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    Capsicum

    Saw this in the quarterly report - http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/free ... 77085.html I thought this sandboxing method for Solaris was neat - https://blogs.oracle.com/gfaden/entry/a ... sandboxing I wonder if it's possible to achieve something similar with FreeBSD?
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    Trying to compile Wine 1.4.1 port in FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE

    Re: Install a 9.1 port in FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE You could try installing the 1.4.1 binary for FreeBSD 10 from http://www.mediafire.com/wine_fbsd64#f08383483av15 which is via http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/wine/ It's 18 mths old so no idea whether it'll work with all the changes since then. At...
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    Managing updates on a production system

    Re: Manage updates production system Couple of examples, One could use pkg to remove compiled ports and/or their dependencies (these are usually installed when building from ports). You could also use it to check security notifications for binary and/or compiled programs.
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    File transfers to/from Windows from FreeBSD

    For single disk you could use the zfs set copies=2 <pool/filesystem> parameter for error correcting.
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    More info on NSA activities.

    Singling out Jason Applebaum's superb talk at 30c3 (due to FreeBSD being mentioned in slides) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vILAlhwUgIU Some awesome speeches regarding government activities and abilities, quite disconcerting - http://www.youtube.com/user/CCCen/videos
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    AppArmor alternative for FreeBSD?

    I recommend doing a search of this forum for "mls", there was quite a bit of discussion about that not so long ago. It may point you in the right direction.
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    Fixing Vulnerabilities

    Why not just run PCBSD in a vm?
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    mSATA?

    As an alternative to mSATA have you considered an SSHDD? eg http://www.ebuyer.com/480300-seagate-500gb-solid-state-hybrid-drive-sshd-st500lm000
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    FreeBSD High Performance Firewall

    Perhaps some material of interest? https://calomel.org/network_performance.html https://calomel.org/freebsd_network_tuning.html
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    pkg repository for FreeBSD 10

    Thanks for posting this. I saw http://pkg1.nyi.freebsd.org/ posted in another thread if people are looking for x86:32
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    Solved [Solved] Install FreeBSD 9 without bsdinstall

    1/ Sounds like a firewall or network issue. 2/ Should be able to alter swap's size with; zfs set volsize=nG rpool/swap
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    Which is your desktop environment?

    FreeBSD 10 KDE/wmii As above N/A
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    IOS 7 making people sick

    I laughed when I read about this. You have to wonder how people are blindly trusting their devices instead of their own eyes though. "Huh? that's the strangest looking bus on the road I'm meant to be taking!"
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    FreeBSD full disk encryption install and package repository

    SSD wear and tear On a 128 GB SSD with 12 GB set aside for the OS and writing 7 GB to disk every day, it would take 422 years to wear out the SSD. A Samsung 840 Pro is guaranteed for 5 years @ 40 GB writes/day. Building packages with ports-mgmt/poudriere is an alternative, a build instance per...
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    Kwooty update

    Kwooty is currenty at v1.0.1 (2013-04-01) while ports has v0.8.3 (2012-03-28). The current version of net/kwooty builds and runs with zero issues. No issues when building with archivers/par2cmdline-tbb to gain multi-threading par2 support and thus avoiding conflicts with news/sabnzbdplus...
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    FTP tarballs of current src...

    Daily snapshots can be found at https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/ In the ftp directory of the required arch/release you'l find the relevant src.txz
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    DTrace By Brendan Gregg, James Mauro

    The DTrace book is on offer until July 8th, use the code JULY4 to get it for $29 - http://www.informit.com/store/dtrace-dynamic-tracing-in-oracle-solaris-mac-os-x-and-9780132091510 For more info, sample chapter etc http://smartos.org/2013/07/03/smartoos-news-july-3-2013/...
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    FreeBSD in business world: some questions

    It might sound pissy but Linux kernel developers are pretty much constantly accused of passing off security vulnerabilities as simple bugs. It would not be unfair to say there is a very lax attitude to publishing security advisories.
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    Skype with (s)care

    Anyone tried WebRTC via Firefox or Chrome/Chromium?
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    BSDCan 2013 Videos

    A (not ideal) workaround would be to reference the BSDCan schedule
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