New Plymouth splash screen for Dell XPS 13 (Sputnik) users
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I’ve taken five minutes to generate a new splash screen for my new XPS 13 laptop, it’s a silhouette of the famed Russian Sputnik satellite: Download here
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Windows 7 SP1 and Samba
After successfully installing Windows 7 SP1 on my wife’s new workstation I noticed right away that the system was no longer able to access my Samba NAS. After searching around for a while and trying various tips, such as making … Continue reading
Unetbootin + Windows install
So… Unforantly for me, I had to reinstall Windows 7 on my wife’s work station. Personally I can’t stand Microsoft OS’s so this was quite the chore. To make things easier I decided to just install via USB disk (Who … Continue reading
A cheap ZFS file server build
So the last month or so I’ve been working on replacing my aging FreeBSD 7.4 RELENG server, running the stable, but some what scary GEOM RAID5 hack (vintage 2008). The system was a total hack, running in an old mid-tower … Continue reading
ZPcheck version 1.4 released
Hi All, Today I’m releasing ZPcheck version 1.4, which is the initial public release. It’s a simple tool to regularly check and report on ZFS pools. Included in the reports generated by ZPcheck are smartd logging (if available) from your … Continue reading