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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We are back in the room
After getting bored and completely destroying my entire website, I decided to recreate. Please bare with me whilst I redesign/create eveything! :)