Category: Me
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Playing with ZFS on Linux
ZFS is one of the most advanced local filesystems you could store your data on. For more details feel free to check the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS An online search for “install ZFS on centos 7” got me a few results … I selected this one: https://linuxhint.com/install-zfs-centos7/ which seems to be good enough For Gentoo things…
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IT workshop @ Home – Raspberry Pi 4 B
After our last visit to Paul & Michael, during which the children got to play games and do some “coding” in “Scratch” we noticed how excited they were about doing stuff at the computer (I guess they realized the computer universe is huge) and while talking about this with Paul & Michael, my mind got…
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Patching for zombieload and friends on Linux – Dell Precision 5530
If you’re like me and like Linux enough to install it on hardware which is sold as a Windows running device then you’ll probably want to keep reading. During the last 1 – 2 years or so we started seeing new vectors of attack being discovered / exploited which unfortunately come from cutting corners when…
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MySQL/MariaDB replication
Sometimes you find yourself needing some form of high availability or fail over for your application that uses a MySQL/MariaDB backend. If you’re like me you’ll probably like the idea of doing this the Master – Master way which, by the way, is not the recommended way BUT works quite well. Here’s what needs doing:…
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Harvest – Project grow your own veg
A while ago I wrote a post on my blog about growing your own veg and why. Well Autumn is here and we started harvesting 🙂 Because we planted a ton of tomatoes and because we used various types of seeds and because we planted the seeds in batches we’re now harvesting various types of…
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IT Workshop @ home
A few weeks ago me and my boss (wife) had this crazy idea … we have some space in the attic which we’re not really using so … why not set it up like a small classroom ? (to make it look formal-ish) and get the children to do some IT stuff with us. Both…
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Mental health …
Got a phone call recently from an old friend of mine who was letting me know his brother was going to start work in London soon and wanted me to be there for him in case he needed a hand with anything (like walk him through how stuff works here in the UK, etc). Was…
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Paris … because why not ?
A while ago me and my boss (wife) had this wonderful idea of visiting Paris (the French one) so we started planning, looking for offers, looking for stuff to do once we got there etc etc. Stage1 – find train tickets (because faster than getting a flight from London to Paris) The boss did all…
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Sofia,BG
Let’s assume you want / need / have to go somewhere for any particular reason – be that work, relaxation or just to be away from what you know and let’s also assume that somewhere should be in Europe … then why not Sofia in Bulgaria? In my case this is some of what i…
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Solar powered – ver 0.1 alpha
There are various reasons for switching to renewable energy sources and it’s not too hard to find one to justify doing this. In my particular case it’s about being as friendly as i can with the environment i live in and as autonomous as i can (i do have a “fetish” for the idea of…