Monthly Archives: August 2009

Adblock with bfilter

Bfilter is a proxy server used to block advertisements. It is available under the GPL, cross platform (Windows, Linux, OSX), can be used with any browser, and can be run from a flash drive (think portable). In addition you can … Continue reading

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OpenVZ Ubuntu Templates

OpenVZ is used for Virtualization and is both light weight (minimal software on the host, guests have small footprints on the hard drive, and minimal use of RAM) and fast (native speed). In this post I will walk you through … Continue reading

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Netbook optimization

I recently purchased a netbook as I was looking for a small, lightweight machine for traveling. Overall I am happy with it and over the last two weeks have gotten it configured. I did find it is slightly under powered … Continue reading

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