Reusing a ZFS drive for another filesystem
ZFS is awesome, but sometimes it's too sticky. Trying to use a disk for EXT4 or NTFS after it's been in a ZFS pool is difficult.
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Recursively Moving Files
Sometimes you have a lot of little files in many subdirectories, and you want to move them all into one folder. Here's how at the command line.
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The Kaspersky Hypothesis
Kaspersky Labs is accused by the NSA of spying for the Russian Government. Is this probable?
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Computer control your Tempurpedic Ergo bed frame
I recently got an old man's bed. You know, the kind with hydraulics to raise or lower the head or foot of the bed. It connects to wifi, so I decided to poke it a bit.
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My Personal Status
My home was devastated by the West Virginia floods on June 23rd. Here's my story.
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Ubuntu 16.04 PXE Installs Fail Because it Mangles the Squashfs Path
Trying to set up a network install of Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial? Good luck with that. Looks like a PXE breaking bug has crept in at the last minute.
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Porting Old Titles to Linux Isn't The Answer
Why would I want to play a 5 year old game on Linux? What good is Office 2000 to me? You can't justify saying there is no market by pointing at how few people buy age old crap. Let's stop this nonsense.
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BQ Aquaris M10 Unboxing And review
My BQ Ubuntu tablet just arrived from Spain. Here's a first look at it's Linuxy tablety desktopy goodness. "The coolest worst of both worlds you can buy."
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Now With Encryption!
I've enabled SSL encryption on my blog now using Letsencrypt. It's pretty easy and here's how to do it.
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Freeradius EAP CRL Generation
Once you're issuing certificates for Freeradius authentication, you need to maintain a list of those certificates that are no longer valid. Here's how.
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