When we moved to a new apartment, I took my FreeBSD DNS server with us. We couldn’t get internet set up until today (about a month! – it was a nightmare) but I was using the DNS to ease our little network’s file and printer sharing. Even though we only have a few computers, it’s […]
Category Archives: Computer Stuff
Zsh glob qualifiers ftw!
I have a FreeBSD 7.1 server, a couple of macs, a windows machine, and an ubuntu machine. I need to share files between them all. I could try to get NFS for windows working, but it seemed to me that using Samba was a good way for me to allow all of the machines (Even […]
uninstall inactive!
Oh man I just realized that I never ran “sudo port uninstall inactive” and I have reclaimed… hmm… 5 gigs? It’s as simple as that – if you’re using macports for a while and you’ve been using “sudo port upgrade outdated” to upgrade, make sure you remove the old versions because after a while that […]
Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts
Having fun and solving problems can be mutually exclusive. Even for professional programmers and system administrators who chose their career because they enjoy problem solving, there can be times when finding a solution is an exercise in the mundane. Luckily, there are tools designed to ease the pain and frustration faced by programmers and admins. […]
Cups / FreeBSD / Windows Domain
So as you may know, I’m working on secret PHP project using the Zend Framework. It’s coming along well and I have been taking some notes on the server which is on the local network. I was about to download my notes and print them when I decided that printing directly from the FreeBSD server […]