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Monthly Archives October 2006

New Biiikeeeeee!

Yes, after a 1986 Gilera 125 TG1, a 1984 Moto Guzzi v35 TT, I finally have a bike younger than me! Today I bought a 2004 BMW F650GS. Yellow. With ABS. 11k Km. I’m happy.

Posted on 31 October 2006 † Matteo § Misc ‡ Comments (3) °

Work is going on

Work is going on. The main issue before releasing FreeSBIE EW is the configuration of the user interface (fu**ed *.desktop files..). Wait until next weekend.

Posted on 30 October 2006 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (1) °

Got back into the saddle

So, I restored all my configuration, rebuilt the builder environment and eventually start the first FreeSBIE EW build. I also started an article about FreeSBIE 2.0 to document its design, configuration, and the correct procedure to build a LiveCD using it. It isn’t finished yet, but I see the light at the end of the [...]

Posted on 25 October 2006 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (0) °

Fucking black cat

Yesterday night I was riding my bike along the river, going to meet some friends, when suddendly a black cat crossed my road. “Who cares?” I thought. Anyway, when I come back home, I started working on FreeSBIE EW and…well, I removed my ~/freesbieall directory with all my configurations and my local patches. Shit. Fucking [...]

Posted on 23 October 2006 † Matteo § FreeBSD § Nerd ‡ Comments (2) °

What a night, tonight!

Great night tonight! Dinner with old and new friends after an studying afternoon. Checco’s 21th birthday with old friends as Mat, Monte, Jack  and Carlotta and new friends as Garde, Umbe, Cami and Vero. Yes, I’m a bit drunk…:D

Posted on 22 October 2006 † Matteo § Misc ‡ Comments (1) °

FreeSBIE HowTo

Before releasing FreeSBIE 2.0, I want to write an article about its features and how to use it. I hope this will not make me being late with the release, which is still scheduled for the middle of November. SMGL gurus stay tuned, I may ask you to review my article..

Posted on 20 October 2006 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (2) °

Uncomplete TODO List for FreeSBIE EW

Tweak the menu banner, changing LVC to EW. Write a loader.help section about cheatcodes. Update the mountdisks plugin to make it obey to cheatcodes Add some packages: OpenOffice.org, ImageMagick, Tor, Privoxy, .. Add a special freesbietor user whose configurations use Tor and Privoxy Check software configurations Configure fluxbox Create an md(4) with /var/db/pkg. This will [...]

Posted on 19 October 2006 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (1) °

Announce: FreeSBIE LVC is out!

All, after the success of FreeSBIE GMV, today I release a new ISO image: FreeSBIE LVC. This is the second of a series of four ISO images: GMV, LVC, EW, and CE, with CE being hopefully FreeSBIE 2.0. As said, LVC goes public today, while EW is planned for the end of October and CE [...]

Posted on 13 October 2006 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (9) °

Today is the day

Eh. I know what day it is. And you’re going to know too, this evening…

Posted on 13 October 2006 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (1) °

Make!

My machines are building: kaiser is building the FreeSBIE LVC ISO image: more than 3 hundreds ports to compile, plus world, kernel, cloning a huge FS tree, make a big uzip file, mkisofs; krapfengeist is just rebuilding world and kernel As a side note: FreeSBIE LVC will be ready on time (next Friday or Saturday)!

Posted on 10 October 2006 † Matteo § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (0) °