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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../assets/xml/rss.xsl" media="all"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>duckland.org news (30DayChallenge)</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/</link><description></description><atom:link href="http://www.duckland.org/categories/30daychallenge.xml" type="application/rss+xml" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2015 05:13:30 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>http://getnikola.com/</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge II, End Report</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/30daychallengefreebsdsa.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><p>And, again, I hit something which is causing massive disk performance issues. That, and suspend/resume does not work on either laptop.</p>
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<p>I would try to debug the issues, but that means learning a whole new set of tools, and I will not have time for a while. Next week, I am in week long meetings which will run late every day, and then I have to finish writing and present a training class the last week of the month. The hour or two I can spare will be far better spent for me by backup, re-installing <a class="reference external" href="http://www.archlinux.org">ArchLinux</a> than by starting to learn the tools. Yes, a bit of a cop-out, but I need the machines to do what I need to do. I will keep the servers FreeBSD, however, as it works great there.</p>
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<p>I will revisit the issue of FreeBSD on the laptops when I either get new kit, or support for my models gets better.</p></div></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>linux</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/30daychallengefreebsdsa.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:43:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge II, Day 30 Update</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-30-update.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><p>As the month draws to a close, I am further into the switch. I have rebuilt my main laptop to <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org">PCBSD</a>. I am still setting a few things up, but it seems to be going well.</p>
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<p>Two things I need to fix:</p>
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<li><strong>Skype</strong>: While there is not a native client, there are lots of folks who report success with the Linux client. I will need to do some research.</li>
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<li><strong>Nikola</strong>: The software I use for my blogs. It throws a python error when I run it, so I cannot update things. Again, I think I just need to do some more research.</li>
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<p>Now, the fun of the weekend is here, so I am off!</p></div></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-30-update.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2015 21:38:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge II, Day 14</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-14.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><p>Today is day 14 (pushing day 15 at this hour), and things are looking very good. Today, I got word from the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org">PCBSD Project</a> that a patch which I submitted to fix the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.duckland.org/posts/201407freebsd-switch.html">issue with the WiFi NIC</a>. Well, I got notice today that <a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/7330">PCBSD Bug #7330</a> has been resolved, and I tested on the R810. It works!</p>
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<p>Now, I just need to get a few things configured here first, like snapshots, backups, and porting my SDCARD reading scripts over to FreeBSD, and I should be good.</p>
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<p>Then, fun things like configure &amp; use IPv6. I have two FreeBSD VSP servers to test with...it will be fun!</p></div></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-14.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 05:51:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Update on revisiting FreeBSD Challenge</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/update-on-revisiting-freebsd-challenge.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><p>It is the 10th day of the month, and I am 10 days in trying to use FreeBSD as my daily non-work driver. How is it going?</p>
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<p>Well, for the most part, well. I can spend most of my personal work-flow on the FreeBSD laptop with no issues. There are a couple of things I have not moved over yet, and those relate to my photo work-flow. The main application, <a class="reference external" href="http://aftershotpro.com">AfterShotPro</a> is installed and working (see <a class="reference external" href="http://www.duckland.org/posts/201403freebsd-challenge-day-4-6.html">my previous desciption</a> of installing in), however, I have not moved over the scripts I use in the flow. I believe they will just come over, but I have not had a chance to test them.</p>
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<p>I was using <a class="reference external" href="http://chromium.org">Chromium</a>, but any Flash site did not work. I need to revisit this at some point, but for now I went back to Firefox, and it is working create.</p>
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<p>The only major thing right now I need to figure out is how FreeBSD deals with sound. I can hear things from the speakers just fine, but I need to figure out how to enable and use an USB headset. Not the biggest, but still. I also need to either install &amp; configure Skype, or find a replacement video chat to use with the wife while traveling that works under FreeBSD. I like the second option better, but I have not really had the time to do the research.</p>
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<p>And, the new site generating suite I am using works under FreeBSD. I wrote and posted this from the FreeBSD laptop.</p>
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<p>More updates soon.</p></div></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/update-on-revisiting-freebsd-challenge.html</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2015 04:35:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Goodbye 2014!</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/goodbye-2014.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><p>As 2014 draws to a close, I look back at the year.</p>
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<p>Overall, it was a good year. The family staid reasonably health (just a case of the flu which every one of us caught).</p>
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<p>Work slowed down a bit after only three trips, and the last one was in June, but I did get to spend two weeks in London which was cool. While the work has been not what I really want to be doing, it has been interesting, and next year promises to be very interesting. I have no clue if travel is in the cards or not, but I will keep the camera handy.</p>
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<p>In the coming year, I plan to focus on health, photography, and technology. I want to get back to taking photos every day, and to bring the quality back up to art level over the snapshots and historical documentation that I have been doing.</p>
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<p>Also, I want to revisit the 30 Day FreeBSD challenge again in January. I have the old HP R810 running <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org">PCBSD 10.1</a> already set up that I have been using for a couple of days working the kinks out of it, so I think I can do it this time. Normal caveat applies...I have a work laptop which dual boots Windows 8.1 and Fedora 21 for my work stuff. The home stuff should work nicely on the laptop.</p>
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<p>Just to prove things, this post was written under FreeBSD.</p>
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<p>I also need to fix up my virtual host farm. I have one too many, and do not need it, but of course, it is the one with the main mail and other services, so I need to hurry up and migrate things off of it.</p>
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<p>I hope your 2015 is a great year.</p></div></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>personeal</category><category>photo</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/goodbye-2014.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:44:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Switch</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201407freebsd-switch.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><p>I just noticed I have not updated this in a few weeks. Sorry about that.</p>
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<p>I have my R810 running PCBSD 10.0.2, and I just patched and configured WiFi on it. I need to figure out how to submit a patch to see if I can get the Centrino supported in the main-line kernel so I do not have to compile a custom kernel just for that.</p>
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<p>I almost have this working where I can switch to it full time. I need to deal with getting my <strong>killer</strong> apps installed and working. I had most (all?) of them working before, so I know I can do it again.</p>
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<p>Currently, FireFox is not working for me for some reason, but Chromium is, so I will use that for now.</p>
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<p>I have started a wiki to keep some notes for myself on this (what SA has not done that?), so I hope this process will be easier this time.</p>
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<p>peace.</p></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201407freebsd-switch.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:07:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Back to FreeBSD (maybe back to the challenge)</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201406back-to-freebsd-maybe-back-to-the-challenge.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><p>So, I had a bit of time over the weekend, and spent it doing a bit of hacking around.</p>
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<p>I had re-installed <a href="http://www.pcbsd.org">PC-BSD</a> on my HP EliteBook R810. I used 10.0.2, and everything but the wireless looked good. I decided to try to get the wireless working with the internal WNIC. <a href="http://www.duckland.org/2014/04/freebsd-challenge,-day-17">Previously</a>, I used an external dongle to get WiFi working, but it was a pain to remember to pull it out, so I decided to try again.</p>
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<p>I updated the base OS to 10-CURRENT, and then 'patched' the source tree using the info I found <a href="https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=35467">in this forum post</a>. Once I rebooted, and used the PC-BSD tools to enable the device, things worked! Since this was only last night, I need to test it a bit to make sure it stands up to load.</p>
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<p>There is a <a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169433">PR</a>, and support <strong>has</strong> been added to HEAD. I am going try to write a patch to get this added before then. I will need to see if I can figure out how to do that. :)</p>
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<p>Since my work laptop uses the same WNIC, I am one step closer to being able to install it on the work machine.</p>
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<p>I am going to see about trying to use <strong><em>dragon</em></strong> as my non-work daily driver and shake out what I need to do, so I may be restarting the <a href="http://www.duckland.org/tag/30DayChallenge">30 Day Challenge</a> again, but a lot of that depends on how work goes.</p></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201406back-to-freebsd-maybe-back-to-the-challenge.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 20:06:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge final (for now)</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201404freebsd-challenge-final-for-now.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><p>Well,
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Something broke on the main computer. The speed when trying to run
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a few terminal apps, firefox, and thunderbird at the same time was
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appalling. I never had that sort of performance issues under
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ArchLinix on the same kit. I would love to take the time to debug it,
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but I am almost four weeks behind in dealing with my photos, including
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those from my trip to England, and I am getting ready to do run some
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training courses for work which will suck up all my free time.</p>
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<p>I am re-installing Arch on the two laptops. I should have restored
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working configs in a day or two, and then I can start working on my
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backlog of photo and other projects.</p>
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<p>Also, since my laptops are not supported under 10-RELEASE, I want to
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wait until 10.1 to see if my WLAN NICs are supported.</p>
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<p>I still need to rebuild my server which has a failing drive (backed up
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the data already, just need time). I may go ahead and put 10-RELEASE
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on it since the NICs are fully supported.</p>
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<p>d</p></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201404freebsd-challenge-final-for-now.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 03:04:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge, Day 17</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201404freebsd-challenge-day-17.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><p>Today, I got my new laptop <strong><em>dragon</em></strong> up on wireless with a little <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003MTTJOY/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;smid=A2N1S6D8VVCNZ3">Edimax EW-7811Un 150 Mbps Wireless 11n Nano Size USB Adapter</a>. Now, setup begins in ernest. I have disabled the on-board wireless NIC in the BIOS, and started to set up shop on it.</p>
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<p>Next major task. Configure X. :)</p>
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<p>d</p></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201404freebsd-challenge-day-17.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:04:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge, Update</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201404freebsd-challenge-update.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><p>Hey,
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Sorry about the lack of updates over the last two weeks, but my job sent me out of country for two weeks, and I had no time to work on this project. Once I unbury myself, I will return to this with a vengence. I am planning on <em>upgrading</em> my two servers to FreeBSD10 from Linux. One will involve a major disk reworking as one of the disks is about dead.</p>
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<p>Stay tuned, and thanks for coming back!</p>
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