Anthony Wang anthony-wang

pfSense Simple Home Configuration - 2.4.3 / 2.4.4

Starting from Scratch

This is my personal guide for installing pfSense. Hope you find it useful. I made these notes to capture the details of my "install from scratch" to ensure I didn't miss important details. Also, I'm trying build my network with discrete "disposable" components that make the system mutable and less rigid. It does not cover installing any packages like Squid or Suricata as that's way beyond the scope of a basic, functional install.

I migrated from an environment that was at various times running Tomato Toastman 1.28 or Asuswrt-Merlin on Netgear and ASUS routers across four "access points" (one always acting as the firewall/gateway, the rest as APs). It was OK pre-gigabit, but had roaming problems, and I was using large Wifi routers with most of the features disabled. Also, I found that I could easily swamp the network and tank VOIP and Wifi Calling without even trying. The only fix was to throttle everything by using Bandwidth Limit

This gist describes how to add Anaconda Prompt to the Windows right click context menu. This is because at some point, Anaconda no longer adds itself to the PATH after installation.

Run regedit.exe
Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT > Directory > Background > shell
Add a key named AnacondaPrompt and set its value to "Anaconda Prompt Here" (or anything you'd like it to appear as in the right click context menu)
Add a key under this key, called command, and set its value to cmd.exe /K C:\Anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat (may have to change the activate.bat file to whereever Anaconda is installed)

Increasing the amount of inotify watchers

If you are not interested in the technical details and only want to get Listen to work:

If you are running Debian, RedHat, or another similar Linux distribution, run the following in a terminal:

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p

Getting Started

Do yourself a favor and login as root to save yourself some time and headaches:

$ sudo su -

Install unattended-upgrades:

Scalebar with background

To change the backgroundcolor, adjust the scalebgcolor variable to use the desired color. Add the following code to your preamble:

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[usenames, dvipsnames]{color}
\definecolor{scalebgcolor}{rgb}{0.08,0.52,0.80}

Fine-tuning Ubuntu 16.04 on x240

Enabling middleclick scrolling in Ubuntu for Lenovo clickpads

With ubuntu 15.10, full clickpad support is provided by xserver-xorg-input-libinput. No further configuration needed. Tested with a T440s. (According to this)

Fine-tuning Ubuntu 14.04 on x240

EMOJI CHEAT SHEET

Emoji emoticons listed on this page are supported on Campfire, GitHub, Basecamp, Redbooth, Trac, Flowdock, Sprint.ly, Kandan, Textbox.io, Kippt, Redmine, JabbR, Trello, Hall, plug.dj, Qiita, Zendesk, Ruby China, Grove, Idobata, NodeBB Forums, Slack, Streamup, OrganisedMinds, Hackpad, Cryptbin, Kato, Reportedly, Cheerful Ghost, IRCCloud, Dashcube, MyVideoGameList, Subrosa, Sococo, Quip, And Bang, Bonusly, Discourse, Ello, and Twemoji Awesome. However some of the emoji codes are not super easy to remember, so here is a little cheat sheet. ✈ Got flash enabled? Click the emoji code and it will be copied to your clipboard.

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	# Use this to block Spotify ad servers
	# sources:
	# https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/4kn6rq/comprehensive_guide_to_blocking_ads_on_spotify/
	# https://gist.github.com/teomaragakis/cb187d880c9a3ca2c8a2
	# https://gist.github.com/Shujito/b7a8f8f971b22f49b4313d7d3e8e6931
	# https://gist.github.com/rifkyekayama/f7c43e470f23878b20416e68f73829dc
	# https://gist.github.com/shokoylele/8f4160a102480471cb946fbd800bc86a
	############## Begin manual list

	# 127.0.0.1 spclient.wg.spotify.com # might block the entire Spotify app from working too

	##################################################################################
	# ELIMINATE SPOTIFY ADS (VERSION 1.2 - 8.5) - ABANDONED FOR NOW #
	##################################################################################
	#
	# NOTE: SOMETIMES ONLY ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN AD WHILE USING APP VERSION 7.5-7.9?-8.x.
	# USING AN OFFICIAL OLDER VERSION SOLVES THIS. TEST IT (APKMIRROR). THIS WILL NOT
	# OCCUR USING CHROMECAST / GOOGLE HOME.
	#
	# COULD NOT SOLVE THE AUDIO AD INRO/OUTRO IN THE APP.
	# SUGGESTIONS? WRITE A COMMENT BELOW.

	#! /usr/bin/env ruby

	# NOTE: Requires Ruby 2.1 or greater.

	# This script can be used to parse and dump the information from
	# the 'html/contact_info.htm' file in a Facebook user data ZIP download.
	#
	# It prints all cell phone call + SMS message + MMS records, plus a summary of each.
	#
	# It also dumps all of the records into CSV files inside a 'CSV' folder, that is created