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recent news

[2020-04-05] New version of kvmlib does not connect all network interfaces to one virtual hub anymore, but makes use of the netdev and device commandline options of qemu in order to connect each virtual network card only to its assigned tap interface on the host

[2020-03-15] privatebinc.py is a simple Python client for PrivateBin

[2020-02-23]

• ldif2xml.pl converts LDIF to XML
• From the (s)hell one-liners department: Print the names of all revoked certificates (invoke from inside the pki directory of an Easy-RSA CA):

  openssl crl -noout -text -in crl.pem | grep "Serial Number: " | while read L; do serial="${L#*: }"; openssl x509 -subject -nocert -in "certs_by_serial/$serial.pem" 2>/dev/null || openssl x509 -subject -nocert -in "revoked/certs_by_serial/$serial.crt" 2>/dev/null || echo "ERROR: Cannot find certificate $serial" >&2; done
  

[2019-11-24] New version of check_tvh.py supports Python 3 and reports the size of memory allocated by device drivers

[2019-11-23] New version of kvmlib supports inserting and ejecting of cdrom images via commandline

[2019-11-09] Resizing an UFS2 filesystem on FreeBSD 4.x

[2019-10-05] Updated my howto Upgrading PostgreSQL with pg_upgrade on FreeBSD which now uses /etc/libmap.conf instead of LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[2019-08-03] Negotiate authentication with Python and PycURL on FreeBSD

[2019-07-01]

• ftp6proxy 0.2 is a maintenance release and fixes a bug which could lead to stale temporary firewall rules
• libalias-passive-ftp.patch adds support for outgoing passive FTP to FreeBSD's libalias

[2019-06-23] Updated jupdate.sh, which is a script to update jails on FreeBSD

[2019-06-10]

• New version of kvmlib allows you to specify a non-default sound hardware, e.g. hda instead of ac97; added an example for graphics card passthru as well
• How to Virtualize Windows 10, convert to UEFI, and install virtio drivers on KVM/qemu
• Try adding nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=5500 to your kernel commandline if you are experiencing problems like nvme nvme0: I/O 506 QID 5 timeout, aborting

[2019-05-25] Uploaded a script in order to update jails on FreeBSD

[2019-04-15] Pidgin and the new ICQ WIM protocol on Gentoo

[2019-04-14] Transparent proxy with nginx and pf on FreeBSD

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