How to Forward Root’s Mail to a Another User in FreeBSD
(20190119 — The steps in this post were amended to address changes in recent versions of software — iceflatline) After setting up a FreeBSD system I can sometimes go long stretches without becoming the superuser again. When I finally do issue the su command I’m usually presented with the line “You have mail.” I sigh […] Read More →
Diablo 3 Sucks and Here’s Why
Diablo 3 is likely game that needs no introduction to you gamers out there, but for those of you that may have been off world for the last six months, Diablo 3 is an action-oriented role-playing “hack and slash” game by Blizzard Entertainment, released in North America on May 15, 2012 and selling ~3.5 million […] Read More →
Mint Analytics Added
Friends, a quick post to let you know that I’ve added Mint to the site. What’s Mint? It’s a self-hosted web site analytics program. I was interested obtaining more information about who is referrering readers to the site, popular pages, top searches, etc, but found the tools offered by my web host bluehost lacking. Here’s […] Read More →
Atom Syndication Feeds Added
From the department of “I should have done this a long time ago,” I have added Atom syndication feeds to www.iceflatline.com. Now in addition to RSS you can use Atom to track posts and comments using the URLs https://iceflatline.com/feed/atom/ and https://iceflatline.com/comments/feed/atom/ respectively. These links have also been added to the “Meta” section to the right. […] Read More →
How to use Clonezilla to Create and Backup Disk Images to FreeNAS
FreeNAS is an open source storage platform based on FreeBSD that supports file sharing across Windows, Apple, and Unix/Linux systems. Clonezilla is an open source clone utility for doing bare-metal backup and recovery for disks and disk partitions. In this post I will describe how to use Clonezilla to create image files of disks or […] Read More →