The Dell PowerEdge R300has a Broadcom 5722 network card, which isn’t supported by the latest release of FreeBSD (7.0). Patches for the Broadcom 5722 are in the development versions of FreeBSD, but in order to get the development versions, it’s easiest if you have net access, which is hard without a working network card. The […]
Monthly archives: June 2008
What makes banana chips healthy?
Seen on BBC Breakfast this morning in an interview about the government’s 5-a-day campaign: Q: “What’s in banana chips that makes them healthy?”A: “Banana”
A replicated filesystem proposal for FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a favourite operating system of mine. I’ve been using it for several years, starting with 5.0. One of the things that was new with 5.0 was GEOM – a disk infrastructure which is more flexible than the previous system. The number of geom providers has expanded over the years, to about 20 today, […]
6 months of the iMac
It’s now 6 months since I got my iMac. So what do I think of it? The most important fact is that nothing major has gone wrong (yet, as if that’s not tempting fate). I still occassionally get my ” and my @ the wrong way round, as I still use a Windows PC frequently, […]