Author: Sean

  • A bit of #ZFS Faff on Ubuntu 22.04

    I’m a ZFS on Root guy, so I get to be my own support on most days. Today, I wanted to see how hard common tasks that I once did on #FreeBSD with ZFS tools would be. Namely, I wanted to pluck out a 250G drive from my Root Pool and replace it with a […]

  • More #FreeBSD Power Saving Notes

    Its been a while since I needed to be mobile with FreeBSD again. I remembered that there’s several out of the box tuning things that you should do in /etc/rc.conf and a few modules you should load for your mobile workstation. These will slow your laptop down when running of battery and should give you […]

  • FAT32 on FreeBSD

    I couldn’t find any examples of executing a newfs_msdos for a FAT32 filesystem while I was working on some FPGA stuffs here at the house tonight. The fine folks in the FreeBSD Discord were able to guide me to the following in order to build a working file system on my 2GB SD Card. As […]

  • Stashing linux away for the day you need it.

    I need a Linux VM on my FreeBSD machine for a bunch of FPGA dev work. Thanks to a bunch of folks on the Internet, we have a pretty quick and dirty way of getting Linux setup via bhyve. Because I was trying to do things via wireless networking, I couldn’t use the most common […]

  • The Case of the Missing Screws

    I have come into possession of a medium sized pile of Apple IIe hardware. Its completely disassembled. Cases, power supplies, motherboards, keyboards, expansion cards are just piled up in anti-static bags in a cardboard box or two. I’ve started tested and repairing things to get them up and working again. Started sorting things around, and […]

  • The Shortlist #10: PHP modules

    I really just meant to post a quick note this morning on two gotchas I tripped over when trying to integrate the cell phone and my FreeBSD Jail of WordPress. Bah. Good luck with that. Error #1: WordPress detonates when I try to post and becomes unresponsive. /var/log/nginx/error.log shows: PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught […]