FreeBSD upgrade from 5.5 to 6.2

It’s finally time to upgrade FreeBSD on my main server, and there doesn’t appear to be a ton of information on how to do so using sources. Although I successfully upgraded a FreeBSD workstation using binary methods, I have a mildly customized kernel on the main box, and I generally just prefer to use source/CVS [...]

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fetchmail (and AOL)

For a number of reasons, I’ve kept my AOL email account, but have naturally incorporated it into a single mailbox using fetchmail and AOL’s imap interface. I noticed that fetchmail started doing this all of a sudden:

fetchmail[90687]: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local issuer certificate
fetchmail[90687]: Server certificate verification error: certificate not trusted

After some [...]

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eBay Scam with Bidpay

For future reference, I don’t think I’ll ever purchase something through eBay again without using Paypal — at least with Paypal, if something goes wrong, you can generally get your money back. In this case, I used a legitimate-looking service called “Bidpay.”

The next day, I got a note from eBay’s Loss Prevention Department:

Our records [...]

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