As you’re probably aware by now, my current pet project is installing FreeBSD on my new (a relative term!) Libretto 70CT, and on today’s agenda is building a custom kernel with the right PCMCIA card support.
Wednesday 17th March 2010
Sunday 14th March 2010
Having fun with FreeBSD on my Libretto this afternoon, I didn’t have internet access to install Vim from ports so I decided to finally learn more about the bundled nvi editor. I missed syntax highlighting, but if you customise it right it’s still a nice, lightweight, capable editor.
Saturday 13th March 2010
And it works! Yays! ^_^ I’ll be detailing how on Sunday when I have more time, suffice to say it was far more complex and time consuming than I imagined it would be. The Windows 95 partition has also been preserved, albeit in a smaller partition.
It may be a nerdy thing to admit, but working on puzzles like this and solving them is just about the greatest feeling in the world. ^_^
Friday 12th March 2010
As a FreeBSD guy (and even on my Linux boxes) I’ve been using tcsh as my shell for years, but I never noticed this easter egg before. If you have your prompt defined to show the time with %T, at the top of each hour (as my American friends say it) it replaces the time with the word "DING!", how cute!
Chan-andler Bing Ding! Ring a Ding Ding, it’s a new hour! Is it sad that something like this made my day?
Thursday 04th March 2010
I tried to extract a ZIP file I was send this afternoon and got the following error with unzip…
It’s one of those age old questions (adjusted for inflation), what would you do if you suddenly had 100 million dollars?
Thursday 18th February 2010
I didn’t have this much trouble burning FreeBSD 8.0. Its interesting it’s not afraid to burn a CD with a daemon logo, but slap a blue hat on a guy and suddenly it freaks out. I suppose though it’s an improvement that it’s not telling me to talk to myself!
Tuesday 16th February 2010
Having dabbled in a ton of different languages lately, I felt the overwhelming urge this week just to get back to some good ol’ C, and what better and more productive way to do so that to mess around with ncurses!
Saturday 13th February 2010
Wednesday 10th February 2010
While I was quick to point out the release of Apple’s Aperture 3 software, perhaps even bigger news is KDE 4.4 now available. Time to check out openSUSE or Mandriva again soon?
