George's Weblog

Proxy arp is a nice feature to have when you're making changes in the network and need things to keep working along the way. It's real easy to use on a Cisco or Juniper router but there are a few caveats when using the feature on pfSense. To understand… more »

Today we use systemd to manage our boot process and do nice things like reducing boot time by parallelizing operations and managing service dependencies. One area that still needs some work is /etc/fstab. We're all familiar with making entries there to… more »

I've been wanting to boost the performance of my Mac Mini for some time now. Running some benchmarks showed me that my i5 processor was certainly worthy but the main bottleneck was disk i/o. Having a 5400 RPM hard drive was the weak spot.  The first… more »

This post came about because of the hard time I had hunting down information on the topic. So I'm sharing what I've learned in the hope that others may be helped by it. I own several Garmin GPS devices and notoriously I will have one dangling from my la… more »

I spent some time today trying out Evernote. It seems to do some things well but I'm still forming my overall opinion. One of the things I wanted to do was to be able to send emails from my Entourage client into Evernote. A quick Google search revealed… more »