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dkh@undisclosed.example.com (dkh) — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:36:52 +0000

Linux I've worked with most of the Redhat variants in the past and have a passing familiarity with a number of others but lately I've found myself using Alpine a lot more. Now days the only real use I have for Linux is for a few Docker things. Hopefully that changes as podman on FreeBSD matures. FreeBSD has jails and bhyve which I use often but there are some projects out there that distribute for docker only. I'm not a big fan of Docker - it has it's place but there are a LOT of downsides as w…

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dkh@undisclosed.example.com (dkh) — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:15:02 +0000

Starting X-Windows/New Terminal My current method of spinning up a new cygwin terminal session leverages mintty. When it kicks off it checks to see if X and my ssh agent are running - if not it starts them. I have mintty pined to my task bar with the following target set:

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dkh@undisclosed.example.com (dkh) — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:17:53 +0000

Ramblings I've used FreeBSD for over twenty years. I started with it somewhere around release 2.2.x. It's come a long way. It's an amazing product. Take a gander at the list of products based on it (wikipedia). I don't believe that list is exhaustive by any means. The operating system is at the core of things many of us touch every day.

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dkh@undisclosed.example.com (dkh) — Fri, 03 May 2024 17:48:42 +0000

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dkh@undisclosed.example.com (dkh) — Fri, 03 May 2024 15:29:35 +0000

IPFW with FireHOL block lists The FireHOL project, another firewall and qos project, compiles a set of ip block lists. There are a number of lists that have different focuses - there is some overlap between them. These could be handy to use with IPFW. So let's see what we can do