I received many congratulations via various ways on my anniversary. I would like to thank you all for the warm comments / reactions / emails etc. Eventhough I do not celebrate it, it gives me a warm feeling that people think about someone who became an year older 
Thanks a lot people!
Remko
A while ago I started a little test with http://freebsd.evilcoder.org, this is a mirror of the official www.freebsd.org tree, and shows the same files etc. I linked this a few times from my main blog (which you are reading now), and followed the activity. The maximum of unique users was 213, which is quite a lot for a non official mirror ..
Some minutes ago my age changed from 25 to 26 . This means I am yet another year smarter… right? right? right people?
There aint going to be a party though, I do not celebrate this already for a long time! A few people that I specially invited will stop by though, and I will head out for dinner out of the house this night with my (soon to be) wife and kiddo
Cheerio,
Remko, aged 26.
So, This was my first week on the couch, the first week ever while working at Snow that I was not on assignment or on holiday. It feels strange, as a consultant you are normally always away from the office, and only head there in case of need, or our periodic presentation day (first thursday of the month).
People also noticed an increase in my activities around my work, since I have a bit time there, and ofcourse I am doing internal assignments to help the organisation, and to learn from it in the same time…. so whilst sitting on the couch I hope that most people profit from it where possible.. but then again, I hope I’ll find a new assignment soon 
So, lately I am seeing yet another increase in commenting spam. Luckily Akismet does a good job and blocked almost 10.000 entries already, but there is a certain increase. Normally older blog posts fell victim to comment spammers, but now newer ones, that I just created a few days ago are also targeted. This makes it rather interesting.
One thing that is clearly shown though is that they are all from russia, or at least the text and hyperlinks suggest that. I cannot read it at all; so reporting the spam and removing them is my only real option. Remains interesting though that a lot of russian spammers are targetting my little blog..
So: I have CalendarServer in a ”working” state. The kerberos configuration was looking into the local config, which gives the wrong headers and solutions. So I adopted the PATH variable to first look in /usr/local/bin(/krb5-config), which resolved my Kerberos problems.
After that I replaced the E_NOATTR message with E_NOENT. Yes I do understand that it’s not the appropriate message, but since ATTR is not available on my system, I needed to do something to get it properly up and running.
Now with these minor changes, it started working. I managed to create three test users in the default sample configuration and I should be able to share my agenda. Something that I do not understand yet, is that when I enter a new appointment on my iPhone it doesn’t sync to my Macbook. Also what happends is that everytime I login, I get an new UUID in the account list. I removed a few, to no avail.
Perhaps I am too lazy to properly investigate and/or seek what I should be doing, and there is a serious lack of documentation for it. So the next question is: does someone has at least some guidelines on how to actually use the program so that this Stupid Unix fan can use it?
Thanks
The last few days I am trying to setup CalendarServer on FreeBSD 7.2. I failed so far
Together with Tom Scholten I got rid of a lot of errors (oh well a lot, just getting forward); but I am stuck with the following error;
Building Zope Interface…
Building select26…
Building PyDirector…
Using python as Python
Starting server…
exec python /usr/local/src/Twisted/bin/twistd -n caldav -f /usr/local/src/CalendarServer/conf/caldavd-dev.plist -o ProcessType=Combined
/usr/local/src/CalendarServer/calendarserver/tap/caldav.py:48: DeprecationWarning: mktap and related support modules are deprecated as of Twisted 8.0. Use Twisted Application Plugins with the ‘twistd’ command directly, as described in ‘Writing a Twisted Application Plugin for twistd’ chapter of the Developer Guide.
from twisted.scripts.mktap import getid
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/src/Twisted/bin/twistd”, line 19, in
run()
File “/usr/local/src/Twisted/twisted/scripts/twistd.py”, line 27, in run
app.run(runApp, ServerOptions)
File “/usr/local/src/Twisted/twisted/application/app.py”, line 689, in run
config.parseOptions()
File “/usr/local/src/Twisted/twisted/application/app.py”, line 669, in parseOptions
usage.Options.parseOptions(self, options)
File “/usr/local/src/Twisted/twisted/python/usage.py”, line 231, in parseOptions
self.subOptions.parseOptions(rest)
File “/usr/local/src/Twisted/twisted/python/usage.py”, line 241, in parseOptions
self.postOptions()
File “/usr/local/src/CalendarServer/calendarserver/tap/caldav.py”, line 218, in postOptions
self.loadConfiguration()
File “/usr/local/src/CalendarServer/calendarserver/tap/caldav.py”, line 230, in loadConfiguration
config.load(self["config"])
File “/usr/local/src/CalendarServer/twistedcaldav/config.py”, line 199, in load
configDict = ConfigDict(self._provider.loadConfig())
File “/usr/local/src/CalendarServer/twistedcaldav/stdconfig.py”, line 401, in loadConfig
configDict = readPlist(self._configFileName)
File “/usr/local/src/CalendarServer/twext/python/_plistlib.py”, line 80, in readPlist
rootObject = p.parse(pathOrFile)
File “/usr/local/src/CalendarServer/twext/python/_plistlib.py”, line 403, in parse
parser.ParseFile(fileobj)
File “/usr/local/src/CalendarServer/twext/python/_plistlib.py”, line 415, in handleEndElement
handler()
File “/usr/local/src/CalendarServer/twext/python/_plistlib.py”, line 467, in end_string
self.addObject(self.getData())
File “/usr/local/src/CalendarServer/twext/python/_plistlib.py”, line 428, in addObject
self.stack[-1].append(value)
File “/usr/local/src/CalendarServer/twext/python/_plistlib.py”, line 298, in __getattr__
raise AttributeError, attr
AttributeError: append
If someone has a suggestion on how to fix this I would be very interested. For now I had a lot of time in this today, and I am not willing to spend more time on it.
I did it.
Lukemftpd is disconnected from the build, I will MFC this after three days, and start by looking into removing the code entirely. For the build disconnect see the commit log here:
http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/196787
or below:
Do the first step in removing lukemftpd from the base system. Disconnect
it from the build.
If you are using the FTP daemon, please consider using the port ftp/tnftpd
which is the same FTP server, but newer and might have more/better
functionality.
This results in us providing only one ftp daemon by default.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: imp (mentor, implicit)
MFC after: 3 days
Silence from: obrien
A long long long discussion had taken place around the two ftp daemons that we serve in our FreeBSD operating system. We had discussed that we would want to only serve on, and the security track record isn’t great either.
For this reasons I will be removing lukemftpd real soon now! If you use it from base, please consider using ftp/tnftpd instead, this port is more recent then the code in our base system, and can be updated when needed. It’s too late to rediscuss this.
I am waiting for a “make universe“ before I will commit this to head, and I will commit it to the 8-stable branch 3 days after the commit.
edit: 20090903: The category is ftp instead of net. Suggested by Thomas Abthorpe.
20090903: The universe build is almost complete, the most important architectures build fine.
Not too long ago I bought a WAP4400N from Linksys/Cisco. I was happy with it for the first hour, but after that it started working weird. Having three Apple devices in the house, the connection becomes spotty, frequently drops etc. I moved the device from the top floor, to the first floor, placed it in the middle of the living room (OK one floor above it); placed it on the topnotch of the house, it doesn’t matter. The connection mostly stops working after some time.
Apple Time Machine backups might make it appear quicker, resetting it makes it work again for a little. It ran fine for a little (more then a month!) but now the issues are back again. I cannot determine what the issue is and I cannot solve it. It was one of the most expensive consumer/small business grade device that I could afford and it does not meet my expectations (yet).
Ofcourse it could be that some interference is there, there are other WLAN devices around us, but it doesnt matter if you are near the antenna’s or not. If someone has some advise that I could persue then I would love to hear about it. I am already running the latest available firmware and I am in contact with Cisco to get this resolved, they are trying their best to help me resolve this, one of the things mentioned is that it might be incompatible chips (WAP and Apple).
Tips are very much welcome as said!
Edit:20090831 2150: Cisco just replied that they are onto it and will be investigating. I like their attitude and trying to resolve it. Eventhough it doesn’t work yet, it’s very nice to see that people are willing to look into it. Hopefully we can resolve this and find the problem.
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