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Booting Linux on the Pine64 Ox64 SBC
The Ox64 (notice that is a letter 'O' not a 0) is a tiny microcontroller sized single board computer from Pine64. The Ox64 is built around the bl808 SOC from Bouffalo Lab. It has one application level...
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BSDCan 2023
In the Days before my fiancée and I explored Ottawa a bit, got stranded in a forest in Quebec and did our usual tour of coffee shops and book stores (got to make sure your bags are heavier on the way...
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Booting FreeBSD on the RISC-V VisionFive2
The VisionFive 2 is a RISC-V based single board computer from Starfive integrating their JH7110 SoC. The board is available from Waveshare on its own or with some handy components to get you started....
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Some ideas I picked from the electromagnetic fields
I made it to and from the Electromagnetic Field . It was quite an experience to return to a hacker large event after so many years. A real review of the event will appear in the FreeBSD Journal this...
View ArticleSome Links About Thinking and Thinking About Work
The irony of writing a links post containing a bunch of links about productivity as a form of procrastination isn't lost on me. Mission Statement | Revue How To Not Suck At Writing | Defector Fifty...
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Assembling a Dual Processor VAX
Castor and Pollux/samd21g18a.ld at main · wntrblm/Castor and Pollux Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? MIPS Assembly Programmming A Dual Processor VAX*11/780 Here are...
View ArticleSome Classic Computing Links
Some Sunday evening reading about keeping old computers alive. A Continuous Integration Pipeline for the PDP-11 (2.11BSD) - Aaron S. Jackson Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” network – Matt's Tech...
View ArticleSome Links
Once a month for the podcast I read through about 20 articles so I know what to talk about on the show . This week when I was reading the article I thought 'this is really easy, maybe I can do this...
View ArticleUpdating mlx4en Firmware on FreeBSD
My testbed has Nvidia/Mellanox/Chelsio 10GbE network cards which are quite old, but sit well in the price (super cheap) usability (they work great on FreeBSD ond Linux) spectrum. There is an issue on...
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FreeBSD/Ubuntu Dual-boot testbed using Desktop Hardware
Tony needed his computers back, he is a great friend and so he offered me some replacements. This means that we get to make version 2 of the "The Bedroom by the bed testbed" . The first version of the...
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FreeBSD/Ubuntu Dual Boot Homelab in The Bedroom by the bed testbed
Current events have meant that my work place is now my home office, frustratingly this is also where I sleep. On one hand this has resulted in a very short commute, but on the other hand it does mean...
View ArticleAdvanced Documentation Retrieval on FreeBSD
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 04:23:20PM -0400, ░▒▓░░ ░▐░▒ wrote: > Hi Tom. > I just not realized you've not have your inbox assaulted by our listener > feedback. Is there a specific address you'd...
View ArticleBlog more in 2020
In June I tried to write 4 blog posts and I elicited help from some of my friends to do this. I managed to write 5 posts beyond the announcement I would blog: Capturing a screen sub section with...
View ArticleSimple ipfw NAT for bhyve virtual machines and vnet jails
Most of the time, I want to do some throw away networking temporally to play with something or to try something out. I really don't like changing all the config on a machine just to try something. The...
View ArticleQuick and Dirty Network Scanning
Ever want to scan a subnet in the nosiest, least reliable way and generate too many processes while doing so? Yes? Well do I have a script for you: #!/bin/sh default=172.20.10 if [ -z $1 ] then...
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My Streaming Setup
In April and May I did some streaming on twitch of hardware hacking projects . I started this as a way to work through the material for my cancelled BSDCan hardware hacking tutorial. With the tutorial...
View ArticleCommand Line Bug Hunting in FreeBSD
FreeBSD uses bugzilla for tracking bugs, taking feature requests, regressions and issues in the Operating System. The web interface for bugzilla is okay, but if you want to do a lot of batch...
View ArticleFreeBSD on the Intel 10th Gen i3 NUC
I have ended up with some 10th Gen i3 NUC's ( NUC10i3FNH to be specific) to put to work in my testbed. These are quite new devices, the build date on the boxes is 13APR2020 . Before I figure out what...
View ArticleCapturing a screen sub section with ffmpeg
I tooted me scrolling through the browser tabs I opened from the Black Producers bandcamp list . I used ffmpeg to to grab a subsection of the screen with this command: ffmpeg -f x11grab -show_region 1...
View ArticleHelp me blog more in June
This is a post on my blog. I both have a blog and enjoy blogging. I think a blog is the perfect way to keep notes for myself with the nice possibility that they might help someone else. I frequently...
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