Category: Hardware
A Summary of My Computing/Communication Environment
December 11th, 2011I'm writing this mostly so I can refer to it from other postings. It's not all that interesting in itself.Hardware and SoftwareWe're a mostly BSD and Mac shop here at home. Kirk and I each have a BSD box (he runs PC-BSD, I run FreeBSD) that are… more »
Booting FreeBSD 8.2 on a Soekris box over the network
June 15th, 2011I've been working on bringing up a new Soekris net5501 box onFreeBSD 8.2. Since the Soekris boot ROM doesn't understand locallyattached CD-ROM drives, you have to do this over the network. There'san excellent discussion of how to do that herebut… more »
My dream KVM switch
September 20th, 2008I've got several machines on or under my desk at home: my FreeBSD server, a mac mini, and a laptop, but only one keyboard and monitor. No problem, just use a KVM, right? Well, I'm on my fourth (or is it fifth?) KVM switch and I'm still trying to find o… more »
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