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Glims is a well known Safari Plugin which extends Safari's features by adding thumbnails, search engines and lots of other stuff. With build 32 finally IXquick - one of the most private meta search engines - was added to the list of search engines. If you like to stay with Google's results but demand more privacy, you should go with Startpage (it is like IXquick also run by Surfboard Holdings B.V.).

To add Startpage simply:

1. Download Glims
2. Check Safari's preferences for "Glims", click on "Search Engines" and
3. Add a new entry Startpage with that URL http://startpage.com/do/search?query=#query#

Similar instructions are also available from IXquick/Startpage, but only if you enabled javascript.

Have fun!

Yep, it has been canceled. By myself, intentionally. Those google ad's are gone and this blog will not be monetized anymore.

Why? Well, because your privacy matters and not everyone want's to make the internet not suck (as much) with a host's file

To be serious: Yes I don't want to feed google's/doubleclick's tracking database much longer (if you don't know what's meant: get collusion). It furthermore makes no (ad) sense to offer personalized ad's to you - the readers - while I'm blocking this stuff personally when browsing the web.

Link: https://anonymous-proxy-servers.net/blog/index.php?/archives/333-Letters-from-Iran.html

The freedom of information is a human right and it's in danger in Iran. But you may help beside projects that are also worth to donate to: You can support iranian journalists and IT professionals by forwarding access codes for anonymisation services. Enable them to circumvent internet censorship and current sanctions of monetary transactions:

Read more and take action: Letters from Iran

Currently I got a HP DL 120 in production with a HP NC107i PCIe Gigabit NIC (NetXtreme BCM5723) and FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0 installed. At first those entries in /var/log/messages were ignored because everything was running smooth and the system seemed normal and stable:

bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
bge0: link state changed to DOWN
bge0: link state changed to UP

With increasing network load there were a few unusual latency peaks and finally the NIC shut down or the system was frozen (w/out any messages of course). I couldn't figure that one out, it is a remote box w/out KVM access. After some research I found that In order to get rid of those messages you need to disable bge0 ASF driver features by adding

hw.bge.allow_asf="0"

to your /boot/loader.conf - and yes, you really need to reboot your machine since sysctl hw.bge.allow_asf="0" will fail with "sysctl: oid 'hw.bge.allow_asf' is read only". Those messages are gone now and the system seems stable as it should be.

Have fun!