How to Install and Configure a TeamSpeak Server With a Different Voice Port
(20250610) – The steps described in this post were amended to address changes in recent versions of software — iceflatline) TeamSpeak is a voice communication tool for online gaming, education and training, internal business communication, and similar use cases. This post will describe how to install TeamSpeak server on the Windows operating system, configure it […] Read More →
Run a Windows Application as a Service with srvany
Occasionally the need arises for running an application in Windows as a service. This allows the application to run at boot time without the need for a user to be logged into the system in order for the application to start and operate. While built-in mechanisms such as Task Scheduler exist to help facilitate this, […] Read More →
Changing Code Syntax Highlighters
Most of the posts I author here contain code examples. To highlight these code examples I’ve been using the wordpress plugin SyntaxHighlighter Evolved. For the most part this plugin has served me, and I hope you, well. There are a few quirks, however, that continue to annoy me about this plugin. Chief among those quirks […] Read More →
How to Install and Configure MRTG on FreeBSD
In a previous post I described how to install and configure Tobi Oetiker’s MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) on a Ubuntu server. In this post I will describe how to install and configure it on FreeBSD. Once configured, you’ll be able to use MRTG to monitor the traffic in and out of your network using […] Read More →
Using Tarsnap in FreeBSD to Improve My Offsite Backups
In a recent post I described how I improved the reliability of my file system backups by using the data replication capabilities inherent in the FreeBSD Zettabyte File System (ZFS). In this post I will explore Tarsnap, another tool I recently started to use to perform secure offsite backups of my most important files. The […] Read More →