Archive for February, 2009

For those wondering why Circuit City went under

02-28-09

Today, I finally got around to opening an XBox 360 game(Rainbow Six: Vegas 2) I bought from Circuit City two weekends ago.  Only to find that there was no DVD in the case (well, other than the demo of Endwar that was supposed to come with it).  Having read http://www.digitalbattle.com/2009/01/27/boy-gets-redneck-shit-instead-of-madden/ a couple weeks back, I immediately pulled the cellophane from the trash.  I didn’t notice any signs of tampering when I opened it and I didn’t see any signs of tampering after pulling it from the trash.

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Posted by billm on February 28, 2009

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pfSense FreeSWITCH package

02-22-09

I had loads of fun last night with the FreeSWITCH package on pfSense.  All the fun was directly related to my VOIP provider BroadVoice and what was likely a bad initial config.  It ended up taking me somewhere on the order of six hours messing with it, taking tcpdumps and analyzing them (thank you Wireshark!) to decide to try another provider (duh, why didn’t I do this an hour in?).

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Posted by billm on February 22, 2009

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Mac clone maker wins legal round against Apple

02-10-09

Interesting.  Ultimately, I expect Psystar to lose, but I’d certainly like to legally run OSX on a white box, so I can only hope.

February 8, 2009 (Computerworld) A federal judge last week ruled that Psystar Corp. can continue its countersuit against Apple Inc., giving the Mac clone maker a rare win in its seven-month-old battle with Apple.

He also hinted that if Psystar proves its allegations, others may then be free to sell computers with Mac OS X already installed.

Mac clone maker wins legal round against Apple.

Posted by billm on February 10, 2009

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Avahi package on pfSense

02-04-09

Many thanks to Scott who put together an official Avahi package for pfSense. You will need a release based on FreeBSD 7.1 for this package to work (I’m on 2.0 alpha, so this is easy). Go to the System->Packages menu, look for the Avahi package and click ‘+’ next to it to install it. Once installed, in typical pfSense package fashion, you’ll need to navigate to another page (I usually just go back to the packages screen) for the menus to get updated. Afterwards, you’ll have an Avahi menu item at the bottom of your Services menu.

Avahi package configuration screen:

Avahi package configuration

Posted by billm on February 4, 2009

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