kernel the system
didn't boot. A guy in irc.freenode.net's ##freebsd suggested me to
try compiling the kernel again with GENERIC kernel, and hooray it
worked the GENERIC kernel worked fine I suspect the name change of
the GENERIC file name was the problem. To make the 6.x compiled
apps to work I had to install a port called compat6x. Recently I
spend Most of my time on irc.freenode.net usually in ##freebsd cool
place!. I don't pray a lot lately I felt like nobody hears my
prayers so I stopped. Sometimes I say in my mind and heart "Lord
Jesus Christ Son of the Blessed God, Have mercy over me the
sinner". Also I have to Say Glory be to God for still giving me of
his Divine Grace even though I'm a sinner. On Wednesday I have an
exam in Dutch. So I have to find some time to start reading /
learning the Dutch lessons. Today I was in the collage we had
German. I can say I'm poor at German most of the ppl in the class
are much good at it. I have to sit and study it someday for real.
Unfortunately the laziness always is a strong factor :). I have to
add also that the work week was a sort of pieceful I haven't had a
lot of pressure. I had to create few email addresses change few DNS
records routine checks on servers On monday I have setup and tested
the subversion to work over http:// proto using WebDav. The last
two days I had to add mssql support to the phplib. I've red online
and figured out that usually freetds is needed and a rebuild of the
php lib. I have stucked on a howto on howto make it without
recompiling php with installing php4-sybase and freetds-dev then
adding some stuff into the freetds.conf and making other few
freetds config files to make freetds work with odbc. Unfortunately
that method was unsuccesful (maybe because the remote MS SQL server
was upgraded to 2005. And googling around I've found freetds
version of at least 0.64 is required for tds protocol ver.8. The
freetds which came with debian is version 0.63 :|. In the end I
installed freetds from source on one of the Fedora servers and
recompiled php with --with-mssql. And everything worked fine! Btw I
haven't smoked yesterday and today I'm thinking of quitting smoking
again but only time will show will !