1. Building a home firewall router with pfSense

    October 28, 2008 by jim

    Most people buy a wireless router like this Linksys and move on. Of course you can hack that Linksys, but sometimes you either want to play or have an old computer you can put back into service as a router/firewall/NAT box.

    Let's take a look at pfSense, a FreeBSD-based project for our firewall, and learn how to set it up.

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  2. Keys out of order on MacBook, DiskWarrior to the rescue

    October 25, 2008 by jim

    My white MacBook is from the first run of 1.83GHz machines from May of 2006. I don't depend on it for anything more than couch surfing and on-the-go computing. It has been back to Apple several times early on for issues, but once those were resolved the machine has been pretty reliable.

    Until now.

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  3. Roadrunner signal strength web page

    October 7, 2008 by jim

    I came across good information I wanted to share about checking the power levels of your Roadrunner cable modem service. If you have have problems you will want to keep reading.

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