Curse or cure? New or recycled? Who really knows… Anyways – I have checked the actual pricing for Vista. For my taste it is too expensive and I do not see any use for it by now – or is there a good reason for an upgrade?
Author: ToeiRei
The new firewall
Sunday, February 4th I switched firewalls. The old Shorewall box with its features now belongs to the past. pfSense is my new way to go. You might ask, why I decided to do so. It’s a lesson learned in time by now. Building everything from scratch is nice, cool and gives unique features that no other product offer […]
Goodbye to my guild – and now?
The guild I was a member of is currently more dead than alive. And it was always me helping others out, no matter what I was about to do. But if it was me, needing some help nobody had time or was willing to help. – So I decided to leave. Hard times started. By now if I […]
A new line
Today I got great news: My new quarter goes online. Well – that’s the plan so far. The technical staff of the Telekom Austria was already there setting up the wires. Now I am waiting for my ISP to receive the modem. Tomorrow I will test the new line and get things done for Sunday to move the […]
Gentoo/FreeBSD
As many people are talking about FreeBSD lately, I have decided to take a closer look. So I cleaned up my notebook to get 30 GB of free space to have a nice playground for having a look at Gentoo – Gentoo on FreeBSD The first impressions after leaving the LiveCD behind was quite satisfying. The system feels […]
HP and device drivers
As I am using my HP Pavilion since July 4th, it was time to update the drivers of my wrecked Windows XP. To do so, surf the web for hours and try to get some… that’s the theory