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Troubleshooting Large, Stalling git/ssh Transfers
Why is git/ssh stalling? While working with the freebsd-ports repo on github in order to track and combine it with an internal remote repo, it was found to apparently stall during a git push to the...
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QEMU: Convert non-Sparse Image to qcow/qcow2 Sparse Image
Convert non-Sparse Image to qcow/qcow2 Sparse Image While this is not always ideal, I’ve found it handy to build qcow/qcow2 images (for use in OpenStack) by converting a vmdk on FreeBSD. Often times,...
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Starting A Daemon via daemon(8) in FreeBSD
Starting A Daemon via daemon(8) in FreeBSD Daemonizing an application that must persist across reboots while including native process management capability is easily accomplished by combining the...
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Verisign Announces vBSDcon 2015
Verisign has recently announced the dates for a second vBSDcon to occur September 11 – 13, 2015 in Reston, VA. vBSDcon is technical, BSD-based conference for users, developers, engineers, and...
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Integrating FreeBSD w/ FreeIPA/SSSD
Integrating FreeBSD w/ FreeIPA/SSSD One of my more recent projects was to integrate FreeBSD into a Kerberos-secured authentication and authorization system based on the FreeIPA architecture. This...
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Disk I/O Performance Under Filesystem Journaling on FreeBSD 10.3
Overview This post describes disk I/O performance capabilities of the HP DL360p G8 in terms of filesystem journaling mechanisms on FreeBSD 10.3. References...
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Internet Privacy: Who Do You Trust?
Who do you trust? The rollback of the not yet effective USA FCC regulations enacted during the Obama administration poses an interesting dilemma. With the regulations set to take effect in 2017,...
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Windows 10, VirtualBox 5.2.0 w/ FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT Guest
This post describes installation of a FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT guest in VirtualBox 5.2.0 on Windows 10. The hardware is a HP Spectre x360 Convertible Touch 15″ laptop. Guests must be 64-bit and support...
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The Known Costs of Security Embargoes
The Known Costs of Security Embargoes A security embargo is an agreement between parties, typically a vendor and interested parties. The interested parties are generally individual(s) or...
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FreeBSD Bootonly ISO failures PXE booting under UEFI
FreeBSD Bootonly ISO failures PXE booting under UEFI The image below illustrates an error observed on some hardware platforms that fail to PXE boot FreeBSD’s bootonly ISO under UEFI. The failure...
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