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You need to construct additional pylons. Building wine for #FreeBSD
I’ve been playing Blizzards’s Starcraft 2 on Linux via wine emulation lately and thought I’d see if I can get the same thing working on FreeBSD via the emulators/i386-wine-devel port. After talking with the fine folks in #bsdports on EFNet, I finally found a recipe that is poudriere friendly and seems to spit out something […]
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Moving forward by going slightly backwards and to the right, UEFI booting on #FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Foundation has been working towards the future of booting in x86 and catching up to our friends in Linux-land by sponsoring work on a UEFI enabled boot loader. This work was taken on by Benno Rice (benno@freebsd.org) and Ed Maste (emaste@freebsd.org). So far, it appears that one can indeed boot FreeBSD as I […]
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The Unusual Suspects, #FreeBSD Vendor Summit 2013
I was fortunate enough this year to be able to help the FreeBSD Foundation host the 2013 Fall Vendor Summit at my workplace, Yahoo. Our facilities in Sunnyvale are very first class and I like to help out with my non-technical resources whenever possible (because, frankly, if you’ve seen my code, you would prefer it […]
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the powderkeg. #FreeBSD
FreeBSD has grown up a lot in this release cycle. The most useful tool from the 10.0/11.0 world in a long time, poudriere (powder keg in French) has made my ports usage almost trivial now. More or less, poudriere is a tool that allows you to build ports packages compatible with the new PKGNG format […]
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The Short List #7: wpa_passphrase on #FreeBSD. Because plaintext passwords are dumb.
If you have configured wireless networks on your FreeBSD laptop/pc. You can use wpa_passphrase to make the password entries more obscure with the use of wpa_passphrase. For example, given the following network entry in wpa_supplicant.conf: network={ ssid=”BRUNO” scan_ssid=1 priority=5 key_mgmt=WPA-PSK psk=”Super Secret Plain Text Password” } wpa_passphrase can give you a psk entry that is […]