Enable VMware Shared Folders in a FreeBSD Guest Virtual Machine
Share any folder from your host computer on to your FreeBSD guest using the shared folders feature.
Setup a Three Node Replicated GlusterFS Cluster on FreeBSD
GlusterFS (GFS) is the open source equivalent to Microsoft's Distributed Filesystem (DFS). It's a service that replicates the contents of a filesystem in real time from one server to another. Clients connect to any server and changes made to a file will replicate automatically. It's similar to something like rsync or syncthing, but much more automatic and transparent. A FreeBSD port has been available since v3.4, and (as of this post) is currently at version 8.0 with 9.0 being released soon.
This is a technology demonstration and tutorial for deploying GlusterFS on FreeBSD. As a bonus this is an opportunity to play with Bhyve.
VMware Tools, Smooth Mouse, Clipboard Sharing, Auto-Resize on Xorg and FreeBSD
This is a script for a FreeBSD X11 desktop running as a VMWare Virtual Machine Guest. It will enable smooth mouse, clipboard sharing, and auto-resize. Essentially it installs the emulators/open-vm-tools binary package and performs some configuration. If you prefer to have a fully configured desktop environment check out the Installation script for a FreeBSD based MATE desktop.
How to Use Xdebug for PHP with Netbeans on FreeBSD
Netbeans itself ships with PHP Xdebug support enabled by default. To get the two working together correctly there are additional steps required. The following is a clear set of instructions on how configure Xdebug, Netbeans, and PHP on FreeBSD using best practices.
Extend the Usability of Your Dell PowerEdge 1850 - Part 1
My first 'real' server was a Dell PowerEdge 1850 that I got sometime in 2005. At the time it was a powerful machine with dual Intel Xeon CPU's each at 3 GHz, dual power supplies for redundancy, and U320 SCSI hostswap drives on a PERC 4e/Si. Years later I would later upgrade the RAM and storage to it's maximum capacity, but that can only take you so far.
Network Speed Test on FreeBSD
With just a few command (2 actually). You can benchmark the network transfer speed between two FreeBSD hosts using nothing but the base system (no additional tools/ports need to be installed).
Jitsi Meet on FreeBSD with Apache
The ports needed to deploy a Jitsi Meet service using a FreeBSD platform is now available to install from the ports tree.
Make any Printer a Network Printer Using FreeBSD, a Raspberry Pi, and p910nd
Using a program called p910nd you can take any non-network printer and turn it into a network printer over Ethernet or Wifi.
Install Meteor on FreeBSD
Follow the directions on this page to get the latest stable (released) version of Meteor running on FreeBSD. As of this writing, that's version 1.4.1.1 utilizing NodeJS 4, MongoDB 3.2, and NPM 3.9
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