While the Dell Inspiron 7352 is not my primary FreeBSD laptop (that would be an HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G1 G3), the Inspiron is the laptop I use exclusively for schoolwork and my job at NYU CUSP. One issue this laptop has with FreeBSD is the fact that when I…
I just got a new home server: a HP ProLiant ML110 G6. Being a FreeBSD person myself, it was natural that I used it on my server instead of Linux. I chose to use ezjail to manage the jails on my ProLiant, with the initial one being a Tor middle…
Today, I wanted to try to see how the Internet looks behind the Great Firewall of China. I used a public HTTP proxy list listing Chinese proxy servers (meaning getting into Chinese censorship from the US, not bypassing it in China), and guess what? I was already blocked. Why? I…
I recently acquired a HP EliteBook 9470m (before you ask: it's personal), and installed FreeBSD on it. The Synaptics touchpad is detected on FreeBSD as a PS/2 mouse on both laptops, and unlike the 2570p I was coming from, the 9470m doesn't automatically fallback to edge scrolling. While web…
I certainly am late to the party, but I got a Minecraft license as a gift. As a user of FreeBSD on the desktop, I do run into a few problems, one being that I can't run Minecraft out of the box. To get Minecraft running on FreeBSD, first you…
If you haven't noticed, I have changed my website again. This time, I'm using the popular Node.js blogging platform Ghost. Installing Ghost on FreeBSD did take some effort, primarily because npm didn't detect sqlite3 on my system unless I ran: npm install sqlite3 --sqlite=/usr/local To install Node's…
UPDATE: A cleaner solution to this can be found in the section Cleaner Solution below. I moved it to the top as of August 30th. If you are still interested with the old cron based solution, it is in the section Old Solution. Cleaner Solution: Looking at the comments on…
OnionLauncher is a launcher for the Internet anonomity software Tor using Python, PyQt5, and Stem. It is similar to a prevoius project I done (TorNova), but is different in some aspects. But the point of this article is to serve as a guide for OnionLauncher. First, you should make sure…
Sometimes, I like to play with routing (no really) and for me, it is often desirable to route subnets to subrouters (like a Cisco box) behind a WLAN router that does NAT. In my case, the WLAN router is a Asus RT-N56U running Padavan. Unlike Tomato, which provides NAT for…
I accidentally deleted my Pelican website, but couldn't restore it so I had to start from scratch. Luckily, not much was on it. My server didn't crash, it was just human error. Well, hello again!…