I have a MacBook Air running Mountain Lion (10.9). I also have a RaspberryPi that I want to use as a digital picture frame (along with a monitor - of course). My choice of digital picture frame software is - home brew pygame - running from the console on the RaspberryPi. On the RPi I get pygame with a rasbian image. On …

The radio in our Ford Mondeo reported a strange code: "RICP". This happened every time you tried to turn up the volume. In the manuals this is described to be a mode the radio can be in, if there is a read panel for controlling the radio. Only - there is no such panel in our Mondeo :-) So after searching a …

I want to access my files on the FreeBSD NAS via AFP and not SMB. SMB is too Windows-like ;-) First we nee Bonjour to multicast the DNS-name of the server. This is implemented by avahi. (Why does it nee to install so many X ports...?) 1# cd /usr/ports/net/avahi 2# make install clean Now start the daemons (remember to …

I have a FreeBSD server with a lot of out media on it. And I want to view this contents on my Apple TV. Plex and Plex Media Server (PMS) comes to mind. There is, however, not a port for FreeBSD of PMS. But fortunately there is good Linux support in `FreeBSD, so I was hoping to get support that way... Here is what I …

I had a weid experience. All of a sudden I wasn't able to login on my NAS with ssh. I use PKI (RSA) for login and have disabled pure password login. A `ssh -v revealed: 1debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey 23 times. First I thought that the keys didn't match - that was not it (I generated a new pair …

Instead of mounting shares manually every time at login, one can use autos. I have followed the guide here So in my case I created a file /etc/fstab and inserted a file for the home directory on my server (local ip: 192.168.1.40): 1192.168.1.40:/jesper /Users/jesper/tranquil/jesper url …

Every once in a while the ports software on the NAS needs to be "rebased" with the newest. I have made a script that I can run in a screen. It will update the ports tree and compile the new software: 1portsnap fetch extract update 2pkgdb -F 3portsdb -Fu 4portupgrade -ac

Does your Mac also complain when you mount a share via AFP (netatalk)? Something like this: 1Something wrong with the volume's CNID DB, using 2temporary CNID DB instead. Check server messages 3for details. Switching to read-only mode. I solved this by adding a little to the rc.conf: …

As I did a clean install and not an upgrade of my FreeBSD 8.2 to 9.0, I have to reconfigure everything from scratch :-) I have 4 Western Digital disks with data - all in RAID-Z. And because they are Western Digital, they have 4K sectors and don't work well with ZFS. So I also have encrypted them with geli - a standard …