Be Inc. gave away BeOS 5 Personal Edition for free, installable as a single file that lived inside your existing Windows or Linux system. More than 100,000 people pre-registered before it even launched.
A complete walkthrough configuring the Linux audit daemon to watch specific files, commands, and syscalls — and actually query the resulting logs for something useful.
A complete walkthrough configuring Screen Time for app limits, content restrictions, and downtime scheduling — for a managed child account or for your own usage discipline.
A complete walkthrough hosting and joining a RetroArch netplay session, including the core-matching requirement that causes most first-time connection failures.
Nintendo sued Yuzu developer Tropic Haze in February 2024 alleging the Switch emulator existed to facilitate piracy at scale. Within days, Yuzu was gone — and its sister project Citra went down with it.
A complete walkthrough packaging and deploying an MSI installer to multiple computers automatically via Group Policy Software Installation — no third-party deployment tool required.
A complete walkthrough deploying Fluent Bit, Elasticsearch, and Kibana to collect and search logs from every pod in a cluster — one place to look instead of kubectl logs against dozens of pods individually.
A complete walkthrough installing DOSLFN, understanding what it can and can't do, and verifying long filenames actually work with your specific FreeDOS utilities.
A complete walkthrough configuring periodic(8), pkg-audit, and freebsd-update to catch known vulnerabilities and pending patches automatically, with results delivered by email.
The company behind BeOS — the operating system Haiku would later reimplement as open source — completed its IPO in July 1999, at the height of the dot-com boom, years before the open-source project this blog covers even began.