The Ignorant Hack

Author: Sean

  • Vertically Integrating Synergy … no really, this is a technical post

    Because I couldn’t find any help from the Internet-O-Tron today, let me put this little bit of quality suffering out there for your entertainment. I just completed murdering my linux box at the office and converted it over to FreeBSD Current with all the lovely Xorg goodness that I need it for.  Really, I only […]

  • Software Updates for Serial Cables

    Oh IPMI … *sigh* A rough and frustrating week trying to diagnose the silliest problem with our workplace’s deployment of IPMI.  I swear, I never needed a device driver for a DB-9 connector and cable to get this to work before.  I can’t for the life of me figure out why anyone would intentionally use […]

  • The midlife crisis mobile

    Finally got the ok to grab “my” car today fron Scion. Thr FR-S (and Subaru BR-Z) have been on my mind for months now after warching Jeremy Clarkson’s Top Gear review. I wouldn’t say that I’ve gone and broken any speed limits yet, that’s not what this car is for. I *can* say thay I’m […]

  • How to fry a router, in X easy steps: The Serial Console

    I’ve started to hack on my DLink DIR-825 B1 to get it running FreeBSD and have had some great success.  Adrian Chadd, adrian@freebsd.org put together a build system for this router and committed some of the needed changes to get this Atheros MIPS 24k based router working for us and I’ll try to document my […]

  • Refilling the radio percolator

    Tomorrow is my last Radio-Kol show before I go on hiatus.  When I logged on to my secondary KoL account this morning, I was greeted with a 5 year anniversay Concrete Fedora.  I was amused to say the least, since I created *that* account 1 day before my first show back in 2008. Taking a […]

  • The sacrifices we must make for science!

    Interesting day on the phone with DLink.  When I say “day”, I do mean DAY.  More or less, Monday must be DLink’s crazy time when everyone comes back from work and finds their office routers dead or something. The DIR-825 model C1 that I initially bought to test out MIPS on FreeBSD died a noble […]