Category: Operating System Rants

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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”…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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! 🙂