One of the problems plaguing our technology-biased society is that electronics have become disposable. We are at a point that anyone who has a smartphone that is more than a year or two old is viewed poorly in certain circles. I do not run with that crowd.
You may not be aware that the Nexus 4 i...
I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m a big fan of the Open Source movement- I’ve built a career out of supporting “free” software. For a brief flash in the pan of the late 90s and early 2000s, most technology based corporations saw the possible future of Linux, and embraced it wholly. It’s not qui...
I don’t really have much of interest to share at the moment- we’ve got at least 8” of fresh powder outside, so no work has commenced on the various car projects this weekend.
I’ve been following DragonFlyBSD from the sidelines for nearly a decade. It’s a fork of FreeBSD 4, when Matt Dillon decid...
Until the last decade, it was very common to have “one task per system”, or, when running on a shoestring, “a few tasks”, such as the case of a software firewall which also worked as a mail transport agent.
Thanks to the magic of hardware and operating system assisted virtualization, we no longer...
If you aren’t familiar with LEDE, don’t feel alone. It’s an embedded Linux based upon OpenWRT’s foundations.
I’ve been a fan of OpenWRT for years- it follows the Debian “Unencumbered” design (which is why it supports less devices than DD-WRT or Tomato), and leaves it up to the administrator of t...
It was time to renew several certificates, and I noticed that Lets Encrypt’ new certbot (as of 0.10 or 0.11) was issuing single certificates for zones grouped together, with the Alt Name set for the other DNS entries for zones sharing a single IP.
What does this mean in English? Think of an SNI SS...