I shot some pictures of the annual gay pride parade in Copenhagen. As always, I try to focus more on the individual contributions to show the true diversity, expression and courage, that makes up such a huge event as the gay pride parade.
Continue reading “Pictures from Copenhagen Pride Parade 2023.”Author: Micski
Micski lives in Copenhagen, which is the capitol city of Denmark, where he's a system administrator of information technology and a semi-professional poker player.
Review of Havit KB496L RGB backlit mechanical keyboard for FreeBSD desktop computers and Android smartphones.
Continue reading “Havit KB496L mechanical keyboard for FreeBSD.”I snugged a camera into my bag and went for a peaceful walk in the evening sun and calm sea at the beach Amager Strand.
Continue reading “Evening at Amager Strand.”In this example, a FreeBSD bootable USB memory stick will be prepared, so it can be used to boot a computer and install FreeBSD on it.
Download image from FreeBSD FTP mirror.
Download the bootable memory stick image from a local FreeBSD FTP mirror. In this example, the computer is based on 64 bit Intel architecture, so the amd64 architecture is the right one. This image can be written to a USB memory stick, also known as a flash drive or USB storage medium, and used to do an install FreeBSD on computers, that can boot from USB. This image also supports booting into a rescue mode. This image does not include pre-built packages.
FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/13.2/FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img
Write image to USB memory stick.
Insert the USB memory stick, that will be used to store the bootable FreeBSD image. Identify the assigned device name. This will be used for writing to it. In this example, the device name is da0.
# dmesg da0: <Kingston DataTraveler 1337 1.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
Write the bootable image to the USB memory stick.
# dd if=FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1m conv=sync 1222+0 records in 1222+0 records out 1281359872 bytes transferred in 133.713926 secs (7967966 bytes/sec)
The USB memory stick can now be pulled out and used to boot any computer, that can boot from USB.
Ratatype is a free, simple and online web based typing test and learning site. I recommed it for testing typing speed in words per minute (wpm) and accuracy in percent on different keyboards. Neat layout. No obstructing advertisements. Optional sign-up for structured learning plan.
Continue reading “Measure typing speed and accuracy with Ratatype.”FreeDOS is a free and open source operating system variant of the classic MSDOS from the 90’s, just like DRDOS and PCDOS from the time. FreeDOS can be used to run legacy business software and classic games for MSDOS. In this example, FreeDOS 1.3 is installed as a guest in VirtualBox 6.1 on a FreeBSD 13.2 desktop computer.
Continue reading “How to install FreeDOS on FreeBSD.”In this example, the VirtualBox kernel module 6.1.36_1 for VirtualBox 6.1.36_1 on FreeBSD 13.2 is installed from ports to a fix version mismatch.
Continue reading “How to fix version mismatch for FreeBSD VirtualBox kernel module.”An overview of two-factor authenticatation (2FA) and how it works.
Continue reading “How to protect online accounts with two-factor authentication (2FA).”Gravel bike tour #40 was a beautiful 25 km round-trip to this wonderful magic spot behind Charlottenlund Fort.
Continue reading “Gravel biking to Charlottenlund Fort.”An illustrated introduction to the Dragon variant of the Sicilian Defense chess opening with theory, positions and possible moves.
Continue reading “The Dragon variant of the Sicilian Defense chess opening.”How to show poker cards and playing cards in WordPress pages and posts by using Custom HTML block, CSS and JavaScript with SVG data for 52 playing cards and 1 back side.
Continue reading “How to show playing cards in WordPress.”This is the procedure, with examples in FreeBSD, for how to create a virtual host in Apache HTTP server, including, how to create a seperate system user account, create the document root directory, setting permissions and constructing the virtual host configuration in Apache.
Continue reading “Create a virtual host in Apache HTTP server.”Free and open source editor for editing PHP scripts, HTML documents and similar programming languages in Microsoft Windows.
Continue reading “Notepad++. Free and open source editor for Windows.”This is the procedure for how to install WordPress from the command line on a FreeBSD or similar UNIX- or Linux based web server.
Continue reading “How to install WordPress from the command line on FreeBSD.”This is a test of positions and games in RPB Chessboard plugin for WordPress.
Continue reading “Test of RPB Chessboard plugin for WordPress.”Open dconf-editor and go to org, gnome, control-center and last-panel. Set the value to default. This worked for me. Thanks to bpurgar for the solution in FreeBSD Bugs. See more at Bug 259007.
Configure FileZilla to access and use an SFTP server in order to upload and download files. Tested with FileZilla 3.3.1 on FreeBSD 13.1 on 2022-11-04.
Continue reading “How to use FileZilla to access an SFTP server.”Compiled service manual with engine, fuel, air, exhaust and cooling sections for 220 and 330 cu. in. Bedford industrial diesel engines by General Motors in 1975. 182 pages in PDF file format.
Continue reading “Service manual for 220 and 330 cu. in. Bedford industrial diesel engines by General Motors.”I few pictures from my wonderful gravel bike trip through the deep forest of Store Hareskov in Denmark.
Continue reading “Gravel biking in Store Hareskov.”Thanks for all the lovely birthday greeting from each and everyone of you! This special day, blessed with blue sky sun, has been celebrated with family.
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