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<article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201403back-to-freebsd-aka-day-1.html" class="u-url">Back to FreeBSD aka Day 1</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201403back-to-freebsd-aka-day-1.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2014-03-12T04:03:05-06:00" title="2014-03-12">2014-03-12</time></a></p>
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<p>So, a long time ago, I had a box which was running FreeBSD 4, running
on a Pentium. This housed my public server, website, and mail server.
After I while, I had to rebuild it, and went back to Linux.</p>
<p>14 years later, I have decided to get back into FreeBSD, now at
FreeBSD 10. I have it running headless on two boxes, and I have
decided to take the '30 Day Challenge'. You know, all the bloggers
tell you to try something for 30 days before you give up on it.</p>
<p>I am going to try to give FreeBSD a go as my daily driver for 30 (or
so) days. I cannot do this full time, as I so Linux support in my day
job, so I cannot change over the work laptop (yet). I have installed
<a href="http://www.pcbsd.org" title="PCBSD">PCBSD10</a> on one of my spare laptops. Why PCBSD and not pure
FreeBSD? Well, I do not know enough yet to get past UEFI boot and the
NVidia/Intel dual graphics, so I cheated. I imagine that I before
the end, I will either reload this laptop or start from scratch on my
current daily personal driver.</p>
<p>So, most of my cli tools came over very cleanly, with the exception of
abook. On Linux, I track the git repo, and the version in the
ports tree is a bit older, so I will need to either compile it from
git, or change my config to use the older version. But the rest,
mutt, tmux, newsbeauter, irssi, and such, all work out of the box.</p>
<p>In the X department, PCBSD has my current favorite window-manager, i3,
so that is all good. The only issue I hit is the version of firefox
in the PCBSD port tree is broken, and I am going to stay away from the
PBI as much as I can. I feel that PBI are too much like installing
something under windows, i.e. install the app, and all the libraries
it needs to run. In my option, a waste of space, and un-patched
libraries on my system. Thank you, I will pass. I ended up enabling
the normal FreeBSD ports tree to install it.</p>
<p>I have ported most of my custom scripts over. Most of the work is in
the fact that bash lives somewhere different (/usr/local/bin vs /bin).
There are a few commands either missing or I have not installed them
yet, and a couple of core commands have very different syntax.</p>
<p>I figure for most of what I do, this will be very easy to switch over,
but the main area I am unsure of at this point is in photo editing and
photo management. I use a commercial Linux package, and I will need
to figure out how to make it work under the Linux compatibility layer.</p>
<p>I do not promise daily updates, but I will try to keep a journal of my
progress.</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201403new-cms-again.html" class="u-url">New CMS (Again)</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201403new-cms-again.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2014-03-06T05:03:27-06:00" title="2014-03-06">2014-03-06</time></a></p>
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<p>Still not going with a database on the back-end, but this one has a cool real-time visualization editor.</p>
<p>It is called <a href="http://www.htmly.com/" title="HTMLy">HTMLy</a>. This should let me update this a bit more. But, I have said that before.</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201402travels.html" class="u-url">My Travel Map</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201402travels.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2014-02-23T17:02:00-06:00" title="2014-02-23">2014-02-23</time></a></p>
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<p>Found this site, and since I had someone ask, I thought I would share.</p>
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<a style="font-size: 14px; color: #FFBF42" href="http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-widgets"><strong>Create your own travel map</strong></a> - <a style="font-size: 14px; color: #FFBF42" href="http://www.travbuddy.com"><strong>TravBuddy</strong></a><br>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201401cli-added.html" class="u-url">cli add</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201401cli-added.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2014-01-25T17:01:00-06:00" title="2014-01-25">2014-01-25</time></a></p>
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<p>I have not updated <a href="http://cli.donharper.org">cli.donharper.org - forget the
GUI</a> in a very long time, and I did have
some nice tricks and tips there, so I decided to bring it over here.</p>
<p>It is all tagged with
<a href="http://www.duckland.org/tag/cli" title="cli">cli</a>
for easy searching, plus I added a whole mess of other tags.</p>
<p>Enjoy.</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201401tale-of-install-2.html" class="u-url">Tale of Installs, Part 2</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201401tale-of-install-2.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2014-01-08T17:01:00-06:00" title="2014-01-08">2014-01-08</time></a></p>
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<p>Well, as I <a href="http://www.duckland.org/archive/2013/11/Tale_of_Installs.html">mentioned</a>, I was trying to install OpenBSD. Well, my main workstation died, so I have to re-purposed the OpenBSD box as my workstation running <a href="http://www.archlinux.org">ArchLinux</a>. I am hunting for a suitable replacement.</p>
<p>Oh, and Happy New Year!</p>
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