Picture the following — you are a child going to bed on a normal night. At midnight, buff men in black suits burst into your bedroom. They take you away from home with no time to even say goodbye to your parents, put you in a black Ford Explorer, and tell you that you’re going…
ZFS is possibly one of the best filesystems out there. Yet still, Linux is only recently getting good support for it. The real ZFS is available on UNIX, like Solaris, and for this article, FreeBSD. Because Solaris has gone under recently, FreeBSD is undoubtedly the best OS for ZFS. However, if you’re new to FreeBSD…
The world of open source licensing is tough, and it can make the difference between who can use your project as well as whether your code can be stolen. Some licenses embody the principles of Open Source, where people can use your code for whatever they see fit, even if their own code is not…
This whole Jack Teixeira documents situation has a lot of weird information around it. The press entirely jumped on someone who was basically a kid. What’s more, in seemingly none of the articles do they actually show the Jack Teixeira documents for download. A lot of critical thinkers, especially ones who understand computers, have been…
Something that has been floating around the Minecraft community for a while, with little documentation is Quadspinner Gaea. While Gaea gets a lot of documentation for game development, there’s not a lot out there to help with Minecraft, which is something that I believe could be fixed. Gaea is a very complex engine, but I…
We are starting a new series of tutorials, this time pertaining to minimalism and making your computer systems look pretty. We have created a beautiful desktop background that changes depending on the time, which is available here: https://infotoast.org/homepage/. Try refreshing and you can see that it shows a different image each time. Our background cycles…
There has recently been some controversy with the r/Minecraft subreddit, but it generally reflects on Reddit and moderation on the entire internet. I won’t go into much detail, but here is a link to the explanation if you haven’t heard about what happened already on PhoenixSC’s YouTube Video. This is not the first time something…
OpenTerrainGenerator is one of the oldest, and most customizable world generation mods of all time. Many know that it is a fork of TerrainControl, but most don’t know that it TC itself is a fork of PhoenixTerrainMod, which is a fork of BiomeTerrain Mod, all the way back in Minecraft Alpha. This tutorial will teach…
Being born and raised in Louisiana, and then moving to Boston as an adult, I’ve seen the best, and worst of both worlds. I’ve learned that the freezing cold is nowhere near as bad as the scorching heat. Many times, people ask me if I root for the Patriots or the Saints. Unsurprisingly, I’m loyal…
The technology known as the “PiHole” has become quite ubiquitous over recent years. The PiHole allows you to create a DNS server that stops tracking entirely, across your entire network. However, what happens when you need to leave home. What happens when you go to work or go to a local coffee shop? Now, you’re…
