Getting arduino-cli installed

I often like doing things from the cli, so arduino-cli as a supplement to arduino seemed a really good idea, but go apparently uses magic .. It's bothers me a bit, but that's the way things are in the modern world.

So installing it...

$ go get -u github …

Failing Drives

My very first harddrive, that is now long gone, was a 40MB 3.5" ATA drive, before it got known as PATA.

I've since had various types, PATA, SCSI, SATA and the occational SAS.

Right, disregarding that long history, I had a bunch of drives I need to …

Random Bhyve Notes

Ubuntu 18.04

I've found myself staring at a

grub>

With ubuntu not going anywhere..

If I did

set root=(hd0,gpt2)
set prefix=(hd0,gpt2)/boot/grub
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/vda2
initrd /initrd.img
boot

vda being because it's got virtio-bd, if it's using ahci …

Right, now what? :)

So I've heard about vxlan, lots of talk about it, kind of knew what it actually was never really found it .. tempting ..

But I figured I'd better try it and see. So I wanted to do something silly as the first thing.

First configured it between two …

first we change poudriere.conf

--- poudriere.conf.sample   2018-02-15 00:54:08.000000000 +0100
+++ poudriere.conf  2018-02-21 19:40:40.959762000 +0100
@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@
 # You need at least 7GB of free space in this pool to have a working
 # poudriere.
 #
-#ZPOOL=tank
+ZPOOL=zroot

 ### NO ZFS
 # To not …

Some notes on a bit of "simple" IPSec

First of all, IPSec has always struck me as something that's advanced and simple getting together and making something really hard to comprehend.

There's the absolute basic of it, move package X from A to B, securely. The concept is deceptively simple …