I recently needed to set up a new reverse proxy as an alternative to pound, and for no particularly good reason chose Perlbal. The documentation is fairly good, but I didn’t find many (good) examples of working configurations. So I thought I’d include my very simple conf. LOAD vhosts # Management service via telnet CREATE [...]

Firefox by default does not use your proxy when making DNS requests. This can lead to a bit of confusion if your internal DNS servers are different from your public servers, thankfully there’s a simple fix: Navigate to: about:config Locate network.proxy.socks_remote_dns and set the value to true

Maybe this will help someone else with this laptop: If the USB3.0 ports randomly stop working you just need to update the drivers. You can grab them from Station Drivers Fn+1 Toggles the fan speed between 100% and normal

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Just added a couple of quick photos to the k100d gallery. Really wish I could have speant longer watching the surfers near The Spit Camera is Pentax K100D 6MP with a Sigma 70-300 / Sigma 28-70 F2.8 .thumbnail { float: left; width: 140px; height: 140px; padding: 5px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; font-size: 0.8em; } [...]

My respect for the N800 just went up, the whole procedure must have taken 15-20 seconds. Nokia-N800-50-2:~# wget -sh: wget: not found Nokia-N800-50-2:~# curl -sh: curl: not found Nokia-N800-50-2:~# apt-get install wget [snip apt downloading and install wget] Nokia-N800-50-2:~# wget wget: missing URL Usage: wget [OPTION]… [URL]… Try `wget –help’ for more options. Nokia-N800-50-2:~#