Welcome to Michael Peer's Updates Page


Last Updated December 31, 2024

Updates:
Dec. 31, 2024:
added link to arrl ares information page under radio.

Nov. 27, 2024:
added tldr website to list of new sites.

Sept. 23, 2024:
Updated bind information on software page.

Mar. 29, 2024:
Cleaned up main page. It said "trying new things twice".

Feb. 27, 2024:
Added link to FreeBSD Rocks website on News Page.

Feb. 8, 2024:
Removed link on News Page for FreeBSD mall. It has not worked for a while.

Jan. 24, 2024:
Update some text on the main page.

Nov. 22, 2023:
Updated software page. Removed Opera browser. Added Synergy commercial software for sharing screens using one keyboard and mouse.

Nov. 3, 2023:
Updated info page with changes to DNS related entries.

Sept 8, 2023:
Google analytics is gone. I have removed the code from the main page.

July 11, 2023:
Updated Fun page with new quote.

May 31, 2023:
Updated Fun page with new quote.

Jan. 4, 2023:
Updated FreeBSD news link on News page.

Dec. 25, 2022:
Added on info page a link to overthewire.org security games.

April 16, 2022:
Removed packet8 speed test. It went away. Replaced it with Cloudflare speed test. It also shows jitter.

Oct. 20, 2021:
Added pictures and captions to fun page of arcade machine stuck on BIOS screen.

Aug. 16, 2021:
Updated witty saying on home page.

Aug. 8, 2021:
Removed line about KOCE-TV from the main page. That job was a long time ago now. They have changed lots of things at KOCE, people, the name, their transmitter, joining with KCET. Also added a link for the City of Huntington Beach. I confused the link to e-mail me and put it on the bottom of the page.

July 25, 2021:
Updated info page.

July 8, 2021:
Updated fun page.

Jun. 30, 2021:
Updated information page with Suicide Prevention information. If you need help, GET IT! Added cloudflare dns provider to the list of Public DNS Servers.

Jun. 23, 2021:
Updated news page with expanded information on Gnome and x.org links.

Jun. 18, 2021:
Fixed hostname and uptime scripts. Moved the uptime line to further down the home page.

Mar. 5, 2021:
Fixed a typo on this page. Separated off the old news from 2008 to 2015 into file and links.

Jan. 5, 2021:
Added a link to downdetector.com on info page.

Nov. 30, 2020:
Removed NLOS Cannon from games page. Discovery Channel removed the game. That was a fun game! I will miss it. Added a link to Steam gaming. I use that now for all of my gaming.

Nov. 13, 2020:
Updated the time page with host names for the ntp servers from the ntpq output that shows on the web page.

Oct. 17, 2020:
Added The Verge news site to the list of Daily News sites.

Oct. 2, 2020:
Fixed spellling error in on this page. Commented out friends link at the top of the page. It only had one link in the section.

Sept. 13, 2020:
Added the year to the June 12 date for Analog shutdown. Added comment about this web page is web 1.0. Removed Hot links section.

May 31, 2020:
Fixed the ntpq out put on the time page.

December 24, 2019:
Updated link to winscp. Be aware if you have privacy plugins this page does not work, it just keeps reloading and is non functional. -- Thanks for the update Tom

August 3, 2019:
Updated time page to add information on the output of ntpq for this host.

July 23, 2019:
Removed links to Mark Roger's website. He passed away a while back. Commented out links to deltacode.com website. It is down for maintenance.

March 20, 2019:
Added Security news sites to News page

July 24, 2018:
Replaced link for rootprompt.org with FreeBSD News site. Home page is blank.

July 8, 2018:
Updated link for analog webstats. It looks like the original site is gone but I found a mirror. Thanks to Anthony Clarke from Comparitech.net

March 28, 2018:
Updated link for proftpd from .net to .org. Thanks to Ellen Fisher.

Jan. 28, 2018:
Updated links on news page for BSD based distros.

Sep 6, 2017:
Removed link for filezilla for sftp. It does not support duo factor authentication.

Jan 2, 2017:
Added a quick list of public DNS servers on info page. Updates link on info page.

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