Monthly Archives: October 2007
Base Jumping Into a Cave
I don’t care where you live, this is freaking cool. These guys are jumping into the Cave of Swallows in Mexico. This clip is from the “Caves” section of the BBC’s awesome documentary Planet Earth.
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Installing Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on an ThinkPad X61 Tablet
This weekend I installed Gutsy, now officially known as Kubuntu 7.10 on my X61. I decided I’d try and write up a guide on thinkwiki.org. Because I don’t have an optical drive for my laptop, installation was a bit tricky, … Continue reading
DHCP Failover on OpenBSD
I have been running a DHCP server on my home network for eons now, and today I decided I’d move it on to my OpenBSD firewall cluster. It probably really shouldn’t be there but I already run a handful of … Continue reading
Running xntpd on my OpenBSD firewall cluster
Now that my firewall cluster is working better, I can add some additional critical services to it. For a long time I have run a time server on a machine on my network so we can have consistant accurate time. … Continue reading
OpenBSD Firewall Cluster
I have been running an OpenBSD firewall cluster on my home network for some time. These two machines use CARP and pfsync to seamlessly fail over interfaces in case of a hardware or software failure. This has been quite convenient, … Continue reading
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