2016-02-27

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.

2013-10-11

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.

2013-05-16

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.

2009-02-22 (Updated: 2010-02-15 )

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.

2009-01-18

Sometimes songs get stuck in my head. Sometimes they’re good enough to share.