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OpenBSD Router Guide

February 7, 2011 – 12:22 am

I’ve been using OpenBSD as a NAT router for a few years now. Here’s a guide showing how I got it up and running, in case anyone is interested in doing the same.

Posted in Computers, Unix | 2 replies

Updating your music collection with PowerShell

January 2, 2011 – 6:28 pm

I’ve been banging my head against the wall on account of different music players which can’t play the subset of songs I have encoded as either Vorbis or AAC. So I’m slowly converting my entire music library over to MP3, … Continue reading »

PXE booting OpenBSD on an ALIX via Ubuntu Live CD

December 31, 2010 – 9:38 pm

Update: I’ve expanded the contents of this post into a full guide to running an OpenBSD router on an ALIX board. This is a quick guide to booting the OpenBSD installer on a PC Engines ALIX board with tinyBIOS (such … Continue reading »

Advanced Kindle store search

December 29, 2010 – 11:31 pm

I just found a great web site providing a better Kindle content search than what’s baked into Amazon: eReaderIQ.com. You can search by price, publication date, reading level, and whether the book you want is in the public domain, among … Continue reading »

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Microsoft Outlook ruins my evening

December 9, 2010 – 9:44 pm

I had a funny experience yesterday. I don’t typically use Microsoft Outlook with my home email account. But it was bundled with the copy of Office 2010 that I installed a few months ago, and I figured: heck, if I … Continue reading »

Posted in Computers, Windows | 4 replies

Chrome

September 2, 2008 – 8:17 pm

This evening I had the chance to download Google’s newly-released (and by “released” I mean “beta”… hey, it’s Google) web browser, Chrome, and give it a try. They weren’t kidding when they said V8, the new JavaScript virtual machine in … Continue reading »

Posted in Computers, Web | 5 replies