Upgrading all ports via portupgrade.
portupgradeis a tool that allows you to upgrade ports on your FreeBSD system. It has its faults, and it doesn’t always work (see below), but its about as close as
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Reading OS X plist files (Command line)
OS X uses plist files to store configuration information – you can think of them as OS X’s version of the windows registry. There are a number of tools to
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Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP in OS X Maverick
With the new OS (Maverick 10.9), getting the AMP stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP) runnig is pretty much the same as it was in OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. This tutorial
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Installing wget in OS X (Maverick)
Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks comes with the command line utility called ‘curl‘ which is a network transfer tool, it does not come with the popular ‘wget‘, in fact ‘curl‘
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Installing Pear on OS X (Maverick)
PEAR is a poplular PHP package manager, it doesn’t come by default on OSX, how to install PEAR on OSX 10.9 Mavericks and earlier versions of OSX.
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Apache/PHP on OS X 10.9
I have a MAC Book pro and wanted to setup a web development environment. This requires Apache, PHP, and MySQL. Doing a quick search on the net revealed a few
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DHCP and resolv.conf
DHCP on FreeBSD updates your DNS information in /etc/resolv.conf. This works great for workstation and other systems that only have one interface but what about systems that are connected to
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ALSA sound device sharing
While I was working on a new project (an Internet Radio and Airplay server) with my Raspberry Pi I ran into an interesting sound issue. My original development on the
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BlueTooth Wireless Keyboard on a Pi
While working on one of my projects with the Raspberry Pu I soon came to relize that I would need some kind of wireless keyboard. I dug up a bluetooth
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Enabling an LCD Display.
I recently purchased an LCD display for my Raspberry Pi and decided to get it working with RasPlex. The display is a 16×2 HD44780 based LCD screen that I purchased
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