Someone needs to start a new hardware / software manufacturer with focus on productivity because all the others are sucking at producing the next big fancy and buggy computer while watching their stocks...

Is there a statement from github what they think who did the ddos?

No and there probably won't be. Them publicly saying they were being attacked by the Chinese government would put them on some seriously questionable legal ground. They definitely went the right route by not saying anything.

Which laws would they be violating by announcing they were attacked by China?

A number of Chinese laws, or executive orders or whatever, actually might be violated.

I wonder how many crazy entrepreneurs use april days for validating ideas they had without loosing they're credibility :)

To assist with you're credibility:

"their"

And 'losing', 'April', missing 'fools' (or 'first of').

"your"

I concede that succinct satire doesn't really work on the Net.

win!

You're the man.

Amazon Dash?

m0n0 was one of the greatest open source software i've ever used. It just worked.

For a flashback go to their gallery: http://m0n0.ch/wall/gallery.php

So awesome!

Is there a List out there with the best hardware-producing companies... I mean, what if i have the layout for a beagleboard 5.0 and want to order 2k of them...

I find it pretty hard to get an overview over hardware factories...

We use it with about 30 offices, all connected via openvpn. 180GB transfer every day. No problem for months.... Hell of a software!

Curious why you chose OpenVPN for your site-to-site links. I use it extensively for mobile VPN users, but for an "infrastructure" VPN, I use IPsec, which I find to be a much superior solution for that use case than OpenVPN.

Not the OP, but I've found OpenVPN easier to configure, and performance to be adequate. In what ways have you found IPsec to be superior?

Well the #1 thing for me is that the majority of IPsec functions are in the kernel and don't require that a userland daemon be running (which OpenVPN requires). Beyond that, I've just found that, while a bit more arduous to configure initially, performance is far superior and stability is better than OpenVPN.

Beyond that, pretty much every router out there supports IPsec, so if you're needing to integrate with other non-pfsense hardware, IPSec is often your only option.

Maybe it's just one of those "feelings" but i think it's way more flexible... :)

Chris Buechler the main developer is also hands down one of the most approachable and friendly people I've ever met.

It's on FreeBSD 10.1 now. Nice.

PfSense and FreeNAS have really made me fall in love with FreeBSD all over again. It was my first foray into the ~*nix world, so lots of fond memories.

Great device, great idea! Please allow orders from within the EU... That would be awesome!

Go and rent a amazon or linode machine for an hour. Then use netcat and dd for a raw tcp speedtest.

I'll give this a try. Still hoping for a neutral third-party test though, since I will find less speed than claimed from my ISP. That means I still have a situation where they say they are delivering gigabit and I say my tests show differently.