One of the basic ways of connecting to a FreeBSD server is through a secure shell, commonly referred to as ssh. The most basic usage of an ssh connection is to give you a full-fledged command prompt on the remote machine. However, the ssh connection can also be used as a tunnel for countless other things, […]
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2013
Once again, I’d like to wish all my readers (there’s more than one, right?) a very happy new year. My resolution is to keep using this place as a drop-off for stuff I need to store outside my own head.
Hitman Absolution
Rant power: Activated! I just finished playing Hitman Absolution, the latest installment in the Hitman series. I’ve been a big fan of the series since the beginning, and eagerly pre-ordered it when it was announced. I must say that after the first few missions, I was disappointed, but now that I’ve finished it all the […]
Expanding a ZFS pool
In an earlier post, I explained how it was possible to grow a ZFS pool by replacing all disks one-by-one. In that post, I also mentioned that if you have enough spare connectors available, you can easily expand the pool by adding another array of disks. A while back, I had replaced a bunch of older […]
Instant onChange with IE checkboxes
Browser differences are a daily fact of life for webdevelopers. It is something you either learn to deal with, or it kills you before 40. Some of these are just plain stupid, but some are simply different ways of interpreting the standard. A good example is the onChange event. This is a simple event, commonly […]
Making sense of ‘Over the hills and far away’
You may or may not know the song ‘Over the hills and far away’ by Gary Moore (there’s also an excellent cover by Nightwish). Instrumentally, this is a very enjoyable song, with good tempo and some great guitar bits. The lyrics however, are slightly odd, and the more you listen to them, the less sense […]
Growing a ZFS pool
I run several fileservers using the excellent ZFS filesystem. While originally a Solaris invention, it was successfully ported to FreeBSD for version 7. It is extremely well suited for large fileservers due to a combination of reliable software RAID (modes 1, 5, and 6), checksumming and snapshots. Combined with the option of nested filesystems and […]
Holy Wars: Mac vs PC
I recently got drawn into another ‘Mac vs PC’ argument , which is a bit silly, as I don’t really like Windows, and don’t really mind Macs (to be clear: I’m always on the Windows-side of the argument). The only real problem I have with Macs, are the users. For some reason, pretty much all […]
2011
I wish you all a Happy New Year.
Replacing bad motherboard capacitors
Now, this is a problem that likely won’t affect you if you either replace your PC every 2 years, or don’t use it very often. However, if you’re like me and build your machines to specs that’ll set you for five years, and then keep them on 100% CPU load 24⁄7 for those 5 years (thank you, […]