Posts Tagged ‘freebsd’

Tweet Most of us don’t have native IPv6 Internet connections at home.  Fortunately, it’s easy (and free) to get connected to the IPv6 Internet.  Here’s how to get your FreeBSD box connected. Tweet

Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 00:22 | Comments Off
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Tweet I spent some time thinking about backup strategy, and I decided for my purposes, I’d like to handle the staging process (getting all the files put together), and I’d like the backup solution itself to simply upload the files – but since I want to do nightly backups, I’d like the backup solution to [...]

Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 22:35 | Comments Off
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Tweet The FreeBSD console is colorless by default – but most terminals and SSH clients these days support color.  The benefits of colorizing your console should be pretty obvious.  It makes your life a little easier – you don’t have to do as much mental processing. Tweet

Sunday, February 28th, 2010 at 17:08 | Comments Off
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Tweet Whether you’re using FreeBSD for your workstation, a simple home server, or in a complex IT environment where reliability is critical, losing the data on your hard disk(s) is probably the worst type of failure you can have.  I’ve already gone over a backup strategy for FreeBSD, but it’s best to try to prevent [...]

Sunday, March 15th, 2009 at 23:01 | Comments Off
Categories: Computing

Tweet I previously discussed configuring JungleDisk on FreeBSD.  It’s not quite the easiest to install since FreeBSD isn’t officially supported.  To take that a step further, I’m now going to show what I do to back up my FreeBSD box at home. Update, November 2009: I am no longer using JungleDisk to back up my [...]

Sunday, March 1st, 2009 at 19:40 | Comments Off
Categories: Computing, Security