Vincent's Blog

As you know, I'm using Openbox + Tint2 on OpenBSD. Tint2 is a very nice panel bar which has lot of flexibility. On this page I'm presenting my calendar application which allow you to copy/paste the selected dates.

I do no know if this will be useful, but it was fun for me to develop it. I spent only few hours to have it. And it's rare to mention, it runs on windows too.

Roman Zolotarev contacts me in order to answer some of his questions. Basically his idea is to help beginners to discover and use BSD operating systems and related projects.

You have selected OpenBSD because this is one of the most secured OS (maybe the most secured :-) ), but people around you ask to go further. Your current machine is directly facing internet and some people fear that this machine could be compromised. In this blog I will explain what I did to secure one of my machine.

I'm a big fan of cron on my servers to trigger several tasks: monitoring reports, backups, security checks, ... But I was annoyed that on laptops such tasks are not possible. Mainly because the laptop does not always run, or is not always connected to the correct network.

So, as explained in one of my previous blog, existing solution does not fully fit my needs. So, vdcron was born.

This blog mark the release 0.5.3 of vdcron

nmctl is no more maintained
Some additional words concerning my nmctl script: improvement, communication, ...

I was looking for a simple cron like tool that help me to perform tasks on one specific day on my laptop and desktops.

Unfortunately the embedded cron in OpenBSD is not foreseen for workstations or laptop that we shutdown (or hibernate) regularly.

nmctl is no more maintained
In this blog I've shared with you my small script allowing a easier Network management tool for OpenBSD. This blog will present some enhancements on this tool

As discussed in this blog, I'll detail battery snippet for Tint2.

As discussed in this blog, I'll detail my Audio snippet for Tint2.

As discussed in this blog, I'll detail my Network snippet for Tint2.

As discussed in this blog, I'll detail my NFSs snippet for Tint2.

After having developed my own version of PyPanel, I finally prefer Tint2 which offers lot of flexibility and, in fact, match all my requirements. Let me explain you how I'm using this small peace of code.

nmctl is no more maintained

I propose you a small script allowing you to easily manage your networks connections. This script is integrated within the openbox dynamic menus. Moreover, it allow you to automatically have the connections you have pre-defined based.

Let me just share my feedback on those 2 days spent in Paris for the EuroBSDCon. My 1st BSDCon.

I'm not a developer, contributor, ... Do not expect to improve your skills with OpenBSD with this text :-)

I know, we are on Octover 16th, and the EuroBSDCon of Paris was 3 weeks ago :(. I'm not quick !!! Sorry for that

On some machines we are forced to perform the not recommended upgrade procedure. Since several years I'm applying this method on 2 of my machines without problems.

But, after the upgrade process of OpenBSD from 6.0 to 6.1, syspatch was not running as it should.