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Patching forked-daapd So It Actually Works
I’ve been struggling with a pair of issues with forked-daapd recently. I’ve managed to fix one of them for the time being. In particular, with recent versions of iTunes forked-daapd was dropping out after about 5 minutes of audio. I found the issue in the bug tracker on github, and found that some people has…
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Open Letter To Canadian Senators
Dear Senators, I’m writing to you about Bill C-10, the Omnibus Crime Bill, hoping to convince you to reject it. Crime has been falling for years in Canada. Mandatory minimum sentences have been a colossal failure south of the border. In a period of deficit spending, do we really need a piece of boondoggle legislation? The crime rate…
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VDSL + MLPPP + FreeBSD + Xen = Awesome
I signed up for the new 25Mbps VDSL services that are becoming available through TekSavvy, now that Bell has to provide speed matching profiles to other providers instead of just the staid old 5Mbps profiles they used to offer. The techs were done by the time I got home, but one of them was nice…
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IPv6 Part 9: Configuring A Domain For IPv6 With BIND
Welcome to part nine of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover how to configure the ISC BIND daemon to serve an authoritative DNS domain over IPv6. The host is running FreeBSD 8.2, but this should apply equally well to any system running the ISC named daemon. Just having connectivity over IPv6…
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IPv6 Part 8: Configuring DNS And DHCPv6 On An IPv6 Network
Welcome to part eight of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover how to configure the ISC BIND and DHCP daemons to support dynamic DNS updates from DHCP in DNS on your LAN. The router is running FreeBSD 8.2, but this should apply equally well to any system running the ISC named…