Magic City VitaeLog

I have a round-about kinda way of getting the webcams working again... but what can I say, at least they work now.  This is until I can get the same software working under FreeBSD as it was working under Linux.  It is supposed to work, and other users say it works just fine... but not for me.

The Top ten stunts performed by Mr. Chan:

I've upgraded most of the machine.  I only have mail and a few odds and ends to finish up.  The upgrade was smooth, but for some ridiculously stupid reason, the FreeBSD 7.0 Release CD's wouldn't boot.  They'd get hung at a section :

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Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0

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I've been struggling with getting my webcams up and running again with FreeBSD 6.2, mostly because the ports are greatly broken with 6.2.  Most of the ports I attempt to install just fail during the compliation.  I suspect that it is because I have somehow managed to munge my ports tree with that of a 7.x beta tree...or something along those lines. 

 In any case, I'm going to reload SATAN with the newly released 7.0 FreeBSD system, and I might even throw X windows on there (ohhh..the horror... a graphical interface on a server).  Maybe.  Maybe.  Who knows...it might be fun for a change to run the it from a GUI than a CLI.

So... as I was getting ready to post this, I realized that the last many posts I've had have all been movies of thise or that...

I promise, sooner or later, I'll get some real content on here!