Warner's Random Hacking Blog

Let's say you have one of those fancy washing machines with sophisticated circuitry. Well, then if your machine is like mine, it sucks...

FreeBSD is moving from gcc to clang as its base compiler. This works really well for x86, and moderately well for arm. However, it doesn...

Consider the function foo: int foo() { if (error) return -1; else return 12; } and consider its use here: int n; ... if ((n = foo())...

As you may know, I still have a HR10-250 in service.  I run TivoWebPlus 2.1 on the box. It mostly works the way I want it, although at times...

Over the past 5 or 6 years, I've had my TiVo HR10-250 setup to extract videos off of it.  Please see my other posts on how I set that up...

I had to move the hard drive between two TiVos recently.  Since it was on DirecTV, I got the dreaded Error #51.  Since I couldn't recall...

Woot!  After working hard to get the SAM9260-EK rescued, I'm able to boot SAM9260-EK to multiuser. Here's the dmesg: Copyright (c...

Quite some time ago, I received a AT91SAM9260-EK board from Atmel.  I tried to turn it on at the time, and it looked dead.  I put it on the ...

Wish me luck. I just typed the following commands: git clone https://github.org/freebsd/freebsd-head.git cd freebsd-head git branch a...

Greetings again, Here's a slightly edited version of a post I made to the FreeBSD arm list, proposing a path forward to cleanup and uni...

Recently, I've been trying to catch up with some of the technical debt that the FreeBSD/arm port has accumulated.  Some of that technica...

I recently received a complementary copy of the book FreeBSD Device Drivers by Josheph Kong. I also had the pleasure of meeting Josheph Kon...

Just thought I'd mention that I've been using a 32GB CF card with no special formatting in the Canon Rebel Xt. It has been working ...

Sometimes you don't want to run login on the console or other terminal. The reasons for this vary. Some appliances want to boot to a s...

I've recently improved the ABI selection in FreeBSD/mips. Now it is all handled via MACHINE_ARCH or TARGET_ARCH. mipsel and mipseb are...

We've released the next beta snapshot of FreeNAS. You can read the release notes for all the details. Here's a highlight of the iss...

Just after the release of the first beta, a couple of serious problems came to life. As such, we've respun the release to fix these iss...

iXsystems is pleased to announced FreeNAS 8.0 Beta. FreeNAS 8.0 has undergone a complete rewrite. We've redesigned the GUI to be easier...

I've recently been given the task of moving some software from FreeBSD 4.x to FreeBSD 6.x on a consulting basis. This move was very sim...

After a few unforeseen delays, we have a new FreeNAS snapshot available over at source forge . As an experiment, we are distributing these ...