Author Archives: bryaneverly

So in my last post, I detailed what it took to get Arch Linux running on my brand spanking new Thinkpad X1 Carbon (4th Generation) and was getting ready to install OpenBSD on the same disk.  In the intervening time, … Continue reading →

So, if you read my recent post on setting up a virtual machine multi-boot image with OpenBSD and Linux, you’ll be familiar with the background for this post.  Today, I’m going to detail the exact steps I took to set … Continue reading →

In my last post, I talked about creating a multiboot Virtual Machine that had OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux on it.  In that post, I mentioned that my next step would be to actually set up a laptop on real hardware … Continue reading →

While I know everyone is probably waiting impatiently for my Fortran follow-up (I assure you all, I do have a working Fortran-based web application development framework – I just want to pretty it up a bit more <grin>), I thought … Continue reading →

In my previous post, I described getting re-acquainted with Fortran after 38 years and discovering that the language had really added some nice features over that time.  I also mentioned how my “curly brace bigotry” was starting to thaw out.  … Continue reading →

I’m familiar with the FORTRAN programming language.  Heck, the first formal programming class I ever took was in 1978 in FOTRAN-IV on punched cards (don’t laugh kids, I’ll tell you to get off of my lawn if you do). My … Continue reading →

My home office (where my network and servers live) is a warm, noisy place.  So much so that I really wasn’t enjoying being in the room.  Since I don’t have an air conditioned datacenter with a raised floor in my … Continue reading →

Have you ever had one of those days where nothing seems to go right?  Like the fictional character from the old “Pebbles & Bam Bam” cartoon “Bad Luck Schleprock” where a cloud follows you around and everything you touch turns … Continue reading →

I have a confession to make.  As a person who has had a passion for computers and programming since the late 70’s, I have spent a lot of time on some really fun, albeit old, platforms.  For example, I started … Continue reading →

Some of the recent work done by the core OpenBSD developers is really incredible.  Specifically, the work that has been done for EFI booting of more “modern” hardware has started to open up a whole new vista of machines that … Continue reading →