I had to go read the About and the Why Fork section in the docs to see what was going on. Apparently some company bought much of pfSense, changed licenses, and branded some of it. The OPNsense folks, who were supporting it up to then, decided to fork the code.
I have been setting up my own firewall for about 20 years now I guess and recently, at the recommendation of a couple of friends, snagged pfSense for my new home VMWare environment. Worked for replacing the firewall and even better for the other services I was configuring on my own on my old gear. I may whip up a quick VM and load up OPNsense just to see what the fuss is about.
When management can pay $20,000 a year to a worker in the Philippines to write code, what incentive is there for me to learn how to write code? I can't beat $20,000 a year.
Yep. They're in the neighborhood today with a ditch digger to run it up to the house and then next week to run it to my internal server farm:) Once in and I know it's working, I'll package up the Comcast gear and bring it down to the offices to cancel service.
City has laid fiber out to the curb and has made it available to residents. I never watch broadcast TV (been 4 years now) so I only had Comcast for high speed; 110 download/26 upload as of the last Speedtest. Honestly though, I've almost never had a problem with Comcast with an outage happening very very seldom in Virginia and Colorado and I've been on Comcast since the mid 90's. The main reason I'm switching is the price for 1G/1G fiber to the house is $50 a month vs the $130 a month for Comcast 'Blast'.
I'd forgotten about Al Jazeera. I'll have to add that to my reading list. I've checked out RT a few times over the past couple of months. The font is hideous:)
No dongles for work as the Thunderbolt display plugs right in and the network cable plugs into the display as does the mouse and keyboard.
For plugging it in at home, I have the Thunderbolt to VGA dongle and the mouse plugs into the USB port. I did try to use my wireless mouse but the Mac didn't support the wireless USB transmitter.
I only have the laptop. I did have a couple of desktop machines configured as support devices for my script repo but recently got rid of them as the virtual folks just gave me a VM for such things.
Pretty much this. I have a newer MacBook Pro laptop. Work has provided (after some wrangling) a nice Thunderbolt display and Mac keyboard and I provided my own Logitech trackball (can't stand the mouse). When I'm at home, I plug it in to my 23" Acer, wireless Mac keyboard, and another Logitech trackball.
I will say I have a pretty nice gaming machine but that's my personal kit and not work related.
They have deadlines to get a package to a door and be on their way. That's why sometimes they just leave a sticky on the door even though I'm sitting in the living room watching them scurry up, stick it to the door, and be gone before I can get to the door. They're behind schedule.
I've had 2 AMD 4870 cards on Windows 7 and they kept blue screening on boot pointing to the driver as the problem in the dumps. Upgrading was fun as well including one upgrade that forced a reinstall of Windows 7 to recover. I finally replaced them with slightly less powerful nVidia 560 cards (which brand I was using prior to the AMD cards) and while there were driver issues (driver has been restarted), I never had blue screens. My current system has a pair of nNivdia 970's and no issues since I bought them.
I have stuffed animals from various events over the years like bears, a couple of dogs (one looks like Grimm from the comic), cat, dragons, a Domino's Noid, a Dilbert PHB, a dragon, Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, and a bag of eyes from some Halloween thing.
I couldn't tell you the last time I logged in to my Comcast email account. It's been quite a few years. Last time someone had given my email out as part of some family or friends listing and were posting all sorts of nonsense.
I got my Silver as a Peer Award from work or I wouldn't have purchased one. Same with the 42" TV. Too bad they killed those awards. Next year I was hunting for a car:D
Hell yea. I do the same for my motorcycle trips to work and back and general running around. Some dill-hole pulling in front of you or running you down can do a he-said/she-said unless you have video proof.
Good thing I fact checked this by reading the article, Comrade. He wasn't 'Paid' $10,000 a month, he made it via Ads on the stories he posted and the visits by gullible people.
"The writer said he makes about $10,000 a month through advertising."
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I had to go read the About and the Why Fork section in the docs to see what was going on. Apparently some company bought much of pfSense, changed licenses, and branded some of it. The OPNsense folks, who were supporting it up to then, decided to fork the code.
I have been setting up my own firewall for about 20 years now I guess and recently, at the recommendation of a couple of friends, snagged pfSense for my new home VMWare environment. Worked for replacing the firewall and even better for the other services I was configuring on my own on my old gear. I may whip up a quick VM and load up OPNsense just to see what the fuss is about.
[John]
When management can pay $20,000 a year to a worker in the Philippines to write code, what incentive is there for me to learn how to write code? I can't beat $20,000 a year.
[John]
No data cap per the FAQ.
Yeppers. Cut the Comcast cord a few hours ago. Gig up and Gig down. :)
[John]
Carpenter Bees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I had them burrow into the fascia for my deck when I lived in Virginia. If you sit on the deck, you can hear them chewing away.
[John]
Yep. They're in the neighborhood today with a ditch digger to run it up to the house and then next week to run it to my internal server farm :) Once in and I know it's working, I'll package up the Comcast gear and bring it down to the offices to cancel service.
[John]
City has laid fiber out to the curb and has made it available to residents. I never watch broadcast TV (been 4 years now) so I only had Comcast for high speed; 110 download/26 upload as of the last Speedtest. Honestly though, I've almost never had a problem with Comcast with an outage happening very very seldom in Virginia and Colorado and I've been on Comcast since the mid 90's. The main reason I'm switching is the price for 1G/1G fiber to the house is $50 a month vs the $130 a month for Comcast 'Blast'.
[John]
Yea, it was more of a reference as Cthulhu is more known than the specific Mountains of Madness story.
[John]
Cthulhu. "Beyond The Mountains of Madness"
ia ia fhtagn!
[John]
I'd forgotten about Al Jazeera. I'll have to add that to my reading list. I've checked out RT a few times over the past couple of months. The font is hideous :)
[John]
Now now, this is all Main Stream Media and fake news. Got anything from breitbart or infowars? :-/
[John]
The Thunderbolt display has an ethernet port plus 5 other ports (3 USB, another Thunderbolt, and something else I can't make out).
So just two cables; the Thunderbolt cable and the power cable.
[John]
No dongles for work as the Thunderbolt display plugs right in and the network cable plugs into the display as does the mouse and keyboard.
For plugging it in at home, I have the Thunderbolt to VGA dongle and the mouse plugs into the USB port. I did try to use my wireless mouse but the Mac didn't support the wireless USB transmitter.
I only have the laptop. I did have a couple of desktop machines configured as support devices for my script repo but recently got rid of them as the virtual folks just gave me a VM for such things.
[John]
Pretty much this. I have a newer MacBook Pro laptop. Work has provided (after some wrangling) a nice Thunderbolt display and Mac keyboard and I provided my own Logitech trackball (can't stand the mouse). When I'm at home, I plug it in to my 23" Acer, wireless Mac keyboard, and another Logitech trackball.
I will say I have a pretty nice gaming machine but that's my personal kit and not work related.
[John]
They have deadlines to get a package to a door and be on their way. That's why sometimes they just leave a sticky on the door even though I'm sitting in the living room watching them scurry up, stick it to the door, and be gone before I can get to the door. They're behind schedule.
[John]
I've had 2 AMD 4870 cards on Windows 7 and they kept blue screening on boot pointing to the driver as the problem in the dumps. Upgrading was fun as well including one upgrade that forced a reinstall of Windows 7 to recover. I finally replaced them with slightly less powerful nVidia 560 cards (which brand I was using prior to the AMD cards) and while there were driver issues (driver has been restarted), I never had blue screens. My current system has a pair of nNivdia 970's and no issues since I bought them.
[John]
Then you don't get no movies... (at least for now)
[John]
I have stuffed animals from various events over the years like bears, a couple of dogs (one looks like Grimm from the comic), cat, dragons, a Domino's Noid, a Dilbert PHB, a dragon, Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, and a bag of eyes from some Halloween thing.
[John]
Now now, you know snopes has a liberal bent and is not to be believed for anything political.
[John]
I couldn't tell you the last time I logged in to my Comcast email account. It's been quite a few years. Last time someone had given my email out as part of some family or friends listing and were posting all sorts of nonsense.
[John]
I got my Silver as a Peer Award from work or I wouldn't have purchased one. Same with the 42" TV. Too bad they killed those awards. Next year I was hunting for a car :D
[John]
Hell yea. I do the same for my motorcycle trips to work and back and general running around. Some dill-hole pulling in front of you or running you down can do a he-said/she-said unless you have video proof.
[John]
The problem is the folks who believe fake news _do_ vote.
[John]
I think most folks get their "news" from Facebook or Twitter and fail to read further or check such "facts" against other sites.
[John]
Good thing I fact checked this by reading the article, Comrade. He wasn't 'Paid' $10,000 a month, he made it via Ads on the stories he posted and the visits by gullible people.
"The writer said he makes about $10,000 a month through advertising."
[John]