Buying a TV bracket
How hard do you think it’d be to put a TV on a wall? Actually it’s quite straightforward, once you get hold of the bracket…
Automating tarsnap backups
How to create a backup schedule for tarsnap, and how to test it without using up your allowance.
Machine backups using tarsnap
A look at backup options for my server and why I decided to go with tarsnap.
Extracting album art from iTunes
iTunes does a good job of fetching album artwork, but how can I extract them for using in SqueezeCenter?
Exhange 2007 OOF (Out Of Office) and Free/Busy Availability, fixed
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks on and off trying to figure out why the OOF (Out Of Office) and Free/Busy availability information were broken in our Outlook 2007 clients. It turned out to be the fault of a dodgy Exchange update.
FreeBSD filesystem snapshots
Being able to take snapshots of a filesystem is very handy for backups, but does it actually work on FreeBSD?
Eduroam on FreeBSD
How to get the Eduroam wireless network at the University of Kent to work on FreeBSD.
Current Cost Electricity Meter
A look at the Current Cost electricity meter and how to produce pretty graphs from it.
A new router (Soekris, Draytek and NanoBSD)
A look at how I replaced my ageing router and ADSL modem with a Soekris net5501 running FreeBSD.