A Quick Review of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for PC
I bought the Steam version of Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and played as a female Nord warrior named Amenia. I spent over 275 hours in Skyrim and finished my experience at level 52. I used a series of custom made warhammers throughout the campaign, and my traveling NPC companion was Lydia, another Nord […] Read More →
cron Howto
(20170327 — The steps in this post were amended to address changes in recent versions of software — iceflatline) cron is a time-based job scheduler in BSD, Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. It is commonly used to schedule system maintenance or administrative tasks, however it can also be used by system users to schedule […] Read More →
What’s Your IP?
I’ve added a Your IP tab at the top of the site that will bring you to a page that displays your current IP address as well as some other http connection-related information. A geeky little task I’ve been meaning to do for awhile now. Here’s the code I hacked together for it. As always, […] Read More →
Backup FreeNAS Files Remotely Using FreeBSD and rsync
FreeNAS is an open source storage platform based on FreeBSD that supports file sharing across Windows, Apple, and Unix/Linux systems. rsync is an open source file copying utility for Linux/Unix systems. It’s famous for its “delta-transfer” algorithm, which reduces the amount of data sent over the network by sending only the differences between the source […] Read More →
How to Install Apache, MySQL, PHP, and phpMyAdmin on FreeBSD
(20170107 — The steps in this post were amended to address changes in recent versions of software. Minor editorial corrections were also made — iceflatline) This post will describe how to install and configure Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin on FreeBSD for basic local web development. Once set up, you’ll be able to use your […] Read More →