A quick update and some scripts

Sorry I haven't updated my blog or other sites.I have been real busy at work and personal life. Sometimes it feels like I don't even have time for anything else! Anyway here goes the updates.

I haved poster some scripts on google code.
1. Portmaster Menu Sccript
2. VIRCS

Right now they are just scripts I uploaded, but I am going to use CVS to keep them updated. Also, I am going to try to convert the RCS script to use CVS as a future project.

I've got a VM for onlybsd.com

Well, after a friend of mine told me about buyvm.net, I had to try it. Even though it's not FreeBSD, it's still a darn good price. I got the base VM for only $3.50 a month which includes 256/512 megs of ram, 30 gig HD, and 1000 gigs of traffic a month! Right now it's running Ubuntu, but I'm thinking of re-imaging it to Debian.

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Finally an update!

I finally have some time to update my blog, I was bitten by a spider and the Doc wanted me off of my feet for a few days until the swelling went down.
So here goes. A lot has happened in the last 3 months. Let me see if I can remember it all and try to keep it short.

Work Related:
- work has been mighty hectic, a lot of projects, tasks, problems, etc... But I have learned a lot from it. As they say experience is the best teacher.
- I am studying for my ITIL certification.
- I am also studying for my LPI certification.
- I will be studying for my Solaris certification after my ITIL and LPI exams.
- I will be studying for my BSD certification after my Solaris exam.
- I will be studying for my COBIT certification after my Solaris and FreeBSD exams.
- Future - Study for my Cisco CCNA.
- Future - study for my Cisco CCSP.

Computer Related:
- I have dropped the rylos.co.cc domain! CO.CC was going to charge me for it when I subscribed for free. It's going to take me a while to update all my personal info on all the sites I have accounts on.
- Since I have gotten the BSD fever again. I decided to reordered my old domain onlybsd.com from GoDaddy.com.
- I also setup Google Apps for onlybsd.com.
- I redesigned my old site for www.OnlyBSD.com.
- I also setup a Tumblr site, Daily.OnlyBSD.com for daily updates.
- I also setup a FreeBSD wallpaper site for the the FreeBSD community.

Ports management in FreeBSD

After re-installing FreeBSD 7.1 for testing numerous time, I decided to not use portupgrade anymore. I have decided to switch to a non-db backend system with bpkg and portmaster for my ports management. Bpkg is da bomb, you can do all types of queries on installed/not-installed ports. My favorite is "bpkg -p $1 | egrep '^[a-z]'". I have added it as a function called "sp" to my .zshrc file. With the output I can just copy and paste to a portmaster line, now that's super easy. Be sure to check out all the options for bpkg.

My server install of FreeBSD

Well, after trying a few test install of FreeBSD 7.1, I have finally decided to stick with this one. This will be my network management headless server. This system will not have X installed so I have added "WITHOUT_X11=yes" to my /etc/rc.conf file to make sure nothing X will be installed. I always make sure before I install a port just in case it has some type of X dependencies.

Also, I will be testing out jails on this server. I'll keep notes and create a blog entry.