Changing your keyboard mapping When you are sitting at the computer, typing away at the keyboard, you don’t give much thought to the process of how those simple strokes translate into characters on the screen. Well, if you do, then you shouldn’t be reading this article. You are probably familiar with the ASCII codes. The …
Make the keyboard work on a headless server (read also about t-shirts!) Last week I bought a computer from the fine folks at OEM Express. It is a AMD Duron 900MHZ with 128MB RAM, a 32X CDROM, and a Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM UDMA133 drive. No keyboard. No mouse. No monitor. This box is destined to …
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My travels with a computer You’ll notice that I didn’t say laptop. That’s because I don’t own a laptop. But I wish I did. If you get one message from this article, it will be the advantages of a laptop over a tower case. This trip was planned at very short notice. I decided on …
IRC Hints IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a great tool. There are channels dedicated to every topic you can think of. And many topics you would not want to know about. IRC is also a popular place to obtain support and help with various tools, including FreeBSD. There are many channels available on many different …
Customizing Console Fonts Written by Troy Bowman After playing with slackware for a while I got pretty excited about some interesting fonts that they have to replace the very boring and generic console font. A couple of the fonts I liked were "t" (technical) font and the unorthodox "scrawl" font. Instantly, I remembered the ability …
NIC blows up When I was writing the Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box article, the 486 box stopped working. During the make install, it panic’d and rebooted. After that, I couldn’t reboot the box. It kept failing with: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a /: bad dir ino 2 at offset …
The dual XEON box takes shape This page will record the progress of the dual XEON box I’m building up. It contains some photographs, an explanation of how I assembled the box, a list of the box hardware, and a request for donations of hardware needed to get the box up and running. Background While …
cvs – create your own repository cvs is an open source version control software. It is pretty widely used. It also forms the basis for the FreeBSD source code tree. This article talks about creating a cvs repository for your own project. You can put anything into cvs so long as it’s in a file. …
Epson PhotoPC 650 Chris Silva wrote this article about installing and configuring a digital camera. Getting the Epson PhotoPC 650 running under FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Your options at this point are: Get the Linux port of gphoto or use the ported version. If should you *want* the Linux port, you need to look at the stuff …
man pages – they are searchable I learned something the other day on undernet #freebsd which I think everyone should know. You can search a man page. WOW! It appears that man accepts vi-like commands. The search command is /texttosearchfor. For example, if you are looking at man dump, and you want to find …