I’ve set up my Dockstar as a broadband router and home server running my very own FreeBSD distribution. It performs admirably running PF/ALTQ, nginx, ISC-DHCPd, miniupnpd, BIND, and NTPd.
My Dockstar
The Dockstar has one LAN port, so the WAN interface is USB. The obviously-homebrew wire is RX, TX, and ground for the serial console.
My configuration files are in a GitHub repo.
There’s an entirely new section of Cooltrainer all about running FreeBSD on Kirkwood plug computers.
I recently noticed, thanks to my broken link checker, that all my normal site pages were returning HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found even though they load just fine in the browsers I test. Some older browsers, however, will just see the 404 error, and crawlers like googlebot will fail to index that content.
LCDs! Had I waited one more year I could be a full decade behind the curve.
I bought two HP LP2475w 24″ 16:10 panels and an Ergotron arm to replace my aging 19″ CRTs. The difference is really impressive. My CRTs always got drifting, distorted pictures. They also weighed about 60kg combined and took up my entire desk.
My laptop’s lid became very floppy after a few years, and it seems to be a common problem with the entire Powerbook G3 family. Luckily, I found a pair of Pismo hinges for $15 shipped on eBay.
