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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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Beware the Hubris of FreeBSD
I hear a lot of very proud talk from various BSD zealots, mostly about how if you want better uptime/throughput/correctness, you should drop Linux like a rock crawling with centipedes and pick up the shinny golden nugget of FreeBSD. This will not work for me. While Linux might be “only good enough” in their eyes,…
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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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