Right now, it’s a good idea to check for FreeBSD bash port updates daily
If you haven’t heard about the bash “shellshock” bug yet, it may be time to peek out from underneath the rock you’ve been under ;). While bash isn’t installed as standard on FreeBSD, there’s a very...
View ArticleMaking git work better on Windows
In a previous blog post I explained how you can substantially improve the performance of git on Windows updating the underlying SSH implementation. This performance improvement is very worthwhile in a...
View ArticleInstalling Google Chrome on Ubuntu 15.04
Yes, I know Ubuntu and Xubuntu already come with Chromium in their official package repositories, but sometimes it does help to have the official/commercial version installed in addition to the Open...
View ArticleRotate nginx logs on FreeBSD with newsyslog
I’ve moved from using Apache as a web server to nginx for various projects. The machines I’m running these projects on are a somewhat resource constrained and nginx deals with low resource machines...
View ArticleGetting WordPress to work on FreeBSD 10 with PHP 7.0 and Jetpack
This blog is self-hosted, together with some other services on a FreeBSD virtual server over at RootBSD. Yes, I’m one of those weirdos who hosts their own servers – even if they’re virtual – instead of...
View ArticleHow to make a self-signed SSL certificate work with Windows RT’s Mail App on...
Long title, I know… I was trying to get Windows RT’s Mail App to access the email on my own server. The server uses IMAPS with s self-signed certificate as I only want SSL for it encryption and don’t...
View ArticleWindows 8 has the telnet client turned off by default?
For security reasons, apparently. I can see that making sense with the telnet server but the client? It’s an invaluable network debugging tool, after all, especially in heterogeneous networks. Anyway,...
View ArticleSwitching to Manjaro Linux and getting an AMD RX 470 to work
I’ve been a Xubuntu user for years after switching from OpenSuse. I liked its simplicity and the fact that it just worked out of the box, but I was getting more and more disappointed with Ubuntu...
View ArticleHow to enable telnet in Windows 10
Turns out it’s not only Windows 8 that has its telnet client disabled, Windows 10 is in the same boat. I’ve been using Windows 10 for quite a while now and just discovered this issue. Anyway, the way...
View ArticleFixing package download performance problems in Manjaro Linux
My adventures with Manjaro Linux continue and I’ve even moved my “craptop” – a somewhat ancient Lenovo X240 that I use as a semi-disposable travel laptop – from XUbuntu to Manjaro Linux. But that’s a...
View ArticleManjaro Linux and AMD RX 470, revisited
I’ve blogged about getting Manjaro Linux to work with my AMD RX 470 before. The method described in that post got my AMD RX 470 graphics card working with the default 4.4 kernel. This worked fine –...
View ArticleTracking down why the iOS mail app couldn’t retrieve my email over an LTE...
We all love the odd debugging story, so I finally sat down and wrote up how I debugged a configuration issue that got in the way of the iOS mail app’s ability to retrieve email while I was on the Read...
View ArticleInstalling specific major Java JDK versions on OS X via Homebrew
In an earlier post, I described how to install the latest version of the Oracle Java JDK using homebrew. What hadn’t been completely obvious to me when I wrote the original blog post is that the ‘java’...
View ArticleSetting up my own VPN server on Vultr with Centos 7 and WireGuard
As an IT consultant, I travel a lot. I mean, a lot. Part of the pleasure is having to deal with day-to-day online life on open, potentially free-for-all hotel and conference WiFi. In other words, the...
View ArticleHow to speed up macOS Time Machine backups
macOS Time Machine is usually set up to work in the background and not overly affect anything that’s going on in the foreground while the user is working. Under normal circumstances, this is desirable...
View ArticleInstalling leiningen on Manjaro Linux
I like Lispy languages. One I’ve been playing with – and occasionally been using for smaller projects – is Clojure. Clojure projects usually use Leiningen for their build system. There are generally...
View ArticleLooks like I get to redo my WireGuard VPN server
I’ve blogged about setting up a WireGuard VPN server earlier this year. It’s been running well since, but I needed to take care of some overdue maintenance tasks. Trying to log into the server this...
View ArticleBuilding an OpenBSD Wireguard server
In my previous post, I mentioned that I somehow ended up with a corrupted filesystem on the WireGuard server I had set up earlier this year. That iteration of my VPN server was built on Linux as I...
View ArticleBuilding an OpenBSD WireGuard VPN server part 2 – Unbound DNS setup
In the first part, I described how I set up the basic OpenBSD WireGuard VPN server. I also hinted that I wanted to set up my own validating, filtering DNS server. With a little bit of spare time during...
View ArticleBuilding an OpenBSD WireGuard VPN server part 3 – Unbound DNS filtering
In part 2, I reconfigured my WireGuard VPN to use an Unbound DNS server on the VPN server rather than rely on a third party server I had used for the original quick and dirty configuration. It was...
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