Posted on Tue 02 January 2024 in Security • Tagged with Linux, FreeBSD, Admin, ssh, tmux, zsh
Having secure remote access that's still convenient is key when you're travelling. My setup is very old, but still works perfectly. The remote access I need is mostly terminal access, as I have a lot of tools on terminal to access my important data remotely.
I use …
Posted on Sat 23 December 2023 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, performance
FreeBSD 14 was released a few weeks ago. One of my home servers has been running FreeBSD for many years. The system has been upgraded from version to version and works like a charm. Some jails are used to separate services provided by the box and ZFS as a file …
Posted on Thu 27 December 2018 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD
When I was sorting out some old photos, I came over one showing my old Alpha 800. I found it at my father’s company when I was still in school. They didn't use it anymore back in that days and I …
Posted on Sun 17 May 2015 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, link.work, workshop
Last Friday I held the first FreeBSD workshop in our new link.work location in Landshut. It was a lot of fun for the 12 participant and me.
The first workshop introduced the FreeBSD basics and the installation procedure. It was a hands on workshop which means that everyone had …
Posted on Mon 13 April 2015 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, Installparty, workshop
Today I want to announce that I will organize a small FreeBSD workshop on 15 May 2015 in our new link.work location in Landshut near Munich, Germany. The link.work is a center of IT-companies and software developers. My company called BayCIX is one of the five founders of …
Posted on Fri 16 January 2015 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, KeePass, mono, security
Using a password safe can make the life much easier. You can store your passwords encrypted for each service and if you need a new password, there is a password generator included as well.
To have the same password safe on all Linux/Mac/BSD machines you can use KeePass …
Posted on Mon 05 January 2015 in FreeBSD • Tagged with development, FreeBSD, FreeBSD CURRENT
When I installed FreeBSD, I stumbled over a bug with my T420. I now want to help fix it or to implement a workaround for my T420 to use it with gpt and ZFS-Root, Therefor I needed to setup a development environment for FreeBSD on my Thinkpad. To make this …
Posted on Sun 04 January 2015 in FreeBSD • Tagged with audio, ffmpeg, FreeBSD, kdenlive, maya usb 22, microphone, oss, screen cast, video
This tutorial shows you how you can use kdenlive on FreeBSD to create a screen cast. I am using a Maya 22 USB to record speech from a Rode microphone. This works fine, too.
If you have ffmpeg already installed you need to check if …
Posted on Fri 21 November 2014 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, KDE, kdm, nvidia, nvidia-driver, UEFI
This tutorial is about installing the latest stable FreeBSD 10.1 with UEFI and run a desktop with KDE with a NVIDIA video card.
With my motherboard is does not work to boot UEFI if the CMS compatibly mode is turned off completely. Someone else second this problem …
Posted on Wed 15 October 2014 in FreeBSD • Tagged with ACPI, FreeBSD, gpt, T420, Thinkpad T420, Xorg
This post is about installing FreeBSD 10.1 RC2 or FreeBSD 11 - CURRENT on a Thinkpad T420 with Intel graphics. This is for testing only up to now!
The T420 comes with an unpatched BIOS/UEFI bug which prevents to boot from a default …