Apple Mac Pro (Mid 2012) to Mac Pro (2019) Upgrade & Migration Guide - Old Cheese Grater to newer Cheese Grater Process to upgrade incompatible Mac Pro (Mid 2012) machine to Mac Pro (2019) machine using Virtual Machine intermediary.
ubuntu Ubuntu Linux Crashed ... Understanding the Linux boot process, layers and typical scenarios is helpful in recovery from crash.
Bourne Shell Scripting Notes - Stop bashing your head on a wall Note on shell script "gotchas" that keep coming up. In particular how to manipulate arguments using shell arrays or eval.
irix Bootstrap GNU Tools on SGI IRIX Notes on trying to bootstrap GNU build tools on a very old SGI IRIX environment.
apple watch Parents Guide to Apple Watch Apple Watch provides a way for children to contact their parents, but setting them up is more complicated than Apple would have you believe. Hence parents guide.
commento Migrating Commento comments to native Ghost comments How to migrate comments from Commento (or other comments platform) to native Ghost member comments.
Ghost Trio - a Casper Derived Ghost Theme Notes on creating multi-volume "trio", a Casper derived, Ghost Theme
cisco ios Cisco IOS 15.5 (ISR 2901) to IOS XE 16.6 / 16.9 (ISR 4331) Migration Notes on migrating IOS configuration from ISR 2901 (IOS 15.5) to ISR 4331 (IOS XE 16.6 / 16.9)
api ONVIF Web Services Client Consumption with Java A beginners guide to using (consuming) HTTP/HTTPS exposed APIs, including Web Services defined by WSDL, Restful HTTP APIs and others. Consumption is via Java and JavaScript for ONVIF defined Services
thrift Apache Thrift with JavaScript Some extra tips and documentation on using Apache Thrift with JavaScript, as the Thrift documentation is pretty scant.
pfsense pfSense - Built In Protection and Upgrades pfSense installation has built in mechanism to support replicating prior configuration across upgrades.
freebsd The Elusive BSD Desktop on QEMU / KVM FreeBSD Desktop on QEMU / KVM still requires additional configuration, but GhostBSD is getting close to providing an "out of box" installation, that works
eclipse QEMU Guest - Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop / Gnome / Eclipse Broken There is a serious performance issue with Ubuntu 22.04 Dektop and the Eclipse snap, when running as QEMU quest. Problem has been reported in Ubuntu LaunchPad.
sgi SGI Fuel Power Supply Repairs How to repair an SGI Fuel Sparkle PSU and what do you need to do to modify an PC Sparkle PSU to make it SGI compatible
juju Infrastructure Automation with: MAAS, Juju, lxd ... Notes on setup and configuration and issues with Canonical Juju, MAAS etc
cisco CISCO Configuration Professional (CPP) Revival How to get Cisco Configuration Processional (CCP) up and running as a Windows VM, now that XP and Flash are no longer available and officially "end-of-life" and CCP has also been announced as "end-of-life"
sgi What is inside that box? - SGI hinv Some hinv (hardware inventory) reports from my limited SGI collection
sgi Past Echos the Future (Part II) - O350 / Chimera Stuff... Notes on vintage SGI computers specific to Chimera Architecture machines including: Origin / Onyx 350 (O350), Onyx4, Tezro & Fuel
onyx 350 SGI Onyx 350 - Racking and Stacking Notes on 19" computer racking and stacking in general and SGI Onyx 350 InfiniteReality 4 specifically
ubuntu Ubuntu and Remote Gnome Desktop with x11vnc Tools and tips to setup x11vnc for remote Ubuntu desktop (includes all diagnosis tips and keyboard mapping fix)
freebsd Converting FreeBSD from bios / mbr to UEFI / GPT Converting an existing bios/mbr installation to UEFI/GPT is a mechanistic exercise, requiring a spare disk and some expertise in gpart disk management tool. My example is virtual but the same basic process would also work with a physical machine.
"big sur" MacOS Big Sur & RS-232 Serial Communications How can I use RS-232 communication with MacOS Big Sur?