Installing FreeNAS 9.3 Over the Network

2016-02-27 (Updated: 2016-02-27 )

I recently needed to install FreeNAS without being able to boot the installer on the target host, so had to resort to PXE and a network install. It was less straightforward than you might expect. This How-To should help anyone in a similar position.

Society’s Bullies Hide Behind Secrecy

2013-10-11

On Internet security and customer data privacy, and the attempts of governments to unravel it all for questionable gains. I look at the case of LavaBit and the FBI attempting to access every customer’s data in order to get at one.

On Securing the DNS

2009-06-02 (Updated: 2009-06-02 )

The .org TLD has been DNSSEC signed! And I got to flip the switch.

Slouching Toward The Cloud

2009-01-16 (Updated: 2009-01-16 )

Reacting to a couple of articles about the future of cloud computing, and thinking about what this might look like in the next few years.