How IPFire protects your Family on the Internet
Caregivers need Help If you are a caregiver for others then we know first-hand that you need help. The children or senior citizens in your life are a huge challenge…
Pi-Hole on Lightsail with 5 Million Blocked Sites
I decided to take my own advice and deploy Pi-Hole on Amazon LightSail. I made a couple of changes to the deployment that make it easier and more efficient. The…
2-Day Outage
You may have noticed Cognitive Metropolis was offline for 2 Days. Yeah, that was my fault... It was that time of the year and NetworkSolutions wanted to gouge me again…
X-Windows, LILO, and Slackware Upgrade
Upgrading Slackware Recently I made the innocent mistake of updating Slackware (to include Kernel updates) without making any allowances for LILO and the X-Window startup process. That is the third…
Build a Custom Firewall and WiFi Access Point with IPFire
What is a Custom Firewall? "Flash Routers" are another term for a custom firewall and WiFi Access Point. They are a form of custom firewall and WiFi access point that…
IPFire/AMENDMENT1 with Web Filtering Parental Controls
IPFire is the new Operating System we are testing for the AMENDMENT1 and this version is tuned for Web Filtering Parental Controls. What are Web Filtering Parental Controls? Web Filtering…
Using the IPFire URL Filter Configuration
This is a simple video walk-through of the IPFire URL Filter Configuration in the new IPFire/AMENDMENT1 downloadable image file. IPFire is a great OS that we have been experimenting with…
Slackware 15 RC2 Install and Review
Slackware 15 RC2 was released not long after we posted a quick review and installation how-to for RC1. In our experience with the installation process nothing has changed since RC1…
IPFire Build for Raspberry Pi 3B+
Since the great "supply chain disruption" of 2021 has hit computer chips, and Raspberry Pi enthusiasts in particular, we've been working on an alternative for the AMENDMENT1 in a downloadable…
Log4J shows we must all learn to understand our software
This week has led to yet another major vulnerability being discovered in major corporate software stacks, leading to a massive effort to discover, patch, and update. I remember the first…