Friday, 12th March 2010.

Reporting OpenBSD dmesg

Posted on Thursday, 29th October 2009 by Balazs

Overview
In order to help OpenBSD developers understand what systems people are running OpenBSD on, it is recommended to send them the system information, as well as the hardware sensor information.
Steps

Log on to your OpenBSD box
At the prompt, run:
# (dmesg; sysctl hw.sensors) | mail -s “type of machine” dmesg@openbsd.org

References

tech at openbsd.org mailing list

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Mac OS X fash disk burning

Posted on Thursday, 29th October 2009 by Balazs

Overview
One of the neat aspects of OSX is that it has all the classic Unix tools available. Linux users know that dd is the command line tool to flash a CF card or a USB drive on Linux. Here is how to use dd on the Mac.
Steps

Open a command line tool (terminal or [...]

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