I’ve started using YADM, which has been entertaining. In theory, I really like the idea of managing my dotfiles in git. In practise, it’s more difficult than I figured. YADM is pretty simple software - it’s packaged for Debian and is a just a script - it’s available for FreeBSD through the mystical power of wget or curl. It’s packaged for a range of other distributions/OSes too, but they’re pretenders so I don’t care about them …

My notebook for this evening’s work states “This fucking computer is insanity”. I’ve clearly picked up the term from tj. I’ve spent a lot of time fucking about with this wifi nonsense. Here’s the compressed overview of how far I’ve got: I’m loading every module related to ipw and wlan under the sun in /boot/loader.conf: if_ipw_load="YES" legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 ipw_bss_load="YES" ipw_ibss_load="YES" wlan_scan_ap_load="YES" wlan_scan_sta_load="YES" wlan_wep_load="YES" wlan_ccmp_load="YES" wlan_tkip_load="YES" No idea what half that wlan stuff does, maybe I should read up some… …

Ugh, I’ve been meaning to blog for a while. Little projects to write up for future hibby. I’ve been so tired lately I’ve been forgetting, so I’ve tried to get into the habit of writing in my notepad what I’ve been doing at the close of play. It’s been quite productive - that’s where the last few blogs have come from and the RSGB convention writeups came from. 33C3 is nearly upon us and I’ve been horrifically disorganised for it. I felt I didn’t take advantage of last year’s conference enough, so I’m committing to do and see more this time round. My notepad and a pen are going to each talk I go to, and I shall take notes. I shall then write up my notes in a similar fashion to the RSGB convention notes. …

So I’ve been curious about running more FreeBSD for a while, it’s kind of an interesting OS. I’ve been dipping my toes in the water by managing to install it on my hackbook (HP Compaq TC1100) with the intention of taking it to 32C3 as my main device. FreeBSD has some lovely architecture features that I really enjoy - the base system is more or less an immutable image between installs, bar a few files… At least it is in my use case. No fancy kernels for me, etc. Any tweaks you do make to the base system you can easily be reminded of by comparing yourself to it. …