Category Archives: FreeBSD Tech

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FSF/GNU Petition against UEFI Secure Boot

Posted on 2012-12-30 by dgilbert

The folks over at GNU have a peti­tion up regard­ing UEFI Secure Boot.  Before those of you who don’t read my com­put­er tech­ni­cal arti­cles flip away: con­sid­er that this is very impor­tant and that I will try to min­i­mize the … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Intel S3420HGPRX Server Package Review

Posted on 2011-06-24 by dgilbert

The Intel S3420HGPRX moth­er­board and 1U rack mount prod­uct is one of the nicest, well thought out 1U designs that I have come across and it’s well priced at around $800 for the case (with 3 hotswap bays), non-redun­­dant PSU … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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BSDCan — A Cool Canadian Conference

Posted on 2011-05-14 by dgilbert

I’m blog­ging today rough­ly from where that pic­ture was tak­en. I’m at BSD­Can just wait­ing for a talk to be giv­en by Eric All­man on Send­mail. For those in my read­er­ship that don’t know, he wrote send­mail. That speaks to … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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