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Using LetsEncrypt

Lets Encrypt is a new service to provide free SSL keys [1]. I’ve just set it up on a few servers that I run.

Issues

The first thing to note is that the client is designed to manage your keys and treat all keys on a server equally with a single certificate. It shouldn’t be […]

Finding Storage Performance Problems

Here are some basic things to do when debugging storage performance problems on Linux. It’s deliberately not an advanced guide, I might write about more advanced things in a later post.

Disk Errors

When a hard drive is failing it often has to read sectors several times to get the right data, this can dramatically […]

Sociological Images 2015

The above sign was at the Melbourne Docks in December 2014 when I was returning from a cruise. I have no idea why there are 3 men and 1 woman on the sign (and a dock worker was also surprised when I explained why I was photographing it). I wonder whether a sign that […]