In general, I install QEMU on my Macbook using MacPorts. However I recently had a need to get the tip of the QEMU development tree. Getting the QEMU source tree is trivial: git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git I needed an updated version of dtc: git submodule update –init dtc The build instructions from the README are: mkdir…
I’ve tried a couple different mp3 taggers to tag my mp3 library, however, most seem to have trouble with large mp3 libraries. So, after doing some reading about AcoustID and MusicBrainz I decided to quickly code up my own tagger, MusicBrainzTagger. MusicBrainzTagger is a command-line application which recurses a directory of mp3 files and tags…
There is a new build of FreeBSD 10.1 for Soekris here. The source tree revision is r276913.
I recently got interested in the technical details of how ARM OS’s work, so I decided to try my hand at writing a simple one. This blog post is not about the OS itself, but about setting up the development environment. In my case, I’m developing in a terminal session, on FreeBSD 10 on an…
I’ve recently become interested in how the i386 boot loader works. There is an excellent example of a boot loader here, and another here. Some simple protected-mode code which implements a kernel capable of writing a line of text, is here. FemtoOS, is the culmination of combining code from all those, and building a simple…
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A new FreeBSD Wandboard build is available here and the boot log is here. This build uses U-Boot 2014.07.
In this blog article, I described a way to use Netatalk3 to do Time Machine backups on FreeBSD. This approach worked well, but it had some problems: The Time Machine backups are in every user’s home dir. That’s messy and there is the potential that they’ll accidentally delete the backup. If I put the backups…
I usually work on a Macbook, and I use keyless ssh with a cron job to do nightly backups. It works very well. However, I decided to try backups with Time Machine, using my FreeBSD-10 server as the host. The first step is to install netatalk3, and nss_mdns pkg install netatalk3 pkg install nss_mdns avahi…