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Changing MAC Address on FreeBSD

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image from http://swain.webframe.org/tshirts/ To instantly change your Network interface card’s (NIC) MAC Address or Physical Address on a freeBSD system the command to use is: where rl0 is the NIC whose Physical address will be changed.  This will change back to its original Physical Address when the system reboots. To change the Physical Address of rl0 every time the system boots you need to open rc.conf (/etc/rc.conf) and add the following lines: Good luck! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend

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Monitoring CPU Temperature

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I am currently on a kind of pissed moment because my laptop’s fan isn’t working even after I disassembled and cleaned it.  I even poured a little of motor oil in it just to make it turn smoothly but it doesn’t work.  My laptop suddenly shuts down and makes me repeat on doing whatever progress I have started.  It shuts down because whenever the CPU is very busy it generates a lot of heat (~60-70 °C)and one of its fallback

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Acer 4736 Disassembly

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I just disassembled my 4 years old aspire 4736 and cleaned all the dust inside.  If you are planning to clean yours here is the download link on how you can disassemble and clean your acer aspire 4736. Below are some few shots when I disassembled my laptop.     Testing before putting all together The 4 years old dust inside the laptop   Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet

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