Category: commuting
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Build OpenZFS on Ubuntu 16.04 from git
I have to import a zpool from one Ubuntu workstation with recent features to a new Ubuntu workstation. The new workstation being a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 Server install. It only has ubuntu-mate-desktop and build-essentials installed. Below is an aggregation of some of the apt install commands I preformed to get things going: apt install dkms […]
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Fixing file-system corruption (freedompenguin.com)
Here I start a series of posts talking about my home workstation getting file system corruption.
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Emulating Web Browsers
Here’s a tedious task for you to consider. When you log-in to your favorite website these days, you’re creating a JSON document and posting it to the service you’re logging into. Long gone are the days when you just posted simple form parameters from a whole post. I work on an emulation platform: one of […]
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Adding a bicycle bell
The bike bell I had was way to narrow for the pipe on my bike. So luckily I had a small scrap of pipe that I sanded down and pressed into hole of the larger pipe. This was my Hack Your World moment. I drilled a hole in the handle of the furniture clamp and […]
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Ubuntu 15.10 and ZFS
Some quick thots on doing this for my workstation: I have six 2TB drives in raid 10 zfs pool, and they would not import to 15.10 because 15.10 ships with (or tries to) zfs 0.6.4.2 I decided on /boot, swap, /, mdadm partitions for OS install needed to do 15.10 server cmdline install for mdadm […]
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Skimming Files Before You Grep Them – Freedom Penguin
Here are a few of my file searching strategies . http://freedompenguin.com/articles/how-to/skimming-files-before-you-grep-them/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=google_plus&utm_source=socialnetwork
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Network Cards Suck
At least, on consumer motherboards. I have a 4ghz Haswell on a Asus z97 mobo. Wanted to reboot it to check on fan profiles. Realized it was not letting me into uefi BIOS and when it would get there my mouse was all locked up. Now I’m in a situation where I need to make […]
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