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.. title: Random Mid-Summer Updates
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.. date: 2016-07-31 21:33:17 UTC-05:00
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.. tags: sa,personal,FreeBSD
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Wow...summer is almost over. Three more weeks until school starts again.
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Need to spend more time putting pictures up from some of the trips we have done. I think there is time to squeeze another visit to the beach before school starts up, but we will see.
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One of the projects I have been working on is taking over web hosting for an organization I volunteer with. The old hosting was with a former member at his hosting company, but he is retiring as of the end of July, so I stepped up to host it. Some of the code used has not been updated in a while, and one of my first projects on it will be to wrap it into a more modern frame-work so other people can help maintain the site.
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In other random news (hence the title), [FreeBSD](http://www.freebsd.org) has released on schedule **FreeBSD 11.0B3**. I heard in passing on [BSDNow](http://www.bsdnow.tv) that this release might work on the Thinkpad x260. If you remember from [my last post](link://slug/home_network_updates), that I was in the market for a repalcement machine. Well, I found a really good deal on an new-in-the-box x260, and picked it up for around 1/4 the retail. The only thing it is currently missing is a back-light on the keyboard, but I am okay with it for now. Battery life under Linux has been awesome without any tuning. I can easly get 10+ hours in my testing, and I have not run the batteries dead yet. The only two issues with FreeBSD on the x260 that I know about is the lack of suspend/resume (general issue with Skylake), and the fact the Intel 8260 wireless card is not yet supported, but it seems like someone is working on that!
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At some point in the near future, I will have to rethink the mail situation. Do I really need to roll my own, or can I use a third party?
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Time to call it a night. Catch you next month!
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