Sharing media over the network using iTunes media sharing is easy, but it’s even better when you can set up FreeBSD as your backend media library server. We can achieve this by using mt-daapd and mDNSResponder.
Mar
22
Last year I bought a Mac Mini with the intention of using it as the front end for a media centre solution.
For my plan to work, I needed to share my media from the FreeBSD server to the Mac. Considering both of these operating systems are *nix based, I decided to go with the triied-and-tested NFS to do the sharing. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
29
Last night a friend (on right) of mine tipped me off about an excellent X server for Windows. I got fed up using the cygwin so decided to try it out. Xming is a cool name too!
Here is what you need to get:
- Root Access
- Xorg installed
- SSH Access to the FreeBSD machine from the Windows machine
- Putty on the Windows machine
- Download Xming to the Windows machine
Dec
13
As I work in a large corporation who have all their satellite offices (like my own) connect to the Internet through a central structure, I decided I didn’t want some IT nerd reading all my IM’s. SSH wasn’t good enough - I wanted a robust solution that didn’t take much tinkering and would support all the protocols I use (MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Gtalk, soon SIP).
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Dec
13
Installing Java can be a pain in the ass. You have to download the files manually for licensing purposes 
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Dec
12
RTIR is an incident response module for RT, so clearly we had to take a little peek at the goods. This is really meant for incident responmse / network operations teams.
RTIR is built on RT, but provides different functionality. Read here for more information regarding the usefulness of RT and RTIR.
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Dec
12
A friend of mine is installing RT for use in the company he works for. I thought I’d give it a spin to see what the fuss was about. Here’s what happened! Read the rest of this entry »
Oct
21
As a precursor to researching Apache replacements for work, I decided to look at lighttpd at home. I already have php5 installed (incluing fast-cgi support). Here is how I installed lighttpd in my setup. These steps were carried out as root. Read the rest of this entry »
Sep
19
At work, we currently have deployed apps that run on JBoss under Windows 2003. No big deal really, apart from other services on the Windows servers tend to kill the entire box now and again - quite a pain in the backside. So I’m trying to convince them to move to a more stable OS, that being FreeBSD.
I documented the whole thing (as you should), so here is my guide to installing and configuing JBoss4 on a fresh install of FreeBSD 
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Sep
11
Randi Harper has a new little guide to getting Flash working under FreeBSD. You should definitely check it out here. Flash is one of those things that is just a pain to get working sometimes so help like this is much appreciated.