I love bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches. Here is my homage to the wonderful dish-

We start off with butter-fried sunny-side-up eggs with cheese melted on. They are salted and peppered, of course- the eater should not have to work at their meal like a Corona.

The finished product. Behold, bacon. It thinks it can escape the sandwich, and perhaps it can. But what it cannot escape is my desire- it will be mine.

As described in a previous post, I've gone the road of OpenBSD on my old, but primary workstation. I have half a new rig sitting in the corner of the office, but I'm not done with this old beast (that this post is being composed on, actually) quite yet.

While I had hoped that FreeBSD via the PC-BSD slick-up would be the saving grace of features and stability, it was not. Not even close. When my coworker famously (in our office) complains that "Linux" will never be a true desktop competitor for the masses, I imagine he's reviewing a video of me trying to work with PC-BSD. It seems so simple and functional and "all-there",and yet it is not. I'll admit, the samba-client surfing, flash-based video fun was awesome, but not when it crashed. And it crashed and crashed. It would crash two times before it crashed two times.

 quick notes from a recent addition (IDE drive)

- fdisk -i sd0

- disklabel -E sd0

- add your partition size info and the "p m" and then "q"

- go back and disklabel -e sd0

- use the first line as the actual name of the device as given from the /dev directory (in this case, rsd0c)

- newfs rsd0c

- mkdir storage

- mount /dev/sd0c /storage

- nano /etc/fstab

- type in /dev/sd0c /storage ffs rw 1 1

And voila! I now have a /storage directory with a new hard drive attached to it.

I recently decided to dump my 7-year old installation of Windows XP (that's right, never reloaded or anything on the same box for seven straight years) in favor of PC-BSD. Why?

- I use OpenBSD heavily at work and at home.

- I can't afford Windows7.

- I don't need much (apps, games).

- I like to try new, neat stuff.

- I need flash for hulu, youtube, etc.

- Those guys at PC-BSD are hot-to-trot that they have the solution for me.

So I tried it out- not even on my main home system, but on another, lighter one. And it performed... okay. There were times of sluggishness on the display-side, but I quickly chalked that up to a 32-MB built-in video card on an old Intel-865 board with a single core and 2GB of pc3200 RAM. I explained it away, I thought.