Recent
Some recent work:
- Crash Recovery with ZFS Did your FreeBSD system crash and burn and won’t boot? Read on!
- IPFW is one of the firewalls that has been available in FreeBSD for over twenty years. Perhaps not as well known as PF (Packet Filter, of OpenBSD fame), IPFW is nevertheless a very capable network firewall. This book length primer will teach you all the essentials of IPFW. Its hands-on style uses QEMU for setting up multiple FreeBSD instances and harnesses some Bourne shell scripting gems to provide an easy way to learn IPFW.
- Phorging Your Own Way - Bringing up a Phorge Instance Set up a professional software engineering environment for multiple teams on FreeBSD.
- Can You Hear Me Now? - Getting Sound Working on FreeBSD Swim through the maze of configurations to getting sound working.
- Conky Weather Or Not - Getting Weather Data into Conky, Part II Utilize Conky to get weather data and show the forecast for your location
- Conky Weather Or Not - Getting Weather Data into Conky Utilize Conky to get weather data and show the forecast for your location
- Tapping into Qemu - Be your own hosting provider Pair up Qemu with FreeBSD, and the if_bridge(4) and tap(4) interfaces to create a complete virtualized network inside your host machine.
- xstackutils - Getting fancy with the ffmpeg ‘xstack’ filter Forget the ffmpeg overlay filter. Use the xstack filter to create an awesome mosaic/matrix of live video feeds. Read this techbits article and click here for some scripts to help get started. (sha256 checksum)
- Setting up a Time Stamping Authority with OpenSSL This paper describes how to set up a Time Stamp Authority process with OpenSSL.
- Cracking Passwords with hashcat and Comboleetor Forget your password? Try comboleetor.pl and hashcat.
- Specifying the Order of Files on a DVD This paper shows how to specify the order of files on a DVD you create with mkisofs(1).
- Securely Wiping Disks With OpenBSD This paper came from a project to wipe hundreds of disk drives on old, hard to disassemble eqipment. Click here for the iso and here for the sha256 checksum