Following up on a previous post about YAIFO (Yet Another Installer For OpenBSD), the Yaifo site seems to still be down.

I had previously patched the Yaifo distribution to update it for OpenBSD 4.0. But, I only patched the i386 part of the tree (and its RAMDISK_YAIFO file). Since I needed Yaifo today to upgrade a Sparc64 box, I took the time to bring the RAMDISK_YAIFO kernel files for sparc, sparc64 and alpha up to 4.0 too.

You can download my new OpenBSD 4.0 Yaifo 0.2 patch file or the patched tarball. You can still download my copy of the original Yaifo 0.2 distribution.

Let me know if you have any problems (or successes).

I needed to renew a couple SSL certs at my office today. My brother had good things to say about Go Daddy’s SSL certificates. He told me they’re cheap and they are supported by all browsers he tested. They support OpenBSD. Plus, I’ve been happy with them as a registrar. So, I gave them a shot.

I manage a lot of servers at work and several of my certificates were to expire soon. Plus I was using some self-signed certificates on some servers. Given that I could use certificates on more than 10 servers, I decided to go with a wildcard certificate. That means that I can use this certificate for any host with a “*.mydomain.com” address.

The process couldn’t have been easier. After creating a key and a certificate signing request (csr) for “*.mydomain.com”, I was able to go through their web interface and was finally emailed a link to download both the certificate and an intermediate CA chain file.

Thanks, Go Daddy.

Given interest from others in the Maryland area, I’ve started the Maryland BSD Users Group website. The goal is to hopefully find other interested Maryland (DC and Virginia) BSD users and developers to get together and discuss different topics related to managing and developing BSD.

There aren’t enough members yet to have regularly scheduled meetings. But, I guess we had an impromptu meeting tonight at the Olney Grille. :)

If you’re interested in joining, please email me.

I happened upon a new video podcast the other day that is just great. It’s funny and smart and very entertaining. the show with zefrank features Ze Frank as a talking head presenting mostly current events in a humorous way. The writing (is it writing?) is clever, funny and thoughtful. The show is very well done and it is currently my favorite podcast.

Ze’s thinking, so you don’t have to.

Be sure to check him out. And if you enjoy it, be sure to digg his podcast after digging Will’s.

You might also notice a new category on the sidebar: Podcasts. These are the podcasts that I’m currently interested in. Check them out.

I got sick of my old Picture Gallery (which was running Gallery, by the way). It was WAY too slow and cumbersome. So I built a small framework around igal.

The new Picture Gallery is simple and fast and easy for me to maintain. I’m going to write a nice little CGI script to allow us to easily post pictures to the site (soon-ish).

I’ll be migrating pictures from the old Gallery and importing new pictures over the next few <insert time period here>. Be patient.