This page describes the roles, fundamental principles and daily tasks of a system administrator. What good practice of system and network administration means.
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This is the procedure for setting up ImageMagick to take screenshots in GNOME on FreeBSD. The filename will be named in the ISO 8601 format.
Continue reading “How to take screenshots with ImageMagick in GNOME on FreeBSD.”This is guide for setting up headset and audio for a Jitsi Meet video meeting in FreeBSD and GNOME. This guide also answers, why Jitsi Meet is better than Zoom and Teams.
Continue reading “How to participate in a Jitsi Meet video meeting with FreeBSD and GNOME.”This is the procedure for applying a great-looking, readable and legally correct copyright notice on a batch of pictures with ImageMagick and its composite operator of convert.
Continue reading “How to add a transparent copyright notice to a batch of pictures with ImageMagick.”This is the procedure for creating a simple mail list on FreeBSD with Sendmail, that is installed by default. The purpose of a mail list is to create an email address or mail list alias, that distributes the message to each member of a list.
Continue reading “How to create a simple mail list on FreeBSD.”This is the procedure for installing and running the Spotify desktop client in GNOME on the FreeBSD operating system by using FreeBSD’s built-in Linux Binary Compatibility. This procedure has been tested on Spotify (2021) through 1:1.1.84 (2022) on FreeBSD 13.0.
Continue reading “How to install Spotify on FreeBSD.”This is the procedure for mounting a FAT32 formatted SD memory card on FreeBSD. FAT32, or 32 bit FAT, is often used by digital cameras, camcorders, action cameras and video surveillance cameras. Examples are Canon EOS digital cameras and GoPro action cameras.
Continue reading “How to mount FAT32 formatted SD memory card on FreeBSD.”If you just upgraded to FreeBSD 12 or 13, then you might experience, that the font in the virtual terminal system console has become too small.
Continue reading “Fix small font in FreeBSD virtual terminal system console.”If you upgraded to FreeBSD 12 or 13, you might experience, that the boot menu has a broken layout with special characters and the console resolution is incorrect. Fix it with the new UEFI kernel loader.
Continue reading “Fix broken boot menu and console resolution in FreeBSD 13.0.”Procedure for creating a custom launcher icon, that runs your script or application, in GNOME on FreeBSD.
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