Desktop BSD
After distrohopping almost every possible system, finally OpenBSD landed on my laptop as my main operating system around a year ago. If you are interested in the reasoning, head over the why-OpenBSD.rocks site to learn more about the system. Below you can find various pieces of the config files i am using. CWM OpenBSD base install (if you install Xenocara) provides fvwm and cwm as...
Homemade NAS
Back then when i bought my flat i tought a lot about the computer infrastructure i wish to build there. I had extravagant plans and expectations which i later dropped or rationalized. At the end it turned out better than expected, if you are interested, lets check the results together. Uplink To be able to work from home i need a moderately fast internet connection,...
OpenStick
I have bought a VoCore2 some month ago and it gave me endless fun and headache. It is a coin sized computer meant for embedded use and for experimenting. It comes with OpenWRT, a linux distribution mainly meant for routers. While i had fun with the VoCore, the naked PCB feels way too vulnerable for my liking. I really wished to have some compact computer...
Emulating IRIX on a PC
Once my ex-boss told me, as they started the company back in the ’90s they had to buy a computer, so they took a big bunch of credit and bought an SGI workstation. For that price you could buy a new car back then. As i started my career in 2009 the car industry almost finished the long process of adopting standard Wintel PC-s. I...
Haiku volume shortcuts
AFAIK almost all portable computers (eg. laptops) have volume and brightness control shortcuts, you can find the self-explaining symbols on your keyboard, mostly you have to use them with the Fn key together. The signals will be sent to the EC which will notify some methods in the ACPI tables. The problem is: the most OEM ACPI implementations are utterly garbage. It could be useful...