Today I had the task of updating my backup system, for a long time I didn’t bother rolling backups because, well I just didn’t care. However I now wanted to set something up. I remembered long ago that I had … Continue reading
So, back in September I decided to purchase a new laptop, the one I decided on was the Dell XPS 13 Sputnik (9333). This is an Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 256GB mSATA based laptop which ships with Ubuntu 12.04 … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
Below is a simple script I use almost daily which I thought I would share with you all. The script fetches various URL’s then extracts all hyper links from the fetched data. It cleans them up a bit and prints … Continue reading
So I’m not sure how others run their home networks but in my case I have a single large NFS NAS. This NAS hosts both Samba and NFS shares as well as a web portal. After many years of trying … Continue reading
So after looking around this morning for a simple file system script to alert me when my ZFS pools have problems on my new file server I found a few, the problem was none worked correctly. Strangely these scripts were … Continue reading