Disable Access During Certain Hours

Recently I have needed to restrict access to the internet during certain hours.  This is very easy to achieve with MikroTIk using a few mangle and filter rules.  I currently have this configuration on a RB751 so I am using a bridge for the LAN.  I have ports 2-5...

Find Public IP via Command Line

Sometimes when setting up NAT it is useful to see if you have done your configuration correctly.  Using this command you can see what your public IP address is from a command line.   wget -qO – http://www.whatismyip.org

Change Windows 7 Login

In the Group Policy Editor. (gpedit.msc) Navigate to Computer Configuration / Windows Settings / Security Settings / Local Policies / Security Options. In the right-hand pane look for the policy: Interactive logon: Do not display last user name – Change to...

Remotely Turn on and Off OSX Screen Sharing

1.  SSH to your machine. 2.  Enable Remote Sharing (VNC) via: sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -clientopts -setvnclegacy -vnclegacy yes -clientopts -setvncpw -vncpw mypass...

Fix FreeNAS Crash 8.0.1RC2

We have had an issue with our FreeNAS server kernel panicing when doing multiple large file transfers.  We are running 64-bit machine with 24TB of available space. First you will need to set the FreeNAS filesystem to writeable so you can make the changes to system...