Programme Manager by day, IT geek and coffee snob/petrol head by day and night.

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    Karl’s Coffee Chronicles: A Journey from Bean to Brew

    I’m Karl, and like many of you, coffee is an essential part of my daily routine. It’s more than just a beverage for me; it’s a passion, a ritual, and a gateway to a global culture. Join me as I take you through the fascinating world of coffee, from its ancient origins to the cup…

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    Unlocking the Perfect Brew: Unveiling the Art and Science of Crafting Your Morning Coffee

    Are you tired of sipping mediocre coffee that fails to ignite your senses each morning? It’s time to transform your coffee routine from ordinary to extraordinary. In this guide, we’ll unveil the art and science of brewing your morning coffee to perfection. Get ready to elevate your coffee game and entice your taste buds like…

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    FreeBSD + Time Machine (Native ish backup solution for OSX)

    Most of the solutions I tried to setup for utilising time machine in OSX to backup to a FreeBSD server were essentially a Samba solution. (mapped drive), however it’s clear as updates progress for OSX it becomes rather messy and unfriendly from the user experience POV. I won’t take credit for this, but this article…

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    Finally Directadmin and FreeBSD 11.0

    After many months of testing and submitting bugs to Directadmin, there is finally an error and slick installation to Directadmin on FreeBSD 11. Previously a number of fixes had to be made in order to make certain aspects function i.e. Dovecot and PHP. The latest “officially” released version of FreeBSD with Directadmin is 9.x both…

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    Dell KVM / Avocent 2161 Java “Network connect error”

    New years eve I spent a significant amount of time, trying to battle Java and the Dell KVM software, happy new year? I tried multiple servers, different OS’s, different configurations, different browsers but no further, much swearing little I resolved it early hours this morning. The Error I saw every time was “Network connect error”…

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    Gaming Server neglection – Steam gaming

    My bad, I left it around 8 months before noticing my CSGO Server and my TF2 server were not being used. I have not played games so to speak for probably around 2 years now. I run these servers for fun, and allow others to have somewhere to play. I noticed the reason these servers…

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    hm…

    Well, seriously it’s been a weird few months. At home I now run ONE machine 24/7 which is a mac mini, makes a change from a multitude of quad xeons racking up the electricity bill, I must admit watching the meter go round and round is quite daunting. I must get to sell all my…

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    How to install an SNMP Server with FreeBSD ( made easy )

    My preference is using Net-SNMP which is included in ports, start by fetching the latest ports tree; # portsnap fetch # portsnap extract Then head over to the port location and install # cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp # make install clean Copy the sample configuration over to a working configuration if you need some examples cp /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf.example…

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    FreeBSD Concerns

    I have concerns in regards to FreeBSD starting to become a “user friendly” OS, my first gripe was when FreeBSD 10-RELEASE was announced/released which meant “pkg” became the global command instead of pkg_* Although I understand it is trying to make things easier, it makes me feel dirty, it makes me feel as if it…

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    FreeBSD Ports… who needs to stay up pressing return on prerequisites?

    So, you compile a port that is going to take *all* night or even longer and the dreaded “options” keeps appearing after every prerequisite towards a port. Before compiling the port if you type “make showconfig-recursive” it will present all the options before you compile, so now after you have decided the variables during compiling,…