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.screenrc

What you do when you’ve been slack and haven’t posted for months? You think of something interesting to say. What do you do when your mind goes blank? You post a screen shot or a dot file. As a bonus, here’s both:
Screen shot of my xterm session in OS X:

And here’s my .screenrc file:

activity “activity: [...]

Email Heaven

I have just migrated my email over to a new VPS. Okay, a not-so-new VPS. I’ve had it for a while, but it’s only now that I’ve gotten around to taking care of the email migration. I love IMAP. I seriously don’t think that I could ever go back to using POP for my email.
I [...]

Way back then, I wrote a tutorial on how to set up a FAMP server. Some things have changed since then, and this tutorial gives a quick run down on how to do it today. I have tried to explain the whys as well as giving the steps. Installing FreeBSD is beyond the scope of [...]

Webalizer

I have just installed webalizer on node.mu. I was waiting for google analytics to start accepting signups again, but I imagine that the waiting list might be very long. Webalizer is simple to install and suits my needs well enough. I’ll test-drive analytics in due time.
Just shoot me an email if you have an account [...]

Example PF Rules

Here’s a working set of PF rules that I’ve used before on my FreeBSD gateway. I posted this before on port80.
Hopefully it will help someone out there. It is sometimes easier to take a working set of rules, understand how it works, and modify to suit your own environment. Anyway, here goes.
ex_if is the external [...]