RaspBSD

A reminder. If you are installing RaspBSD following the instruction from here then the default disk size is going to be 2GB no matter the size of the Micro SD card you’re using. This can be […]

How To Check Internet Connection On a Mac

People find me with various questions about computers. I decided to create a video how to check internet connection on a Mac hoping to help the ones in need. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9u_ZQoPQvY]    

The UNIX system family tree: Research and BSD

One of my friends shared this link with me today. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/share/misc/bsd-family-tree The UNIX system family tree: Research and BSD ——————————————— First Edition (V1) | Second Edition (V2) | Third Edition (V3) | Fourth Edition (V4) […]

Some Mikrotik Masquerading

mikrotik

There are plenty of good tutorials how to create a L2TP/IPsec VPN or OpenVPN on Mikrotik, though not many mention what rule you need in your firewall if you wan to be able to access […]

Beastie stockings

The perfect Christmas present for a FreeBSD fan You can have yours from https://www.etsy.com/listing/496638945/freebsd-beastie-christmas-stocking

MOTD on Mikrotik

mikrotik

To set up a welcome message/message of the day on Mikrotik equipment use: system note edit note It is always cool to have a personalized message welcoming you 😉

OS-X – change username/home directory – El Capitan

As you may know when you change your username in OS-X you must change the home directory as well to match the new username (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201548). Now in El Capitan when you change the home directory […]

Incorrect argument handling in sendmsg(2)

To all the FreeBSD users out there, don’t forget to update your systems. The sendmsg(2) system call allows to send data to a socket. The data may be accompanied by optional ancillary data. For details please […]

El Capitan, Xcode 7.2, MacPorts

In case you are wondering why some ports fail to build after upgrading to El Capitan or upgrading Xcode to version 7.2 here is the detailed answer: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#xcode7.2 In my case issuing a simple chmod and chown […]