Archive for December, 2008

avahi on pfSense

12-29-08

I moved my iTunes library to my NAS tonight and setup Firefly to serve the library (another post).  All was working great until I moved back to the wireless network which happens to be on a different subnet.  My firewall is on the development branch of pfSense (currently slated for 2.0) and I’ve been bitten by some of the new interface code enough to not have the stomach to try and bridge the two interfaces (I actually tried that at one point and spent a fair amount of time fixing it), so I decided to look into Avahi some.

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Posted by billm on December 29, 2008

Not exactly what I was expecting to be my second post, but I ran across ‘glTail.rb – realtime logfile visualization‘ tonight and was quite impressed.  While I probably won’t end up doing much with it, it’ll be a cool toy to play with initially.  I’d love to make it a screensaver, at work I’ve got a machine on my desk that I usually SSH into, but has a console on it.  Could be neat to run there.  At any rate, I wanted to share this and the fact that it’s written in ruby is just a bonus for me :)   Looking forward to trying this while waiting on installs and compiles tomorrow!

Posted by billm on December 15, 2008

After spending days rebuilding network stuff and wishing that I was sharing the info, I decided that it was high time to resurrect this site and start blogging again.  hitormiss.ucsecurity.com is no more, I’m not bringing it back, nor am I bringing back the old content, it seemed appropriate to finally use the www subdomain for this as I don’t see myself ever using this domain for anything more useful.  I’ve got a few posts festering in my brain right now that I’d like to put down, but it’s too late tonight to start on them, just wanted to get the “first post” on the blog.

Posted by billm on December 15, 2008