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Tue Dec 29 10:21:24 EST 2015
Went to bed after midnight. Woke up a couple of times, but got up before ten feeling rested.
We ended up getting more accumulated ice/slush than I thought. It's forty-two degrees now, and most of it is melting. We might get a little snow today or tomorrow.
Goals:
- Laundry
No.
- Grocery
No.
- God damn ipfw (or chuck it and switch to pf)
Done!
I think I got it.
The documentation really is poor (including the Handbook), and many of the examples floating around on the internet are misleading and in some cases dangerous.
I still feel like ipfw _should_ be the best solution on FreeBSD, being actively developed and FreeBSD native. But the documentation is so poor that I can't recommend it. pf may be the best option for most people, despite its inferiority to OpenBSD pf.
- Walk
Done.
After one o'clock, I took a long walk --- nearly an hour.
Quite wet out with melting slush. Occasional misty rain, but the main thing was that my feet got soaked.
Saw a ton of birds in the woods behind Huntley. Robin, robins, robin, some little brown jobs, a cardinal, and a couple of hairy woodpeckers.
The pond in Berkley Park isn't frozen at all, but no ducks today.
The sky is a dirty white-gray watercolor.
- Install some bandwidth monitoring tool on blinky
Done.
vnstat
A sample configuration file has been installed in /usr/local/etc/
Please add your default network interface in the 'Interface' line there
before starting vnstat service.
You can add any number of additional interfaces either in
vnstat_additional_ifaces variable in /etc/rc.conf, or with this command:
su -m vnstat -c "/usr/local/bin/vnstat --create --iface <your interface>"
and restart vnstat service:
service vnstat restart
For more information about vnStat use "man vnstat" or visit:
http://humdi.net/vnstat/
Hmm. Looks like I'm coming up on a year of diary keeping. I'll have to go back and review my entries.
I've been reading a manga called Kuro over the last couple of days. One of those works that employs quiet, patient pacing and a tone of gentle, slightly melancholy irony, which I've noticed really only in some anime/manga. It's also probably easier to pull off on the page than the screen, since the reader is more in control of the pace.
http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/kuro-r11140
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