Dramashack!

The third annual LinuxFest NW was held at Bellingham Technical College again this year. Denise and I manned the FreeBSD / PC-BSD booths and had a great time demonstrating the new Galileo Edition of PC-BSD. I was surprised at the amount of BSD enthusiasts that came to LinuxFest NW. I wonder why so many shows are Linux-centric. LinuxWorld caught on and renamed their show to OpenSourceWorld; let’s hope to see more of that in the future!

Our booth was next to the folks behind Mer Linux, a linux distro for mobile devices based on Ubuntu. They also demonstrated Linux on the Wii for fun. Everyone came to our booth for the horns, but left with a DVD, a t-shirt, and some stickers as well. We passed out all of our horns, Galileo Edition DVDs, and even some Fibonacci Edition DVDs.

The first day of the show 778 people were in attendance, which means we will need far more DVDs and horns for LinuxFest next year… Read more…

This post may be considered trivial to most of you, but I thought I’d post it up here for the sake of documentation.

The production manager approached me this morning and asked if I could make a bootable ISO for a customer who needed to flash the BIOS of several servers.  I suggested they PXE boot, but because of the volume of servers they have with PXE booting disabled, human involvement would be unavoidable.

I have several bootable floppies for flashing BIOSes, but our customer had specific configuration requests, so I had to switch out the zipped ROM file located within the floppy image.  Simple enough, right?

Read more…