Tag: linux
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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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Full disk encryption on software RAID with GPT partitions on Gentoo
Ever since I discovered the concept of full disk encryption (which happened to be when i had long hair and no job) I had this fetish of storing and running my stuff in a secure environment (think spy sh*t). The logic/reasoning behind full disk encryption is to limit someone’s access to your data in case…
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USB-c on CentOS7 ?
A few years ago (when I started work at TSOHost) I was given a Dell Notebook to use as my workstation which came with a few gadgets including a USB-c dock. To my surprise this notebook came with Ubuntu Linux (which as you might have figured out is not my thing because i’m a Gentoo…
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Nginx – Highly Available DNS
Sometimes classic DNS will simply not do (for various reasons – you’ll find some at the end of my post) and when that happens you start looking for interesting ways to set it up. I will show you how i chose to do DNS for my personal domain. Configure 2 servers (VMs, containers or physical)…