Monthly Archives: February 2005

Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.4rc1

Moved to MediaWiki 1.4rc1 to avoid some nasty issues. It helps to be on the announce list of web applications that you use to catch things early! http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=307068

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DJ Science

What good is having a massive collection of 12“ cuts if you don’t know how to mix em???? Huh? Huh? Huh? So on Friday evening I got started with Mixxx (an open source DJ tool), Prokyon3 (A multithreaded music manager … Continue reading

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Wiki escapedes!

I need a wiki to move all my tech writings to. Get it sorted, organized and searchable. I have tried the following: phpwiki – Easy to setup, installable from FreeBSD ports – Content addition is straight forward – UI could … Continue reading

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Speed up mutt with Maildir header cache

Compiling mail/mutt-devel with WITH_MUTT_MAILDIR_HEADER_CACHE speeds up mailbox reading by a huge factor. I can now move between mailboxes at ~3 secs per switch. Cool! [buffy] ~> mutt -v | grep CAC +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +HAVE_GETADDRINFO +USE_HCACHE

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And back to our regular schedule!

Fixed the portupgrade problem by removing /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db as explained in . pkgdb -F && portupgrade -a -i Was getting withdrawal symptoms. Its been like a week since I last upgraded ports!

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