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More about Pfsense, the alternative to the crappy consumer router

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:00:36 +0000

I spent some time over the weekend playing with Pfsense, and I can’t say much about it other than it does what it says. I didn’t throw a ton of hardware at it–the best motherboard I have laying around is

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Something strange is going on

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:00:18 +0000

I’ve been noticing a lot of slowness that I’ve traced to DNS issues lately, typically with the caching DNS in routers. It happened to me, and it happened to my mom. We have different routers from different manufacturers, and they

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VMWare’s P2V is mildly disappointing but can still save the day

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:10:37 +0000

The order came from higher up: Migrate these seven servers to VMWare. That would be easy if you were running Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2, or basically any operating system not made by Microsoft. Give me an OS/2 hard drive out of a 386 with Microchannel, and I can have it booting on a P4 in a matter of minutes and probably have it operational in half an hour.

But Windows ties itself to the hardware too tightly. So you need a $10,000 software package to migrate it. That package is P2V, which stands for "PC to VMWare." I assume.

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Open sourcing code doesn’t necessarily mean people will rush to it

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:40:38 +0000

John C. Dvorak wrote a nice layman's introduction to open source this week on PCMag.com. But he makes at least one big false assumption.

Dvorak says he'd love to see old code open sourced. Some examples he sought, such as CP/M, CP/M-86, and GEM, have already been open source for years. Caldera, after buying the intellectual property of the former Digital Research from Novell, released just about everything that wasn't directly related to DR-DOS, some of it as GPL, and some under other licenses. The results have hardly been earth shattering.

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A text-mode download manager for Linux/Unix

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:07:25 +0000

Way back when, I used to use a program in Windows called Gozilla to speed up my downloads. The problem with it was that Gozilla was invasive and contained a spyware payload. Competing programs emerged, but it seemed like the biggest added feature was always more spyware. So I gave up on HTTP download accelerators.

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If I had my own Linux distribution

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:54:32 +0000

I found an interesting editorial called If I had my own Linux Distro. He's got some good ideas but I wish he'd known what he was talking about on some others.

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What large market for x86 Unix?

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 08 Mar 2003 15:31:39 +0000

In a bizarre turn of events, SCO has sued IBM for not less than $1 billion, claiming IBM willfully destroyed SCO's business by handing its intellectual property over to the Linux movement.

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Possibly the first Apache worm

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 29 Jun 2002 17:55:19 +0000

I just found this article describing a worm that attempts to infect vulnerable Apache servers running on FreeBSD.

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Analysis of the Apple Mac Xserver

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 20 May 2002 13:05:17 +0000

Given my positive reaction to the Compaq Proliant DL320, Svenson e-mailed and asked me what I thought of Apple's Xserver.

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Vintage PCs and bubblegum and Unix and Windows server crashes

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 06:26:20 +0000

Mail. Svenson wrote in, a little bit disturbed at the "vintage" label I hung on Pentium IIs this week. Here's what he said:

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