Computers ⁽¹²⁸⁾

Brian Bilbrey November 18, 2012

Marcia's back (again) & Linux reloaded

Today, I relaxed a bit. Shopping in the morning, a bit of Top Gear UK during the day, and I picked Marcia up at BWI around 1500 EST. Happy dog is happy, and so am I. The holiday bird is in the fridge, I've got a tray of mac-n-cheese ready, and ... we'll see how the table ends up. Tonight, I blew out the FreeNAS installation, and installed Scientific Linux 6.3 x64 on the box still known as Serenity. I had a lot of trouble getting things working right, and there are issues with offsite backups that are much more…

Brian Bilbrey August 9, 2012

Update: Dortmunder

Anthony commented on one of the early pictures of Dortmunder, asking "How does your new computer behave?" Unremarkably is perhaps the best answer - in that there's nothing to remark on, it just keeps ticking on. It's currently acting as my home IMAPS server (dovecot), as well as an IRC (irssi) launching spot that stays connected in a screen session. Agog:~ bilbrey$ ssh dortmunderLast login: Thu Aug 9 17:40:36 2012 from 192.168.1.100[bilbrey@dortmunder ~]$ w 17:41:11 up 25 days, 20:38, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.04, 0.05USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHATbilbrey pts/3 17:41 0.00s 0.15s 0.04s w...[root@dortmunder pacman.d]# pacman…

Brian Bilbrey August 1, 2012

Fuzzy? Mac Air MiniDP/HDMI vs. Samsung Syncmaster P2770HD

What a lovely lead, eh? But I had a heck of a time finding my answer, and while I never did find precisely what I wanted via search engines, I did get enough of a hint that I finally figured it out. I have Agog, this Mac Air. It's got Thunderbolt/Mini Display Port output and I've got a MiniDP-to-HDMI adapter. I also have this 27" HDMI + DVI Samsung Syncmaster P2770HD display. Here's the problem: When I connected the Air to the Syncmaster at full resolution, the screen image was displayed with about "half an inch" missing at the top…

Brian Bilbrey July 22, 2012

SuperDuper! to the rescue!

Today, I changed the password on my Mac Air, Agog. I then cooked dinner, and watched a couple of episodes of Poirot. I came upstairs ... and I don't remember the password I set. It was a good one. I have backups a couple of different ways, but neither of them seemed to be immediately accessible to me. In order to recover from the Time Machine backups, I need WiFi configured *and* I need to mount the volume that has that sparse image on it. That path seemed blocked to me. But there's a better way! I make periodic backups…

Brian Bilbrey July 11, 2012

The Dortmunder

I've decided to name the newest Linux system in the house Dortmunder. It amuses me greatly to name this bitty Raspberry Pi system after a spaceship the size of a small city. This one, however, isn't captained by Andy Umberger, even though he is a friend of a friend. I've deployed Dortmunder in the "wiring closet", running headless and hopefully trouble-free for a long, long time. Dortmunder deployed