pfSense is based on the pf in OpenBSD 4.5. OpenBSD 5.0's pf is greatly improved. There has been a lot of work going into getting an updated pf into FreeBSD, but they're only able to get the PF from OpenBSD 4.5 into 9.0-CURRENT (which is what pfSense 2.1 uses).
I run OpenBSD on my firewall and I mainly run -CURRENT from snapshots and I've never had any problems. -CURRENT rarely breaks.
Good luck trying that. There's tons of spam bots on it that just clog up searches. Nothing useful turns up anyway. It's totally useless. Where do you people find weather emergency alerts and drug cartel movements and stuff anyway? Did you have to sift through "get #viagara #boner http://is.gd/"?
Adblocking detectors don't work on it UNLESS the site uses ads generated on one of their own domains or subdomains (which is rare.. the majority of ads are 3rd party). It's brilliant stuff and is faster than Adblock.
Local Cartridge World here used to push Canon printers, but now Canon are forcing people to buy new ink. (They, Epson and other printer manufacturers sabotage their printers so they won't work with refilled cartridges.)
If you buy a Brother inkjet printer, all their cartridges can be refilled at a fraction of the cost and they don't play games with their printers/cartridges to prevent refilled cartridges from working.
http://www.passwordmaker.org/ All you have to remember is a master password. It will generate secure passwords for you depending on the "note text" you enter (whether it's a domain or something else.)
Has a firefox extension, but also a CLI / PHP / Java version, so you can use it on anything.
What about California Games? Leisure Suit Larry? Wasteland? Yes, there were graphical games in the 80s. They were CGA, EGA, and even VGA, but they existed.
As someone who had used Linux quite extensively for the past 11 years, I recently started rolling out OpenBSD servers at my job. Two OpenBSD firewalls power our production network (using CARP/pfsync) and they do it flawlessly.
In our office, an OpenBSD firewall connected to two DSL modems is able to load balance traffic out, and do proper asymmetric routing. All this thanks to the developers who make a lot of great, innovative code for pf, CARP, pfsync, etc..
I couldn't do any of this properly with Linux, especially not the asymmetric routing.
I've worked on OpenBSD ports to make them better. I've found the developers friendly and helpful. The code is quite solid.
Does anyone still use Junkbuster? I found it quite useful a while back. I suppose it wouldn't take much work to get it back up to snuff with easylist or something similar.
We use OpenBSD with CARP and pfsync and relayd(8). It works a treat load balancing our web and jabber servers. I highly recommend it and the documentation that comes with OpenBSD is second to none. It's also an extremely secure OS for firewalls and routers.
Our brains wire themselves from back to front from babies and our frontal lobe isn't fully wired until age 25. The frontal lobe of the brain controls (paraphrased from Wikipedia): "...the ability to recognize future consequences resulting from current actions, to choose between good and bad actions (or better and best), override and suppress unacceptable social responses, and determine similarities and differences between things or events."
It's quite obvious he had severe anger management issues, couple that with the fact that he's a teenager and wouldn't be thinking of the consequences of his actions, and you have a recipe for disaster.
Video game addiction is real. When you can't get your fix, you act just like a drug addict. I was the same with World of Warcraft over 2 years ago. I didn't kill anyone over it. I think if the gun had no been around in the house, this tragedy could have been averted.
I have an ADSL connection with a really small company called Upstream Internet and they provide a great service. They specialise in bonding two or more ADSL lines together for bandwidth and do a pretty good job if you have to raise a fault to BT on something.
I think that the smaller companies have such a much better track record of service to customers than the big, faceless monster companies like BT and Virgin/NTL. Definitely worth looking into.
Does anyone know if the Phoronix Test Suite will work under OpenBSD and NetBSD too? Says on the website: "Runs On Linux, OpenSolaris, Mac OS X, & FreeBSD Operating Systems"
I'm curious as to how the other BSDs would perform.
Slashdot Mirror
Use Adsuck and web pages won't even know you're blocking the ads (because they are blocked at the DNS level)
There's been quite a bit of improvement with pf's performance.
Check out Henning Brauer & Ryan McBride's 10 years of PF presentation.
pfSense is based on the pf in OpenBSD 4.5. OpenBSD 5.0's pf is greatly improved.
There has been a lot of work going into getting an updated pf into FreeBSD, but they're only able to get the PF from OpenBSD 4.5 into 9.0-CURRENT (which is what pfSense 2.1 uses).
I run OpenBSD on my firewall and I mainly run -CURRENT from snapshots and I've never had any problems. -CURRENT rarely breaks.
Web RTC Site
It's what Google Hangouts uses. I would love to set up some sort of Web RTC server on my own system to use.
There's a very simple solution to this. Just download & install xxxterm and adsuck. Those scumsucking advertisers won't be able to track you anymore.
http://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/Adsuck
http://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/XXXTerm
dig +short rs.dns-oarc.net txt now returns absolutely nothing.. on IPv4. The IPv6 one still works.
Stop using Facebook, altogether.
Don't buy into Mark Suckerberg's crap.
Good luck trying that. There's tons of spam bots on it that just clog up searches. Nothing useful turns up anyway. It's totally useless. Where do you people find weather emergency alerts and drug cartel movements and stuff anyway? Did you have to sift through "get #viagara #boner http://is.gd/"?
Or you could run Adsuck
Adblocking detectors don't work on it UNLESS the site uses ads generated on one of their own domains or subdomains (which is rare.. the majority of ads are 3rd party). It's brilliant stuff and is faster than Adblock.
You can always run OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org) Only one security hole found in over 10 years!
Sign out of the bloody game for good: http://www.wowdetox.com/
I did just over 3 years ago and don't regret it.
Local Cartridge World here used to push Canon printers, but now Canon are forcing people to buy new ink. (They, Epson and other printer manufacturers sabotage their printers so they won't work with refilled cartridges.)
If you buy a Brother inkjet printer, all their cartridges can be refilled at a fraction of the cost and they don't play games with their
printers/cartridges to prevent refilled cartridges from working.
One day I will invent a time machine and go back in time and destroy anime before it was ever created.
http://www.passwordmaker.org/
All you have to remember is a master password. It will generate secure passwords for you depending on the "note text" you enter (whether it's a domain or something else.)
Has a firefox extension, but also a CLI / PHP / Java version, so you can use it on anything.
I'm going to third the suggestion. I set up OpenBSD on a Soekris Net 5501 as my firewall and it works great as mail/web/firewall/jabber server.
What about California Games? Leisure Suit Larry? Wasteland?
Yes, there were graphical games in the 80s. They were CGA, EGA,
and even VGA, but they existed.
http://lwn.net/Articles/354891/
Otherwise, OpenSSH is fantastically secure. :)
As someone who had used Linux quite extensively for the past 11 years, I recently started rolling out OpenBSD servers at my job. Two OpenBSD firewalls power our production network (using CARP/pfsync) and they do it flawlessly.
In our office, an OpenBSD firewall connected to two DSL modems is able to load balance traffic out, and do proper asymmetric routing. All this thanks to the developers who make a lot of great, innovative code for pf, CARP, pfsync, etc..
I couldn't do any of this properly with Linux, especially not the asymmetric routing.
I've worked on OpenBSD ports to make them better. I've found the developers friendly and helpful. The code is quite solid.
Oops.. I meant Privoxy. Junkbuster was ancient history. Damn you caffeine for not kicking in fast enough!
Does anyone still use Junkbuster? I found it quite useful a while back. I suppose it wouldn't take much work to get it back up to snuff with easylist or something similar.
We use OpenBSD with CARP and pfsync and relayd(8). It works a treat load balancing our web and jabber servers. I highly recommend it and the documentation that comes with OpenBSD is second to none. It's also an extremely secure OS for firewalls and routers.
I've installed it on my little 4G and my wife's 1000HD and it works great.
DebianEeePC
Nice thing about Debian is it doesn't install a ton of cruft like Ubuntu seems to. (I've used both distros.)
Our brains wire themselves from back to front from babies and our frontal lobe isn't fully wired until age 25. The frontal lobe of the brain controls (paraphrased from Wikipedia): "...the ability to recognize future consequences resulting from current actions, to choose between good and bad actions (or better and best), override and suppress unacceptable social responses, and determine similarities and differences between things or events."
It's quite obvious he had severe anger management issues, couple that with the fact that he's a teenager and wouldn't be thinking of the consequences of his actions, and you have a recipe for disaster.
Video game addiction is real. When you can't get your fix, you act just like a drug addict. I was the same with World of Warcraft over 2 years ago. I didn't kill anyone over it. I think if the gun had no been around in the house, this tragedy could have been averted.
I have an ADSL connection with a really small company called Upstream Internet and they provide a great service. They specialise in bonding two or more ADSL lines together for bandwidth and do a pretty good job if you have to raise a fault to BT on something.
I think that the smaller companies have such a much better track record of service to customers than the big, faceless monster companies like BT and Virgin/NTL. Definitely worth looking into.
Does anyone know if the Phoronix Test Suite will work under OpenBSD and NetBSD too? Says on the website: "Runs On Linux, OpenSolaris, Mac OS X, & FreeBSD Operating Systems"
I'm curious as to how the other BSDs would perform.