I’m thinking about making a Battlefield 1 video on YouTube, and have collected my thoughts here. Read on. The meta topic here is Battlefield 1 and my opinions of it and the franchise. Before we get into that, let me provide some background so that you can understand where I’m coming from. As of this post, I’ve just turned 44. …
Updates to Hardware Theft and Using FreeBSD to Stream
This is just a quick update to two of my previous entries. Hardware Theft In this entry I documented how a new 1TB Samsung 960 Pro SSD was stolen from me. Specifically the actual drive was removed from the Samsung box before the box was put into a shipping box and sent to me. This likely took place at the…
Using FreeBSD to Stream to YouTube and Twitch
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Introduction In a previous entry I discussed the differences in streaming game play to YouTube vs Twitch, as well as the differences between using hardware versus software h.264 encoding. The conclusion that I came to was that I was going to continue streaming to my YouTube channel until I decide to buy and assemble another PC specifically for Twitch…
Hardware Theft
Nope, it’s not what you think. Nothing was stolen from my house, thankfully. Rather: it was stolen before it got to my house. First a little back-story… My gaming/editing rig’s operating system drive (C: in Windows-speak) is a Samsung SM951 M.2 AHCI drive. It’s 500GB in size and is quite quick in comparison to most SATA SSDs and HDDs. But…
Streaming to YouTube vs Twitch
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I’m Back(?) It’s been almost a year since my last entry which would imply that this blog isn’t that important to me. I’d say more accurately, it’s less important to me than other things in my life. Those would be things like my job, raising my dogs, taking care of my house, enjoying my new Corvette, etc. It’s not…
Blocking Spammers at the Router: IPFWMTAD
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Assuming you’ve followed my spam-fighting adventures, you’ll know that I have a fairly successful installation of Neal Horman’s spamilter running in a FreeBSD jail, and his ipfwmtad daemon running on the jail’s host. Meaning the ipfw rules being added by ipfwmtad are done on a server different from where spamilter is running. Along with all of that, you’ll recall…
FreeBSD Jails: Filesystems and FIBs
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In my Putting Jails to Work entry, I detailed how I set up the jails on joker. Part of that entry dealt with the null filesystem mounts that I had to do on joker so that the jails would have access to an NFS-mounted filesystem. It turns out that I did a lot more work than was necessary, because the…
VXLAN Configuration and Deployment
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In my VXLAN: Providing Ponies for Bad System Designers entry, I discussed using an L2 overlay technology such as VXLAN to provide virtually spanned L2 VLANs over an L3 infrastructure. In this document, I’ll show via diagrams and config snippets how to build a poorly-designed network and why it’s a problem. Then I’ll use VXLAN to build a similar…
Final Linux to FreeBSD Conversion: The Router
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This post will show up in both the FreeBSD section as well as the Network one. It’s sort of a combination of the two. I’ve been detailing my server conversions from Linux to FreeBSD on this blog, but I held off on the final device, and that’s the router. It turned out to be a hell of a challenge…
Spamilter in a Jail
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If you’ve been following my two sub-threads on this blog regarding FreeBSD jails and fighting spam, you know the status: I have a FreeBSD server called joker that has multiple jails on it. One jail is riddler, and it handles all outbound SMTP connections. But not inbound. Further, you know that I have a reasonably complex anti-spam system set…