starting with Jails in FreeBSD...

For some time i have been looking into how to better isolate key services like mail server, web server and streaming server and relocate them onto a VM machine or as a long term user of FreeBSD using the jails service for this.

The main reason, or the good reason to use jails instead of a VM ...

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security output log on my server...

It has been a while that i keep getting these warnings on the daily security log on one of my servers:

Checking for packages with mismatched checksums:
python3-3_3: /usr/local/bin/pydoc3
python3-3_3: /usr/local/bin/python3
python3-3_3: /usr/local/bin/python3-config
...

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start recovery mode on macOS...

Sometimes you will need to recover a Mac to have it running again, or you want to have a fresh install or set it to the initial factory settings.

In this new world of no more CD/DVD discs, you can go the route of preparing a USB memory stick with an macOS install image, but that always requir...

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splitting up a subversion repository...

During the years, and to get myself organized and have a bit more control over some of the code development, i started a source repository (not just code, but all kinds of things inclusive a document storage) using initially CVS and then migrated to Subversion.
With different projects, different ...

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