Archive for September, 2008

Cleaning up the system »

I’ve had the same home directory for a long time, migrating it and it’s data from one machine to another for years.  In the process I’ve accumulated a lot of cruft that ballooned my home directory to a whopping 73.5GB of disk space.  This was becoming a pain to manage, so I decided to freshen [...]

I finally figured it out… »

A long while back I acquired an Apple XServe for use in my home network.  It was used, and definitely not new (sadly, not an Intel XServe), but still quite the powerful (and loud) machine!  At the behest of my buddy I set it up as my gateway, providing VPN termination, firewall,DNS, nat, dhcp and [...]