FreeBSD 7.2 with no CDs: Local Network Installation

I don’t want to burn a bunch of CDs for a single use. It’s a waste of blank CD-Rs (I bought 50 of them in 2004, and I’ve only got a few left).

This time I went for a different tactic: a net installation of FreeBSD using another computer as the remote host.

Make Python Scripts Droppable in Windows

I’m writing an FTP uploader in python, and I want to be able to drop a folder on my script to make it go, using the dropped folder as the argument. Unfortunately, Windows doesn’t recognize .py files as drop targets†.