I've been an avid user of Tor since about 2005. Retaining the right of anonymity and individual privacy grows increasingly important as different communication technologies emerge and become ubiquitous, as the recent Facebook Continue reading "Serve an anonymous shell via Tor"

Aww, Facebook. We all know your backend is a Frankenstein of legacy foundation overlaid with new-and-cool features that could probably make the

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The title of this post isn't entirely fair; scp is an awesome utility, and is probably one of my top 10 typed commands in a given day. (Sadly true, I shuffle files around a lot). Because of how often I use it, however, I do have some long standing issues that have always...

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I just spent much longer on this than I care to admit. Hopefully this post will save someone else the time, until the dudes working on the grub2 project fill their documentation out.

Trying to PXEboot a recent FreeBSD environment using grub2pxe? All the docs out there for PXE+FreeBSD from early 2000 (or worse) and using BSD's 'pxeboot' binary? Can't find anything on the 'kfreebsd' magic of grub2?

Here's the magic sauce. Note that I compressed the kernel, so it'll be much faster under tftp.

menuentry "FreeBSD 8.0 x86" {
   echo "Fetching the kernel and UFS root."
   echo "This could take a few minutes, so hang tight... "

   kfreebsd /freebsd/x86_8.0/kernel/kernel.gz Dh
   kfreebsd_loadenv /freebsd/x86_8.0/device.hints
   kfreebsd_module /freebsd/x86_8.0/mfsroot.gz type=mfs_root
   set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0c

   echo "Aaaiiight!"
   sleep 2
}

So far, so good.

Nadine and I trade each other a night a week for doing whatever. She usually uses it for getting her craft on, or having a cocktail with a pal. I use it to load up on happy hour margaritas and a movie with Michael. We've been going to the same theater eve...

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