Ruminations on the Digital Realm

I was getting annoyed by the long string of error messages pointing to second or third digit dependencies that weren’t met. For a freshly installed PC-BSD system I expected it to be a bit more up to date. One could argue – as is done in the PC-BSD forums- that this version of *BSD is [...]

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It’s that time of the month again. My employer is so kind to send the monthly reward for my hard work and I am so kind to send most of it to the ones that want a part of that money. It’s that brief albeit virtual moment that you actually feel you own something. This [...]

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Today I started with a final attempt to install PC-BSD on a physical hard drive. This disk I know is good and has been working up to this day without so much as a hickup. Sadly, again I was confronted with error messages and no PC-BSD install. Not a good start and a major disappointment [...]

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It finally arrived. Today I got a box with the first five copies of my new book entitled “Probleemloos overstappen op Linux”, translated “Switching to Linux without problems”. The book aims to help W2L migrators and guides them through the various steps of securing crucial data from the Windows installation to installing Ubuntu Linux [...]

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Up to now I have been using PC-BSD on a virtual box. That’s not really a problem provided you have enough RAM for both the host and the guest operating systems. On a side note:the FreeBSD handbook made it clear that it is possible to use FreeBSD as a guest OS, but not yet as [...]

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