RAID PainRAID Pain
One of my clients has a NAS device. Last week they tried to do what should have been a routine RAID operation, they added a new larger disk as a[...]
Smart Phones Should Measure Charge SpeedSmart Phones Should Measure Charge Speed
My first mobile phone lasted for days between charges. I never really found out how long it’s battery would last because there was no way that I could use it[...]
One Android Phone Per ChildOne Android Phone Per Child
I was asked for advice on whether children should have access to smart phones, it’s an issue that many people are discussing and seems worthy of a blog post. Claimed[...]
BTRFS Status June 2015BTRFS Status June 2015
The version of btrfs-tools in Debian/Jessie is incapable of creating a filesystem that can be mounted by the kernel in Debian/Wheezy. If you want to use a BTRFS filesystem on[...]
Anti-Systemd PeopleAnti-Systemd People
For the Technical People This post isn’t really about technology, I’ll cover the technology briefly skip to the next section if you aren’t interested in Linux programming or system administration.[...]
SE Linux Play Machine Over TorSE Linux Play Machine Over Tor
I work on SE Linux to improve security for all computer users. I think that my work has gone reasonably well in that regard in terms of directly improving security[...]
Systemd NotesSystemd Notes
A few months ago I gave a lecture about systemd for the Linux Users of Victoria. Here are some of my notes reformatted as a blog post: Scripts in /etc/init.d[...]
Conference SuggestionsConference Suggestions
LCA 2015 is next week so it seems like a good time to offer some suggestions for other delegates based on observations of past LCAs. There’s nothing LCA specific about[...]
DNSSECDNSSEC
reason=”verification failed; insecure key” I’ve recently noticed OpenDKIM on systems I run giving the above message when trying to verify a DKIM message from my own domain. According to Google[...]
wp-spamshieldwp-spamshield
Yesterday I installed the wp-spamshield plugin for WordPress [1]. It blocks automated comment spam systems by using JavaScript and cookies, apparently most spammers can’t handle that. Before I installed it[...]