This morning I move the last of the services and data off the system I’ve had at LayeredTech since November 2005. This little AMD XP 2400 has given great service over the years, but the hardware got increasingly flaky and the cost of hosting at LT just keeps increasing for old kit. These [...]
RIP LT box
March 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: FreeBSD · Systems Administration · Uncategorized
Stable builds
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments
I was cleaning out some old notes the other day and came across a pile of work relating to the development of some custom FreeBSD firewall solutions that Neil and I developed while at Itouch Labs, many years back in 2002.
The majority of the code is completely out dated, given these were based on the [...]
Tags: FreeBSD · Networking · Systems Administration
Systems Administration Cheet Sheets
May 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Colin Barschel has published a rather complete listing of how to perform common unix related tasks in Linux and FreeBSD, and even some Solaris examples. Even better hes got a booklet version as well for easy printing. Something to keep on the back burner/bookmarks for when you get stuck trying to remember just how [...]
Tags: FreeBSD · Linux · Systems Administration · Unix
Remote FreeBSD install – Depenguinator TNG
April 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Daniel Gerzo, has recently published an article as part of the FreeBSD documentation project on how to install FreeBSD on a remote system, when one doesn’t have the luxury of a IP KVM or other remote console. Unfortunately most hosting providers seem to think Linux in its gazillions of flavors (really who would want [...]
