Archive for December, 2006

Merry Christmas and would you please fix my computer?

Thursday, 28th of December 2006

Every family has a computer expert. His (or her) job is to help the rest of the family with all their computer problems. Everytime the family computer expert is visiting he (or she) needs to get through a list of things which need to be fixed. You might have already guessed that I’m that expert [...]

The Silence of the Packets

Thursday, 14th of December 2006

As part of my ongoing attempt to simplify my IT infrastructure at home I recently decided to replace my NetBSD firewall and the external DSL modem with a router appliance. The list of advantages was long: Less noise and power consumption, the firewall was a SPARCstation 20. One less UN*X system to look after. Less [...]