Every proper geek is faithful to his text editor, thus the great battles between vi and Emacs users. Working with UNIX servers taught me how to use VIM. I came across MacVim project, Cocoa front-end to the powerful VIM editor that integrates with the OS X desktop. I can now use the same editor, and shortcuts, on all the operating systems that I use! Native Cocoa interface Native OS X shortcuts cmd-o, cmd-s, etc Non-intrusive Safari like tabs What else could you possibly want?

Juniper Networks was started in 1996 with the goal of taking over the high-performance networking world. Ten years later Juniper Networks sidestepped all the competition and took the number two spot right behind Cisco. They hold 21.8% of service provider, 29% of high-end enterprise routing, and 38.2% of core and edge routing markets! While looking to read-up on the products and services being offered by Juniper Networks you notice that the number of resources is very limited, at least when compared to Cisco.

Juniper Networks was started in 1996 with the goal of taking over the high-performance networking world. Ten years later Juniper Networks sidestepped all the competition and took the number two spot right behind Cisco. They hold 21.8% of service provider, 29% of high-end enterprise routing, and 38.2% of core and edge routing markets! While looking to read-up on the products and services being offered by Juniper Networks you notice that the number of resources is very limited, at least when compared to Cisco.

Last night I have been going through my books researching various distributed denial of service mitigation strategies. While browsing the index of Guide to Firewalls and Network Security: Intrusion Detection and VPNs by Greg Holden the following grabbed my attention I have purchased this book for my Network Security class from last semester. There is no mention of Cisco, Juniper, nor CheckPoint. It is scary to think that this book is used to teach people about firewalls and security.

Couple of weeks ago I called my Internet Service Provider to discuss various packages that would allow me to host my own servers. After reviewing the offered packages I have decided to upgrade from a residential to a business line. Business packages come with five static IP addresses, 30 Mbps downstream, 5 Mbps upstream, and the freedom to host your own services. Now that NANOG is finished I am getting around to putting up the servers and migrating web and mail services to my network.

The LiveCD does not allow the user to customize what packages to install, similar to what Solaris 10 and other server operating system do. There is no documented way of removing large package sets like Gnome and Xorg. For a headless server setup you can remove unnecessary desktop applications with the following command: pkg uninstall -vr \`pkg list | egrep '(aac|acc|atheros|audio|avahi|compiz|evolution|firefox|flac|gamin|gnome|ipp|ipw|iwi|iwk|musicbrainz|ogg|pkg-gui|print|thunderbird|tnetd|wlan|wlan|wpa|wpi|xcursor|xorg|xscreensaver)' | awk '{print $1}'\`

The LiveCD does not allow the user to customize what packages to install, similar to what Solaris 10 and other server operating system do. There is no documented way of removing large package sets like Gnome and Xorg. For a headless server setup you can remove unnecessary desktop applications with the following command: pkg uninstall -vr \`pkg list | egrep '(aac|acc|atheros|audio|avahi|compiz|evolution|firefox|flac|gamin|gnome|ipp|ipw|iwi|iwk|musicbrainz|ogg|pkg-gui|print|thunderbird|tnetd|wlan|wlan|wpa|wpi|xcursor|xorg|xscreensaver)' | awk '{print $1}'\`

The first official binary distribution based on OpenSolaris was released yesterday! It comes on a single LiveCD that lets you check out all the much talked about features before installing. Some of the highlights are the new IPS package manager, DTrace, Service Management Facility, XEN, and the new ZFS filesystem! I have been looking forward to experimenting with Zones and ZFS (after being very disappointed with the current ZFS implementation on FreeBSD) more.

The first official binary distribution based on OpenSolaris was released yesterday! It comes on a single LiveCD that lets you check out all the much talked about features before installing. Some of the highlights are the new IPS package manager, DTrace, Service Management Facility, XEN, and the new ZFS filesystem! I have been looking forward to experimenting with Zones and ZFS (after being very disappointed with the current ZFS implementation on FreeBSD) more.

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