I’ve been playing with OpenVPN since mid December. I like it. I like it better than IPsec. Why? Because OpenVPN can give me direct access to all my systems wherever I am. I can cvsup from my cvsup server at home from a hotel in Toledo (if I’m ever there). IPsec can do that. But it is much more complex to set up. OpenVPN is pretty simple. At present, my wireless gateway is […]
Good bye IPsec. Hello OpenVPN. Read More »
In 17 days, I’ll be in Florida. I’m heading down to Palm Beach on business, then over to Tampa to visit friends, and catch a Lightning game. The tickets are vastly cheaper than in Ottawa. Tampa will be playing New Jersey. Ottawa play on Saturday, but by then, I’ll be in Washington for Shmoocon before getting back home on Sunday. I plan to hit the roller coasters while in Tampa. I’m told Busch
Heading south for a few days Read More »
Here is my latest contribution to fight spam: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html
Ever had a cactus remotely injected? Sounds painful. Not really.
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More and more people are learning about Bacula. Here is a little survey I did at LISA06.
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There will be a PostgreSQL Conference in May 2007. I’ll definintely be there! I’m looking forward to this. It’s right after a BSD conference. There will be quite a few people attending both conferences. One trip, two conferences, a great time.
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I’ve taken quite a liking to spamd and pf. I’m in the midst of documenting how to set it up on FreeBSD. I found one snag today: spamlogd was not updating the spamd table. It seems I’ve found the answer on the pf mailing list. Stay tuned.
Nokia has the right idea. Why make different rechargers for each phone? Why not have one recharger for every phone? That way, should I forget my recharger when I go to a conference, I can borrow a recharger from any other Nokia owner. That is what happened this morning at NYCBSDCon. My phone was dying and my recharger was at home. OUCH.
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Today, as I was writing up an invoice, I accidentally saved it over another. No worries! Bacula to the rescue. I managed to get the original files back from tape. One hint: include your pathnames in “quotes” so they are correctly parsed. Like this: $ dir ———- 0 root wheel 0 1969-12-31 19:00:00 c:/ $ cd “c:/Documents and Settings/Dan Langille/My Documents/Technologies” cwd is: c:/Documents and Settings/Dan Langille/My Documents/Technologies/ $ dir -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 63655 2006-10-05 14:32:49 c:/Documents and Settings/Dan Langille/My
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I recently purchased four DLT drives; three from one seller, and one from another. The three drives cost me $30.25 to ship from Edmonton to Ottawa via Canada Post. The other drive cost me $48 in shipping. I knew that was on the high side when I bid for the item on ebay. I don’t think I got value for money as these images can demonstrate: I have emailed the seller. Hopefully we
How much shipping cost is fair? Read More »