Category Computing

Squid Proxy: Make Outgoing Headers Anonymous

By default, Squid sends HTTP headers on every request that can give away information about your internal network. Here’s an example of these headers:

That’s three pieces of information you may not want to give away: The host name…

CSS: Make an element unselectable

Apparently, it’s necessary to use separate CSS properties for each browser.

Configure VLANs on FreeBSD

If you have a switch, access point or other piece of network hardware that supports 802.1q VLAN tagging, and you’d like to your FreeBSD system to recognize them, it’s a pretty straight-forward configuration.  I’ll use examples from my network to…

FreeBSD – Colorize Your Console

The FreeBSD console is colorless by default – but most terminals and SSH clients these days support color.  The benefits of colorizing your console should be pretty obvious.  It makes your life a little easier – you don’t have to…

What’s Your Cloud Backup Strategy?

I wanted to follow up a previous post with some additional comments.  This past week, a popular social bookmarking service called Ma.gnolia went down and lost all of their users’ data.  Their users were understandably angry and frustrated.  Citizen Garden…