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OpenBSD 4.6 .ISO available for download!

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Not too long ago the OpenBSD Journalannounced the OpenBSD 4.6 release had arrived via mail for a few of those that had purchased the release. Since the release of OpenBSD 4.2, the installation ISO's have been made available for free at no charge as opposed to before where they were only available via purchasing the official CD set.

OpenBSD is most likely taking their time adding 4.6 to the mirrors since there were reportedly some issues with the creation or distribution of the purchased set [who wants to buy something and have it online before you even get your purchased copy!]. Until now I haven't been able to find the 4.6 install ISO for download on any mirrors. After digging around and some crafty google searching I found an install mirror with 4.6.

OpenWRT is awesome, my installation and setup experience...

I had an old WRT54G v2, it has been running old sveasoft code for over a half decade, doing it well at that. I wanted something better that would work on that platform, and hesitant until now, I've found it. OpenWRT offers hundreds of packages which can be installed just like a package on any other Linux OS giving it an immense amount of flexibility. Using X-WRT I've also given it a great interface which I can view nice RRD graphs [like m0n0wall & pfsense], and quite a few other nice features.

Anyone worked with the WRT350N?

looking at OpenWRT, I  noticed on their hardware compatibility list that the processor was over the top and it had a sufficient amount of space for installing additional packages. It also has a usb port; having this much flexibility, basically opens up your wildest imaginations. The downfall is they have been cut from production, so if an opinion would be great.

Request: Post your conky.conf files

QuickBreeze asked about this today and his email has seemed to have changed, just in case you didn't get the email, here's the Setup.

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conky.conf (14)5.67 KB

Users with 50+ posts may join the private ModernGeek swarm

Ok, so I've been wanting to get a private cloud going with trusted users, and friends, but since many of you are long time friends, I figured this was a good place to start. People that have been verified by either the community or myself, can join the swarm. OneSwarm client is working great and running all the better every day, it's a power tool for anonymity even in a trusted ring of users.

Sun on Privacy: 'Get Over It' ...Flashback from 1.26.99

Wired Magazine covered an article back in 1999 with sun. Here's the scoop ...Back in 1999

The chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems said Monday that consumer privacy issues are a "red herring."

"You have zero privacy anyway," Scott McNealy told a group of reporters and analysts Monday night at an event to launch his company's new Jini technology.

...Read the rest of the article over here.

Anyone besides me using blocklists...Iplist, moblock, peerguardian, etc...

I'm currently using the bluetack-3 lists as well as a few others. On my primary machine I have setup iplist using IPblock for the interface making it much easier to allow certain connections as I see fit. Knowing that I'm paranoid in my connectivity; I make it standard practice to block more than I should; later allowing any unnecessary blockages manually. 

PfSense followup...wow, absolutely amazing!

Not too long ago I setup pfsense and wrote an article, since then I have accrued a tremendous amount of logs, which I can analyse and tune the network with; I have to say that I am thoroughly impressed. Using Ntop, pftop, and Snort alongside everything else is absolutely amazing. The only downfall I can think of is that I have yet to find a solution that EASILY impliments blocklists and offers automated updating [of the lists]. I'm frantically searching for a solution at the moment.

PfSense up and running, initial thoughts...

I have been wanting to implement a pf [Packet Filter] based firewall, routing solution since I've started playing with OpenBSD so much. Considering I have a half-dozen machines running here, saving a bit of power might be a good idea :D. For now I'm running One of my old 4U rackmount servers with pfsense, soon though I will have a nice small form factor solution to copy over my current configuration to.

OpenBSD UnEarthed - Issue: 1, Vol. 1 [Issue 1.01] - Getting to know OpenBSD

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Welcome to the first "OpenBSD Unearthed" article. This article is about getting to know OpenBSD. Topics of post-install and some essential tips to get you off the ground with your new OpenBSD Installation. For obtaining and installing OpenBSD

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