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08/25/2008

manlinker - another small Blosxom plugin

I am a lazy programmer, I am an admin and I don't like to type things more than once if I can avoid it. hubertf has a world-class blog and he carefully links all references to manpages like etcupdate(8) or rcorder(8) and several others. I don't want to write the a href links all the time so I wrote a small blosxom plugin for it. This plugin parses the article for patterns like manpage(mansection) and converts it to a HTML link to the NetBSD online manpages. Right now I don't have any fine tuning possibilities inside the script, I just wanted something for NetBSD. If someone sends me some feedback about it, I'll include other manpage cgi script locations as well. FreeBSD has a very nice interface to the manpages, including the NetBSD manpages. However, they don't have NetBSD -current, so I am using the original NetBSD manpage script.
This plugin has no installation dependencies or other things to deal with, just download it, drop it inside your blosxom plugins directory and you are ready to go.

Download the plugin here

written by: Ulrich Habel (rhaen)

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I'm updating to -current

Well, I am not a thrillseeker, I am not an adventurer, I am not a wizard and I am not a code hacker, I am a plain user who uses NetBSD for his own work, his own ideas, usually for Perl hacking and sometimes for small parts of C code. So I am a whimp.
However, I like NetBSD and the development hardcode team and I decided to gave the new 4.99.72 a shot and installed it on an USB stick. My IBM Thinkpad X40 can boot from an USB stick and I looked into the new version, checked out the new logging features of the filesystem and the great acpi abilitities. The update went fine, only a some work after etcupdate(8) has to be done.
I complained about non working ath(4) support on the current-users mailing list of NetBSD.org and it seemed to be fixed by someone in the meanwhile. ACPI support however failed badly and my Thinkpad won't be able to suspend to RAM. This is not a big issue as it didn't work for me in NetBSD-4.0 either, however that should be improved before 5.0 will see the light. I replied to my mail on current-users about ath0. Right now I see some messages like:

Aug 25 09:13:37 /netbsd: ath0: device timeout (txq 1, txintrperiod 5)
Aug 25 09:13:43 /netbsd: ath0: device timeout (txq 1, txintrperiod 4)
Aug 25 09:14:03 /netbsd: ath0: device timeout (txq 1, txintrperiod 3)
Any ideas? The recompiling of all the pkgsrc things is just running. All things will be recompiled - see my post before :)

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written by: Ulrich Habel (rhaen)

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