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Security is no longer just an add-on, as it once was, and modern operating systems tend to be increasingly complex. We must not only be concerned about the security of our operating systems but also the security of the applications we use, such as a web browser, which is itself a complex system. But web browsers aren't the only applications primarily used to connect to Internet: an instant…
After a hard day, you get home, turn on the TV, open Netflix, and watch a movie. However, you're an avarage IT nerd who needs to work a lot harder with your computer (right?), so you come to the conclusion that there's this amazing project called Jellyfin that lets you watch movies and TV shows (and even stream music!), but you realize you're not the only user consuming instance: your little…
When AppJail , a BSD-3 licensed open source framework entirely written in sh(1) and C to create isolated, portable and easy to deploy environments using FreeBSD jails that behave like an application, was created, my intention was to test ports so as not to mess up my main environment. Today AppJail is more than just a script for testing ports, it is highly flexible and has some very useful…
Smart Timeouts es una feature de Overlord bastante simple, pero que me ha demostrado ser eficaz. Aunque la arquitectura de Overlord, la cual es un árbol encadenado (inspirado de alguna manera por DNS), es simple pero escala muy bien, eso trae el inconveniente de que un fallo en la cadena C puede ralentizar la cadena B y A . Al menos el cliente verá un error, pero no sin esperar unos segundos…
Managing our development projects is very easy nowadays, there are so many services to choose from, some with less or more features, but there is an open source project, self-hosted, with so many features that can be installed in a few minutes and the best part is that we can install it on FreeBSD. The project is called Gitea, which is a software for hosting our projects using Git. It has other…
In any development project, you usually have to worry about many components: databases, dependencies, configurations, network settings and so on. Things can get too complicated when you need to transfer your project to another colleague or, even worse, transfer the project to a production environment, and very bad things can happen… Those problems has been solved by some useful tools, such as…