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Once in a while I need to use point-to-point T1 links to connect two sites. Even in today’s world of broadband, a T1 still has lower latency and a higher “upload” rate than VPN over broadband accounts. Here’s how to configure two old Portmaster 3′s to connect back to back: Side A: set line1 t1 [...]

I never really managed to wrap my head around Linux iptables. I can understand pf in BSD without trying too hard, but iptables is in a world of its own. Since I spend most of my time using Cisco routers, there’s not any real incentive for me to learn iptables for the once in a [...]

Coming this summer 2009: the Willis Tower. What the hell? That’s right folks, they’re going to rename the Sears Tower because some new tenant from the UK decided they want their name on it. I mean seriously, why deface such an iconic landmark? Sears built it, not you. Maybe you should do something that that’s [...]

As I just mentioned, nothing exciting happens around here. That is, until a transformer at a substation blows up and lights everything in range on fire. I apologize for my craptastic cell phone camera, it’s unfortunately all I had with me at the time. Before it blew, the lights had been flickering occasionally for several [...]

Nothing exciting ever happens here. While the rest of the country has had ice storms, floods, tornadoes, gas shortages, hurricanes, rolling blackouts and more in recent months, absolutely nothing has happened here in good ol’ Reno.

It looks like whoever designed Google’s new favicon took the Windows logo, rotated it 90 degrees, got rid of the gradients, and stuck a lowercase “g” on it. Good job. (Not.)

Here’s how I put a Xen DomU on a VLAN in Debian. eth0 is connected to a trunk port on the switch, and the untagged vlan is used for dom0 connectivity. You shoud already know how to do this part. Tagged VLANs are assigned to bridge groups on the dom0. In your /etc/network/interfaces do the [...]