This one was an easy fix, but that the issue exists at all is a fragility unique to FreeNAS that does not exist if you only use FreeBSD:

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/911053-freenas-database-corrupt

@PackMatt73 said:

@thanksajdotcom GREAT to hear! I'll keep you in the loop if there is more stuff like that

Awesome, thanks!

They run with surprisingly old CPU's

http://ark.intel.com/products/40201/Intel-Xeon-Processor-L5520-8M-Cache-2_26-GHz-5_86-GTs-Intel-QPI

Great quote from the article: A waterproof safe dropped into the deepest part of the ocean is not as 'secure' as it is useless

@scottalanmiller said:

We lead with geo-specific deny rules to block regions before allowing ports.

And in that case it makes sense. You're blocking all traffic from China or Russia, for example. Then you allow the ports you want open but those countries are blocked, and maybe every other country is fine (hopefully you haven't blocked Spain... ;)), and then you deny the rest. That also makes logistical sense. I don't disagree with @thecreativeone91. It all comes down to what your objective is and then determining the best way to approach it.

I am a big believe in BASH. It's still my go to tool for most scripting in UNIX. It is everywhere, which makes a big difference. People used to use Perl because it was so ubiquitous. But on current systems it is Python that I see more commonly. Node.js, Ruby and Go are out there a lot too. The one thing that you can almost always count on is BASH. It's simple, it's standard and it is really fast to do simple things.

@scottalanmiller said:

The real issue is that likely very few people have seen that unit to know what the settings look like.

Yeah, I know. The management UI is about what you'd expect from a consumer-grade device. It's pretty and functional, but very basic as to what it can do.

Handoff - moving stuff between OSX and iOS iCloud Drive Extensions - Widgets "reformed" Markup - for annotating images and PDFs AirDrop - exchange files with iOS easily The rest is pretty weak

I agree, Cinnamon would have been the obvious choice. But that other article talks about that city in Germany choosing MATE too. I wonder what the impetus was for that.

Looks pretty interesting, will have to try that out. Session sharing can be super useful for UNIX.

This is really neat, here's my favorite for Putty-people: https://puttytray.goeswhere.com/

If only they had known where these technologies would go and who some of these people would wind up becoming!

@garak0410 said:

@scottalanmiller I love these retro finds...good stuff.

I watch several of these a day now 🙂