FreeBSD 上編 ports 的時候，常常會有 options 選單跳出來。有時候想下完指令然後給他自己跑，結果到某一步又有選單跑出來，沒辦法繼續。不久之前看到了一個解決方式：config-recursive。一次將所有的 dependencies 設完再開始安裝。

若第一次安裝就用：

# make config-recursive install clean

其實 ports 有很多關於 make 的選項，都可以在 /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk 裡找到（大約 700 行的地方）。

We have the opportunity to interview Captain David Shennan, Harbour Master of Port of Melbourne Corporation as he talks about the significance role that Harbour Masters play in the daily operations of ports, current challenges for Harbour Masters, the theme for IHMA Congress 2010 and the main message he hopes to come out of next year’s congress.

Website: http://www.globalportoperations.com
Contact: +61 2 9080 4307

We have the opportunity to talk to Alan Birchmore of Fremantle Ports and Captain Eric Atkinson, Vice President of the International Harbour Masters Association, in regards to the upcoming International Harbour Masters Congress 2010 that will be held in Perth in 2010; its main focus, its benefits being some of the topics discussed.

Website: http://www.globalportoperations.com
Contact: +61 2 9080 4307

Submitted a PR for solang on FreeBSD.

En el vasto ecosistema de distribuciones Linux podemos encontrar de diferentes tipos, las dirigidas a usuarios de escritorio, servidores, muros de fuego, etc, etc. Una de las mas notables son aquellas que se manejan a través de código fuente, es decir, que no cuentan con un sistema de instalación de binarios (como deb, rpm o pkg) sino que basa en la optimizacion, y compilado de los programas.

Estas distribuciones están dirigidas a un usuario con conocimientos intermedios o avanzados sobre los sistemas Linux, o para aquellos que quieran un control total de un sistema. Como sea el caso, he aquí un listado y descripción de las mas importantes:

1.- Lunar Linux: Es una distribución, basada en Sorcerer, que permite la compilación e instalación de módulos (paquetes) desde moonbase (repositorios), gracias a su gestor de paquetes Lunar (como apt-get, pacman). Desde la instalación se permite configurar que tipo de optimizacion se usara en los paquetes.¿Que ventajas tiene esto sobre un sistema basado en binarios? Control sobre los paquetes, no hay que lidiar con dependencia innecesarias. Pueden descargarlo desde esta dirección.

2.- SourceMage: Linux con el poder de la magia…de la compilación. Esta es una distribución que basa en la metáfora de hechicería de lanzar y desencantar programas (optimizacion, cambiar CFLAGS, LDFLAGS), los cuales son llamados hechizos, todo manejado a través de su gestor de paquetes Sorcery . Una de las peculiaridades de esta distro es la organización de paquetes, en Grimoirs (llamado así por los libros de los hechiceros que contenían los encantos) que están en repositorios llamados Codex. Es un sistema que tiene muchos detalles y pueden descargar en esta dirección.

3.- Gobo Linux: ¿Cuantos directorios tiene la partición raíz de tu distribución? Pueden ser /boot, /var, /etc, /bin, /media, etc. Te imaginas un SO Linux donde todo en directorios como /Programas /Usuario /Sistema /Depot. Bueno de eso se trata Gobo Linux, viene a romper la tradición *Nix dando al usuario el manejo de archivos de la manera anterior. Claro que los programas están dirigidos a instalar a los directorios /usr, es ahí donde entra compile, la herramienta de instalación de Gobo (parecido a Portage) que contiene las instrucciones para la manipulación de los programas. El sistema aun no estable, pero puedes probar el LiveCD.

4.- Crux Linux, Arch Linux, Nutyx: Estas distros pueden considerarse híbridos entre los SO de código fuente y binarios, ya que pueden manejarse a través de un sistema de ports (en Arch Linux es ABS) o binarios listos para instalar (pkg.tar.gz en Crux y Arch Linux). Nutyx es mas nueva, y es un sistema “from scratch” con un gestor de paquetes de Crux Linux (pero esta dirigida a un publico francés).

5.- Gentoo: Gentoo no esta distribución del montón, y eso lo demuestra su poderos gestor de paquetes Portage (basado en los ports de FreeBSD), que agrega manejo de dependencias, instalaciones falsas, perfiles del sistema y mas. Lo que ocurre con portage, es que al seleccionar el paquete, este lo descarga y compila, generando los ejecutables y la documentación. Una distribución veterana y lista para usarse.

Update LFS: Crees que puedes hacer una mejor distribucion que [Inserte nombre de distro popular], bueno esta es tu oportunidad. Linux From Scratch es un proyecto, en el cual nos permite construir un sistema Linux, a traves de libros, estan dadas las instrucciones para crear un sistema desde 0 (puede ser desde un LiveCD o un sistema).

Aquí el recopilatorio, ¿han probado alguna? ¿Que opinan?

Little did I know what an interesting and charming place Halifax, Nova Scotia would be.  Besides knowing the name, I was ignorant about the place, which made it all the more entertaining when the Carnival Triumph slid into Halifax Harbor.

Georges Island, Halifax Harbor, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

As we passed an island that had a lighthouse and lighthouse keepers house, it appeared to have no people.  I had to look it up on Wikipedia after I got back to Columbus, Georgia, my home town, to learn about it. Indeed, there is no one on Georges island.  The lighthouse has been automated since the 1970’s. The Canadian government is working on turning it into a tourist attraction. After all, it has a historical fort, from which a shot was never fired in anger.

Noon cannon firing for tourists at Fort George, Halifax, NS

Only having a few hours to explore Halifax, we took a tour of the city on a London double-decker bus.  We saw a beautiful, clean town.  We stopped at a fort that is open to the puiblic, Fort George, which dates back to the 1700’s. A cannon is fired at noon every day for the tourists.  Halifax has never been attacked. But it had the two forts in case France, or, later, the United States decided to do it.  The Fort is now a park.  

We got off the bus at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.   If  you ever get to Halifax, don’t miss it.  you’ll learn a lot about the area’s history. Not only does it have a Titanic exhibit – survivors of the sinking were taken to Halifax, and a lot of those whose drowned bodies were recovered are buried in a Halifax cemetary – but it has have exhibits that explain that Halifax was a very important port in both World War I and II. Because it is a protected harbor that was safe from German submarines, it was the staging area for the convoys that took supplies to the United Kingdom in both wars.

Entrance to Halifax explosion of 1917 in Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, NS

The French also used the harbor in World War I, which led to a colossal disaster. It was and still is the largest accidental man-made explosion in the world. I learned about it while visiting the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. On December 6, 1917, SS Mont-Blac, a French cargo ship loaded with explosives destined to France, collided with the empty Norwegian SS Imo. The Mont-Blanc caught on fire, drifted close to shore, and exploded, destroying structures , killing 2,000 people and injuring 8,000. The explosion caused a tsunami in the harbor and a pressure air wave that demolished more buildings, grounded ships and carried fragments from the Mont Blanc for miles. I had never heard of it before.

1930 Snipe, a racing sailboat similiar to one I owned and raced, though this one is a lot older

I found the racing sailboat exhibit especially interesting because it sported a 1930 Snipe. I owned and raced a couple of Snipes for a number of years.  One was destroyed by a tornado at Lake Harding, which is north of Columbus,  on a Christmas day in the 1970’s. But that’s another story. Back to Halifax.

Having a 3-year-old friend who loves Thomas the Train, I found the exhibit about Canada’s answer to Thomas interesting.  The television program about Theodore the Tugboat was produced in Halifax and aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Kids love it, and still enjoy the re-runs and DVDs.  The actual real Theodore the Tugboat used for the show was docked nearby.  The model used for the annimated show, which is shown in the inset, is displayed in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada as seen from the Carnival Triumph cruise ship's dock All in all, we enjoyed Halifax. For one thing, we found a great Irish pub there where we had wonderful seafood chowder for lunch. Being the last stop, that should end this series of posts, but the trip back to New York had a little excitement. That will be the Cool Cruise finale. Don't miss it, and tell your friends to tune in!

Hi,

There would be some case, where we dont have access to the admin console, but have only access to the logs. In this case how can we find the HTTP and HTTPS port for default and admin.

To find the ports using Admin Console:

start the server, go to Servers->Application servers > server1 > Ports, scroll down to see the screenshot below

WC admin host: HTTP port for admin console

WC admin host secure: HTTPS port for admin console

WC defaulthost: HTTP port for default host

WC defaulthost secure: HTTPS port for default host

To find the ports using the System out logs:

Search for the below sentence in the logs

“Web Module WebSphere Admin File Transfer Application has been bound to admin_host” -  [*:HTTP,*:HTTPS]. This is for the admin HTTP and HTTPS ports

“Web Module Default Web Application has been bound to default_host” – [*:HTTP,*:80,*:HTTPS]. This is for the default HTTP and HTTPS ports

-Sudan

Lately, I’ve been playing around with Mac OS X Snow Leopard in a virtual machine.  Hey, you have to try it before you diss it!

I’ll save my overall review for later, but I just wanted to get this out to everyone: MacPorts?  It’s no hack.  In fact, it can rival or beat most major ports implementations.

For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about in terms of ‘ports’, it’s a generic name for a system that allows a user to rapidly download and install software from source.

While I originally thought MacPorts would be very hackish, at least compared to FreeBSD ports or even Gentoo’s Portage, the opposite may be true.  MacPorts is slick, smooth, reliable, has a very well chosen set of shell commands and options, and is in general excellent in nearly every way.  It excels at the one problem I’ve always had with ports systems — it is very hard to think out every angle for such a system, but MacPorts seems to do so almost completely.  So, everyone interested in making their own ports system?  Go try MacPorts, and learn from its awesomeness.

More info when I do a full OS X review!

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Ports, Water Supply, Petroleum & Electricity gazetted as Essential Services

The Ports, Water Supply, Petroleum and Electricity supply have been gazetted as essential services with effect from midnight Sunday, the government Information Department said.

The move came amidst reports that trade unionist were planning to prolong their union action by going on strike.

On Saturday talks between the CPC unions and Petroleum Resources Minister A.H.M.Fowzie and Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B.Jayasundra failed.

Unions have also claimed that UPFA politician Duminda de Silva had sent his supporters to intimidate CPC workers at Kolonnawa.

අකුරට වැඩට එරෙහිව හදිසි නීතිය එයි

ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිතුමා හදිසි නීති රෙගුලාසි යටතේ ඛනිජ තෙල්, විදුලිය, වරාය සහ ජල සම්පාන සේවා අද මධ්‍යම රාති්‍රයේ සිට අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය සේවා බවට පත් කිරීමට යයි. ජනාධිපති අත්සනින් යුත් එම ගැසට් නිවේදනය අද නිකුත් කිරීමට නියමිතය. වැඩි පඩි ඉල්ලා පසුගිය 11 වැනිදා එම අංශවල වෘත්තීය සමිති අකුරට වැඩ කිරීම ආරම්භ කළහ.

Money to modernize ports could come from unused federal Katrina-recovery funds.

Here are the basic ports for hosting a game server :

7777 (TCP/UDP)
28900 (TCP)
27900 (UDP)
28910 (TCP)

However, if you don’t manage to work things out, it could be the fault of the Windows Firewall. You must add the ports for Borderlands to go outside and receive connections for inbound.

More Ports:
3783 (Voice Chat Port)
27900 (Master Server UDP Heartbeat)
28900 (Master Server List Request)
29900 (GP Connection Manager)
29901 (GP Search Manager)
13139 (Custom UDP Pings)
6515 (Dplay UDP)
6500 (Query Port)

Update:
It appears that those 2 ports are the most important ones:
6515 (Dplay UDP)
6500 (Query Port)

I have used the ports collection to install JBoss 5.1 on my FreeBSD 7.2 Box. The installation went well and as usual, the ports installation process did all the downloading and compiling of the package and its dependencies.

After installation, I need to test it to start developing. So I did a command to start it
/usr/local/jboss5/bin/run.sh

All works well and JBoss starts. I opened a browser in my local machine and visited http://127.0.0.1:8080 and the JBoss start page is loaded.

Next thing I have to do is to access JBoss on a different machine.

I then used my netbook to access http://192.168.0.***:8080 to my surprise, I didn’t get a response and an error message was displayed in my browser. I then searched the web for an answer. After a couple of links I was able to get an answer. I need to start JBoss with the option -b 0.0.0.0 supplied to the script run.sh. By default JBoss is binded to 127.0.0.1, meaning only the local machine can access it. So I have to find a way to start JBoss passed with that option.

Here are the steps to make JBoss automatically started on boot:
1. Add these lines at the end of /etc/rc.conf
jboss5_enable="YES"
jboss5_flags="-Djboss.bind.address=0.0.0.0"

2. The default jboss5 script in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory does not work with -b 0.0.0.0. Therefore, you have to replace it by the /usr/local/jboss5/bin/run.sh script. After replacing it, the “start” “stop” and “restart” options does not work with the script, but if you want to, you are free to edit the script to include it.
mv /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jboss5 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jboss5-original-script
cp /usr/local/jboss5/bin/run.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jboss5

3. Create a bin directory at the /usr/local/etc/
mkdir /usr/local/etc/bin

4. Make a symlink for /usr/local/jboss5/bin/run.jar inside /usr/local/etc/bin
ln -s /usr/local/jboss5/bin/run.jar /usr/local/etc/bin/jbossrun.jar

5. Edit /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jboss5 so that jbossrun.jar will be the file needed to start it
vi /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jboss5

6. Find the line runjar=”$JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.jar” and replace it with runjar=/usr/local/etc/bin/jbossrun.jar

7. Run jboss by using (this does not include the start, restart, and stop options, again if you want to, you are free to edit the script to fit your needs)
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/jboss5

8. On your next restart of FreeBSD, JBoss will start and will be accessible to other machines.

Enjoy!

We got together with my friends travel agent again last night, we had dinner in an Italian restaurant and enjoyed the evening very much. He is a really nice person and very professional. Last night we felt as if we were taking advantage from him as we bombarded him with many more questions. Do you recall that my friends will be going in a cruise for holidays?  they got this cruise as a prize in a contest they participate in. As it is a prize, they have no choice but to take the cruise they gave them but all of us wanted to know the type of things we have to look for in order to get a good cruise deal in the future and here is what he advised:

1. Shop around he said, everyone is selling cruises right now, from Wal-Mart, Costco, travel agents who specializes in cruises, the travelling section of your Sunday newspaper, check what memberships might give you a discount, talk to friends and find out how they booked their last cruise.

2. Attention to the amount of time you will spend in each port; if you are excited about a particular place you will visit, check the time that the cruise will spend visiting, think of changing your dinner time if applies in order for you not to rush back to the cruise and be able to enjoy that magic place.

3.Consider travelling in off season; there a lots of cruise bargains out there and you will be able to avoid crowds. September through the beginning of December are generally slow times as well as the first 2 weeks in Janurary through June ( except for Easter week).

Nada que ver pero se ve chingona esta torre

Un hombre llamado Randy Pitchford que no es otro que el CEO de Gearbox a comentado lo siguiente para la revista OPM (Oficial Playstation Magazine) criticando la postura de de Doug Lombardy (miembro de Valve) hacia la programacion de PS3.

“I read it the same way I read fanboys,” he added. “Like there’s a guy who bought the Sony platform and he’s a Sony guy, so he decides he’s going to spend a certain percentage of his time bashing Microsoft. And there’s a guy on Microsoft doing the same thing. Those guys are childish and narrow minded; It’s the same kind of thing.”

Que traduccido vendria a decir mas o menos esto:

“Leo las declaraciones que hace Lombardy (Doug Lombardy de Valve) del mismo modo que leo a los fanboys. Es como el típico crío que se compra una plataforma de Sony y pasa a ser un Chico Sony, así que decide gastar cierto porcentaje de su tiempo insultando y desprestigiando a Microsoft. Y luego está el chico Microsoft haciendo lo mismo con Sony estos chicos son infantiles y cerrados de mente; con Valve pasa lo mismo.”

Tambien critico lo sucedido con la version de PS3 de orange Box (que es notablemente inferior a la version de 360 ) y el poco soporte que valve dio al juego “team fortress 2″ en su version de PS3 (donde el online es una verdadera basura) ya que hasta la fecha no cuenta con ninguna actualizacion.

Creo que definitivamente el dinero manda ya que segun las declaraciones de que en PS3 es mas complicado programar y cosas asi es una estupidez ya que esta demostrado que muchas compañias (un ejemplo es borderlands o incluso Batman Arkham Asylum) pueden hacer juegos multiplataforma con la misma calidad grafica en cada consola.

Pero bueno ustedes que opinan overdrivers ¿se les atravezo un billete a estos de valve o son el sequito del tio bill?

ECONOMY

Brazil will publish on Monday a preliminary list of U.S. goods it intends to hit with trade sanctions in retaliation for Washington’s cotton subsidies, a senior government official told Reuters.

Emboldened by emergency measures that helped pull Brazil out of a brief recession, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is intervening more aggressively in the economy and betting on big government (Reuters).

Brazilian congressional committees passed two of four bills designed to overhaul the country’s oil legislation and give the government greater control over vast new offshore reserves (Reuters).

BUSINESS

Mexico’s state oil company Pemex said it signed a letter of intent with a consortium led by Brazil’s Braskem SA to supply raw materials for a proposed petrochemicals plant the consortium may build in Mexico (Reuters).

Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer will produce its 120-seat E-190 jet in China to respond faster when the country’s aviation market recovers, O Estado de S. Paulo said (Reuters).

Brazilian iron ore mining company Vale signed an agreement worth 900 million reais ($520 million) over three years granting access to its railway and port operations to local steel maker Usiminas (Reuters).

ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaker, will partner with mining giant Vale to build a steel mill in southeastern Brazil as part of a plan to spend $5 billion in the South American country, Chief Executive Officer Lakshmi Mittal told daily Valor Economico (Reuters).

OIL & GAS

Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras said it signed an agreement to buy Chevron Chile, a producer and seller of industrial lubricants under the brand name Texaco in Chile, for around $12 million (Reuters).

Brazil’s Petrobras has found natural gas in Peru’s Amazon jungle and the discovery of about 1 trillion cubic feet could turn out to be much larger, Peruvian President Alan Garcia said (Reuters).

INVESTMENT

Gerdau, Brazil’s largest steelmaker, plans capital expenditures of 9.5 billion reais ($5.5 billion) for the 2010-2014 period, with around 80 percent of the investments within Brazil, Chief Executive Andre Gerdau Johannpeter said (Reuters).

REAL ESTATE

Brazil, a future host of the World Cup and the Olympics, is drawing global investor interest to its real estate sector. As investors and analysts predict a wave of investment in Brazil in coming months, read a sampling of recent deals at Reuters.

TELECOM

America Movil Chief Financial Officer Varlos Garcia Moreno said Brazil’s economic resilience will help its wireless industry outpace other Latin American countries through 2010 (Bloomberg).

BANKING

Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, will become a major financial center, “just like the City of London, Frankfurt and New York,” said Emilio Botin, chairman of Banco Santander SA (Bloomberg).