Category: Me
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Camping session – June 2021
As we all know 2020 and first part of 2021 sucked thanks to COVID-19 however with the easing of the restrictions me and the boss (wife) figured we should be okay to go camping for a few days. I’ll mention Badgells Camping https://badgellswoodcamping.co.uk, Ightham Mote and Diggerland and let the pictures do the talking 🙂
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My take on openSUSE
Many many years ago (20 ish) I was playing with all sorts of Linux distributions (peanut, slackware, mandrake, redhat, gentoo, suse and more) and back then I came up with my top 3 preferred Linux distros. My original top 3 looked like this: 1) Slackware; 2) RedHat; 3) Debian; because at that time in terms…
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Gentoo on ZFS
… or any other recent enough version of Linux … Everyone seems to be praising ZFS for its advanced features and its reliability and all sorts of other crap and they’re right to do that. The only thing I hate about it is its stupid license which is not GPL compatible which is complicating things…
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Gentoo on BTRFS
… or any other recent enough Linux distro for that matter… Been reading a bit about BTRFS and how it’s one of the most advanced file systems out there and how it’s been in development for quite some time and yet it’s still not production ready (some say it is, others say it is not,…
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Project – Pickles 2020
This year was a “wonderful” one thanks to Coronavirus (killing tens of thousands of people) and its side effects (lockdown, economy tumbling down, crops not being harvested in time, prices going up for some essentials, people loosing jobs, etc) the preper in me wanted to make sure we get through this winter as healthy as…
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MDADM caching
At the request of a friend I’m doing a piece on mdadm (software raid) with caching. Long story short, Raid 4 / 5 / 6 allows using a disk for caching purposes (the disk can be a software raid) To create the array one would run the mdadm command like so: mdadm –create /dev/md0 –level=5…
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nscd on CentOS7 is being stupid
Today, while “playing” with my servers to get them to use LDAP for authentication, I realized that nscd on CentOS7 (possibly on other Linux distros as well) is being a bit stupid. Normally to get your Linux system to authenticate against LDAP you’d need to adjust quite a few config files (i.e. /etc/openldap/ldap.conf, stuff in…
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Annoying Let’s Encrypt
Let’s Encrypt (aka https://letsencrypt.org/) is a nice way to NOT spend money on SSL certificates for your websites (especially when you’re operating personal sites) BUT at same time it is fairly annoying when you have a setup that’s a bit different than standard ones. In my particular case, I’m running my site on multiple servers…
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Camping session – August 2020
Since the July camping session was too short me and the boss (wife) decided to go camping again but this time we decided to go “wild camping” and take only the bare minimum (turns out the bare minimum was exactly what we took with us last time minus the plush unicorn and some pillows) Now,…
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Camping session – July 2020
A few weeks ago me and the boss (wife) were talking about going out and about (considering we’ve been under lockdown thanks to COVID-19) … one thing led to another and we’re suddenly booking a couple of days at Lepe Beach Campsite. Come July 14th we’re packing a ton of stuff wondering if it would…