Recently I discovered something called Proxy ARP. I had seen this earlier in sysctl options but never understood it and why would someone need it, until one day I worked in a networking setup which used this to route traffic from the machine to the Internet. It’s an interesting technique [...]

I have a desktop machine with a Corsair SMPS which has active power factor correction. I had a Luminous 675 VA UPS before buying my new desktop machine with this SMPS. The cheapo power supplies available in India (which cost a fourth of the cost of branded ones like Corsair, [...]

If you’d like to access your Linux desktop over the network from anywhere in the world, or just want to share your computer’s resources on the LAN by giving all users accounts on your computer, you can set up a remote desktop server. It is quite easy to do so, [...]

IPFW in FreeBSD has built-in support for NATing and the configuration syntax is same as that of natd. It took me quite some time to figure out how to NAT for jails while ensuring that certain jails can have public IPs. Configure the nat on one of the IP addresses: [...]

End of October, my Nexus 4 died, apparently due to a bad battery. What happened was the phone switched off automatically (not the low battery switch off, but at some random % > 50) while using a couple of times. That ended up getting worse by corrupting something leaving the [...]