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Bose SoundLink on-ear headphones battery replacement
My 71 TiB ZFS NAS after 10 years and zero drive failures
The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC
AI is critically important but not for you
How to run victron veconfigure on a mac
Tunneling Elixir cluster network traffic over Wireguard
IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor
My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate
I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated
Benchmarking cheap SSDs for fun, no profit (be warned)
How to setup a local or private Ubuntu Mirror
I resurrected my Dutch movie review site from 2003
An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor
Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface
A practical understanding of lead acid batteries
ZFS RAIDZ expansion is awesome but has a small caveat
Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor
Understanding the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Autoinstaller
A 12.48 inch (1304x984) three-color e-paper display by Waveshare
Most Technical debt is just bullshit
This blog is now running on solar power
Don't be afraid of RAID
What home NAS builders should understand about silent data corruption
Scrub your NAS hard drives regularly if you care about your data
Benchmarking storage with Fio and generating charts of the results
My home network setup based on managed switches and VLANs
The impact of the MDADM bitmap on RAID performance
Cryptocurrencies are detrimental to society
Understanding Storage Performance - IOPS and Latency
Difference of behavior in SATA Solid State Drives
Benchmarking a 1.44 MB floppy drive
Fio-plot: creating nice charts from FIO storage benchmark data
My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory
My Ceph test cluster based on Raspberry Pi's and HP MicroServers
Compiling Ceph on the Raspberry Pi 3B+ (armhf) using Clang/LLVM
Understanding Ceph: open-source scalable storage
Setup a VPN on your iPhone with OpenVPN and Linux
HP Proliant Microserver Gen10 as router or NAS
Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking
Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS
RAID 5 is perfectly fine for home usage
ZFS: resilver performance of various RAID schemas
The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS
ZFS performance on HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 G1610T
The sorry state of CoW file systems
Configuring SCST iSCSI target on Debian Linux (Wheezy)
Why I Do Use ZFS as a File System for My NAS
FreeBSD 10.1 unattended install over PXE & HTTP (no NFS)
Creating configuration backups of HP procurve switches
Configuring, attacking and securing VRRP on Linux
Systemd Forward Secure Sealing of system logs makes little sense
Getting the Sitecom AC600 Wi-Fi adapter running on Linux
The ZFS Event Daemon on Linux
Installation of ZFS on Linux hangs on Debian Wheezy
Please use ZFS with ECC Memory
71 TiB DIY NAS based on ZFS on Linux
ZFS: Performance and capacity impact of ashift=9 on 4K sector drives
Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives
Affordable server with server-grade hardware part II
How to resolve extreme memory usage on Windows 2008 R2-based file servers
My experiences with DFS replication on Windows 2008 R2
How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness
Monitoring HP MSA P2000 G3 I/O latency with Nagios
Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux
Why you should not use IPsec for VPN connectivity
Achieving 450 MB/s network file transfers using Linux Bonding
Things you should consider when building a ZFS NAS
ZFS on Linux: monitor cache hit ratio
An affordable server platform based on server-grade hardware
Eztables: simple yet powerful firewall configuration for Linux
Script that shows smart values of all disks'
Script that shows relevant disk information
Finding a good blu-ray player for Mac OS X
Linux: script that creates table of network interface properties
How to compile HAProxy from source and setup a basic configuration
Redhat explains why chroot is not a security feature
overview of open-source load balancers
I switched my blog from Blogofile to Pelican
Using iSCSI with time machine and Super Duper
Don't use cloud services if you care about secrecy of your data
Why I believe the new Mac Pro won't be a great machine for gaming
Improving iSCSI Native Multi Pathing Round Robin performance
Creating storage benchmark charts with FIO and GNUplot
Linode hacked: the dark side of cloud hosting
Linode hacked: thoughts about cloud security
Storage and I/O: reads vs. writes
Benchmark results of Random I/O performance of different RAID levels
Statistics showing relevance of caching proxy
Understanding IOPS, latency and storage performance
Linux: get a list of al disks and their size
Why VMware vSphere replication is changing the game
Personal Security: erase your computer or phone before repair
Why I bought a digital projector (Panasonic PT-AT5000E)
Experiences running ZFS on Ubuntu Linux 12.04
Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
Setting up a Squid proxy with Clamav anti-virus using c-icap
HP Proliant Microserver N40L is a great NAS or Router
Fully unattended deployment of Windows clients using limited resources
Understanding Windows KMS and MAK volume license activation
Improving web application security by implementing database security
Why security is all about defense in depth
Example of a home networking setup with VLANs
Linux Iptables Firewall Script released on Google code
Neato XV-15 / XV-11 Robotic Vacuum cleaner review
Speeding up Linux MDADM RAID array rebuild time using bitmaps
Setting up a VPN with your iPhone using L2TP, IPSec and Linux
Is there an easy and secure way to transfer files?
Script that deletes old files to keep disk from filling up
Lion's FileVault does not support Bootcamp and external boot disks
Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault
Achieving 220 MB/s network file transfers using Linux Bonding
Additional proof that Apple is ditching the optical drive
Cheap solution for putting an SSD in an iMac
Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS
Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client
Performance monitoring using dstat
Determining smartphone market share using wireless sniffing
Buying a new computer
Why I do not use ZFS as a file system for my NAS
Thunderbolt, a cheap high-speed storage interconnect?
Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html; charset=utf-8).
Parallel / distributed password cracking with John the Ripper and MPI
The downside of 120 Mbit broadband internet
'Improved' image gallery for Blogofile
Firewire: the forgotten security risk
Some pretty NAS case designs
Migration from blogger to blogofile and disqus is complete
Migrated this blog from blogger.com to blogofile
LFS - Linux Firewall Script released
Why filtering DHCP traffic is not always possible with iptables
Belkin Gigabit USB 2.0 adapter works perfectly with Linux
The minimum requirements for a secure system
'Linux: using disk labels to counter storage device name changes'
'Secure programming: how to implement user account management'
Do not buy a hardware RAID controller for home use
Linux network interface bonding / trunking or how to get beyond 1 Gb/s
The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution
Apple is killing off the optical drive just like the floppy disk
Linux Software RAID benchmarking script
'Zabbix Security: client-server communication seems insecure'
Debian Lenny and Dell R410 network card not supported
Solaris is an obsolete platform
The future of ZFS now that OpenSolaris is dead
RAID 5 vs. RAID 6 or do you care about your data?
'A Moment Of Silence: OpenSolaris Is Dead'
Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny
Debian Lenny and Dell S300 H200 and H700 RAID controllers
Lustre and the risk of Serious Data Loss
Secure caching DNS server on Linux with DJBDNS
'Linux RAID level and chunk size: the benchmarks'
'Tool of the month: iftop - advanced bandwidth monitoring'
WFS - WAN Failover Script now available
HP Procurve "auto DoS" feature causing network problems
RAID array size and rebuild speed
'Linux: monitor a directory for files'
'Syslog: the hidden security risk'
Ubuntu and full disk encryption (FDE)
Scanning many hosts in parallel with Nmap using PPSS
Corsair CM PSU-750HX seems ok
Smoking coolermaster Silent Pro M 600W TN6M50
Is the iPhone OS a threat to our freedom?
Why the iPad will be a breakthrough in human computing
The iPad will be the death of Flash
Mounting a file system or partition from a disk image
'Linux: show graphical layout of disk temperatures'
Recovering a lost partition using gpart
Wake On Lan not working with realtek r8168 card
Shunit2, unit testing for shell scripts
Google DNS - what to think of it?
Convert dos file to linux format wit vim
Which file system for a large storage array under Linux?
'Tip of the day: Scrolling in GNU screen'
'Gzip with parallel compression support: pigz'
How to determine which process causes IO ?
Making cowpatty recognize a four-way handshake
Monitor power usage with your UPS
24 TB based on Norco RPC-4020 and Linux Software RAID
Debian Linux Preseeding - an installation framework
Linux Mac Mini - temperature monitoring with lm-sensors
Linux on Mac Mini - boot after power failure
How to run Debian Linux on an Intel based Mac Mini
The security risk of vendor-supplied default SSL certificates
Blu Ray is dead
PPSS version 2.30 now operates asynchronous
Laptop or netbook as router?
How to build an energy efficient computer for home use
Visual representation of hard drives and their temperature
'Linux: obtain motherboard model / type and vendor'
'lm-sensors: hardware monitoring with the w83627ehf module'
Using ncat to provide SSL-support to non-ssl capable software
Howto get the hard disk size under Linux?
20 disk 18 TB RAID 6 storage based on Debian Linux
HighPoint RocketRAID and staggered spinup with Samsung F1
8 TB RAID 6 Linux software RAID using EXT4
Script that shows ETA of RAID rebuild / reshape
Linux RAID 6 performance using software RAID
1.0 GB/s using Linux software RAID
Got myself a Norco RPC-4020
Bash Shell Function Library (BSFL) released.
'Tip of the day for every Linux or Unix user: brace expantion'
Compatibility Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 and Samsung Spinpoint F1
Automated install of Debian Linux based on PXE net booting
FFmpeg performance on a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz
How to escape file names in bash shell scripts
Distributed Parallel Processing Shell Script (PPSS) released
Core i7 920 @ 3,6 Ghz is a true beast!
'Linux: unattended installation with Debian preseeding'
Why Debian/Ubuntu Linux is to be preferred
Why I still won't switch to Linux and keep my Mac
Unattended automatic installation of Linux nvidia binary driver
Release of PPSS - the Parallel Processing Shell Script
Benefits of hyper-threading on a Core 7i processor
Rebooting results in degraded RAID array using Debian Lenny
Calculating EXT2 EXT3 EXT4 stride size when using RAID
Did you know that RDP is as insecure as telnet?
The kind of sound you never want to hear from your computer
Is storage really that cheap?
Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 on Debian howto
Building a RAID 6 array of mixed drives