It is no secret that FreeNAS is a popular NAS solution used by many. The latest FreeNAS-11.2-U2.1 (Build Date: Feb 27, 2019) showed up with several improvements and fixes. Eager to, once again, deploy a FreeNAS solution in my lab, I decided to ditch RockStor and go to FreeNAS even though the hardware at hand […]
I came across few hosts in my pfsense firewall logs hammering my home webserver through Tor. While I understand Tor’s network value, I do not want middle nodes or exit nodes hitting my home webserver for any reasons; I use it for basically media streaming. So, I decided to “block” T0r and pfBlockerNG comes once […]
Update Manager seems to be a welcome addition not just for my Linux Lite installs. A few hundred users do prefer the stripped down version I made available for Linux Lite 3.x Series. Well, Linux Lite 4.x is out and I have’t posted in the blog for a little while (work and life is keeping […]
Thunar, the default Xfce file manager, doesn’t support split view. But thanks to Xfce user Román who decided to take this issue into his own hands, and to our good fellows from webupd8.org, we have the option to get a functional package in our system. In a blog post, user Rob Smart asked if it […]
Linux Lite’s heavily customized Whisker menu wouldn’t be such a problem if proper measures had been put in place during its development; or better said, while it got put together. It is understandable (from Linux Lite’s target audience perspective) to have a highly customized menu for its user base. What I fail to understand are […]
