I recently ran into a situation where I needed to run a test with a Québec City IP address. I checked every well-known VPN provider for their server lists, but none had servers specifically in Québec City. After additional research, I found it’s possible to create an Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway in Canada East and have the VM use the linked VNet as a NIC.

Need to create a file with specific size and random content? One or the other is fine, but both can be problematic. I’m lookin’ at you, Windows.

Communication is expanding rapidly in this day and age. We have texting, e-mail, Slack, Discord, Skype, FaceTime, Facebook Messenger, LINE, and the list goes on. Geeks (and, by association, the FOSS community) tend to embrace counterculture, which is why they thoroughly adopt IRC.

Last time I tried something like this, I was inspired by Lee Hutchinson’s web server guide and mail server guide. Therefore, I set out setting up a web and mail server on a home PC to learn more about Internet services, as he suggested.