Month: June 2014

iMac Fan Control Work-Around

I was recently repairing a 24″ iMac (EMC 2211, Model A1225); to get the computer up and running again I needed to replace the hard drive. This model iMac has a sensor that attaches to the hard drive to report temperature metrics for fan control. The replacement hard drive did not accommodate this sensor so […]

Installing an OS in VirtualBox on a Headless FreeBSD Server

Using Virtualization one is able to run a full computer operating system inside of an existing operating system. I’ve been using VirtualBox for years to virtualize many kinds of operating systems for many different reasons on my desktop computers. I first started using VirtualBox to run a Windows installation so I could do things I […]