I recently needed to install FreeNAS without being able to boot the installer on the target host, so had to resort to PXE and a network install. It was less straightforward than you might expect. This How-To should help anyone in a similar position.
On Internet security and customer data privacy, and the attempts of governments to unravel it all for questionable gains. I look at the case of LavaBit and the FBI attempting to access every customer’s data in order to get at one.
Once upon a time, wealthy patrons were how the arts and sciences got their work done. Jack Conte is taking a stab at reviving the practice, with a modern crowd-funding approach.
That time I reminisced about BBS games I liked to play, and considered writing a modern take on one of my favouries.
The new trailer for Where The Wild Things Are makes me want to see this movie more and more.
It’s generally accepted in the DNS community that using a stateful load balancer in front of DNS servers is a bad idea. Here I present one alternative that doesn’t require running routing daemons on the servers themselves.
Sometimes songs get stuck in my head. Sometimes they’re good enough to share.