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date = "2014-03-27T05:03:20-07:00"
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title = "FreeBSD Challenge, Day 12-15"
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slug = "freebsd-challenge-day-12-15"
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Half-way point.
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Much progress made in the world of a bootable USB stick to get my
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new-fangled WiFi chip working. I was able to make a new image, wrote it
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to a new USB stick, booted it, and was able to successfully scan for my
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Access Points! W00t!
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Tomorrow, I will take the second laptop (HP EliteBook Revolve 810), and
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load it with 10-Release (slightly patched). I do not expect everything
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to work (it has a touch screen), but enough should work that I can start
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using it for the daily driver. Having real wifi will help a lot.
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My updates have been a bit slow due to craziness at work. I am taking a
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trip, and the departure date has been reset many times. I am on my 5th
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set of airline tickets. With things settled, I need to decide if I am
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going to bring the second laptop (the R180) with me or not. Weight
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issues and all.
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How do I think this is going? Well, the two major issues I thought I
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would have going in, WiFi and Photo editing/management, are for the most
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part solved. Can I use this for my daily non-work driver? Yes. Can I use
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it for my work daily driver? Maybe. I have set up a few jails on the
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FreeNAS box (btsync, dns/dhcp, [taskwarrior\'s
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taskd](http://taskwarrior.org/docs/server_setup.html), and Plex), and
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they are mainly working well together (the Plex will not play nice with
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btsync, yet), but I need to figure out a bit more, and set it up as a
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target to backup my laptop\'s ZFS snapshots.
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Next steps are to find those performance monitoring tools/docs, and to
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look at something like puppet/chef/salt.
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Thanks for reading\....
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