If you were at my talk at SouthEast Linuxfest or FOSSCON this year, and you’d like copies of the slides from my talk, here they are.

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I dont really think that I need to explain the purpose of this post since the title should be clear.  You can reach us by using the address feedback @ bsdnow.tv  Conversely you can ping me on twitter or freenode using the screen name ‘q5sys’.  We are trying to put together a master list of BUG’s so we can keep viewers updated on when and where meetings are being held, as well as be a way to…

Are you really running six GPU’s in your workstation?

I got an email the other day in reference to the following picture that I posted on twitter in the past.

      The direct answer is that no, I am not running 6 GPUs in my system, for several reasons.  First and foremost being that those Quadro NVS 420 cards are Dual GPU cards, so technically that picture shows 12 GPUs.  A more down to earth…

Is Puppylinux 4K ready?  The short answer is mostly, and here’s the proof.

  The most important step is to simple increase your font size up from its default or whatever you have it set at, to something that’s about 30% larger.  This should be good for most people, but you may need to set it a bit higher depending on your personal preferences.  This will also vary depending on the pixel pitch of…

I made these a few months ago but completely forgot to upload them.  Thankfully, I remembered that when I was making the FreeBSD wallpapers today with the new FreeBSD Foundation Logo, so I’m uploading them now.  As before, these are 4K resolution, you can downscale them to your desktop resolution easy enough.  These are PNG, if you would prefer JPG versions you can download them from the Imgur…

I’m not the most skilled at graphic design so these are rather simple, but I tend to like simple wallpapers.  After all, if I’m at my computer I should be using it and not just staring at the background.  These are all 4K wallpapers (3840×2160), so you will need to scale them down to your resolution.  I figured it made the most sense to just make them as big as anyone might need.  It always looks…

  Step 1: Don’t point it at anything other than the sky. Step 2: Under no circumstance attach a tele-converter to it. Step 3: In the event that you failed to follow Step 2, please revisit Step 1.

Disclaimer: If you are Law Enforcement (involved in a lawful investigation) and are trying to observe someone from far away but don’t need clear photographs, disregard what I’ve said.

  Instead of…

  I got this Rokinon lens off a friend who bought it and never used it and decided he wanted to free up the space on his shelf.  Since free happens to be my favorite price, I felt like as a good friend I should be willing to help him out.  Primarily I got it for the purposes of astrophotography, but was bored a week or so ago so I decided to go and put it through its paces during the day and see…

To be up front, I backed the Rufus Cuff on Indiegogo, and while I had my doubts I tentatively believed them regarding their original claimed ship date of late 2014. Now I understand things happen, I had delays in my own Kickstarter project, but I’m happy to say that while some rewards did ship late, all of them went did get set out by the 1 year mark. Rufus Cuff is now approaching the 2 year…

So let me be clear that when I say ‘Hands on’ I literally only mean ‘Hands on’.  I have not been able to play around with the board yet.  As for first impressions, it’s a bit bigger than I was expecting.  I’m not quite sure why, but I expected it to be only slightly larger than the Raspberry Pi.  If you’re thinking it’s in that size form factor, realize now that it’s not.  I’d venture that it’s…

I’m a fan of the movie Wall-E, and I’ve got my own Wall-E based project that I’ve got planned, but nothing as intense or as cool as this one.  It’s actually rather old, and I’m surprised that I hadn’t seen it before.  Oh, how I wish I had a CnC machine, and could fab stuff like this guy can.

Wall-E Computer Case Mod

Those that know me know that I do tend to like oddball hardware, so with being unable to get any sleep the other night I decided to browse AliExpress and see what I can find.

Spoiler Alert : Never browse AliExpress when you can’t sleep unless you want to be horrified.

Needless to say, I found some items for sale that… well… I cant really think of why they even exist as a product. It’s not that…

Back during the summer I had the pleasure of going to FOSSCON 2015 in Philadelpha, PA.  Some of you might remember that from my post where I talked about meeting Eric S. Raymond.  While I was at FOSSCON, I picked up two laptops from a company that was selling refurbed X86 laptops.  I managed to nab two X31 Thinkpads for $30, so I was quite pleased.  The units were previously owned by a community…

    About a month ago I was hanging out with two friends of mine who were helping me work on two ThinkPad’s I bought at FOSSCON 2015, and decided it’d be fun to dissect a crappy tablet that someone gave me.  All the pictures are posted on imgur and linked down below.  I’m working up a post on the ThinkPad work, but decided to post about this first.

This isnt a new tablet by any means.  As you…