Why I chose MacPorts (over Homebrew) and what I discovered while I was doing it.
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ZFS on Ubuntu 14.04
I found 4x old 750GB hard drives from 2008 which came up as ZFS when I installed them into a new ubuntu system on an old box. I installed ZFSonLinux (specifically ubuntu 14.04), samba (smb) and SSH (OpenSSH) and set to the task of re-creating the volume. Essentially, it was very painless… except for a couple of hours in there one of the power cables had come off one of the raid drives and it took a fair bit of diagnoses to get it sorted. In the end. I resilvered 1.3TB of data and set to the task of working out whether I should delete it or back it up to my new RAID… This is how I did it.
XKCD, orbital speed and travelling to Mars
I was scanning stack exchange and came to a VERY interesting question about travelling to Mars (as a kid I was HUGELY interested in space—and even at one time dreamed of being an astronaut :/). The question seemed to have merit and upon reading it even I said, “Yeah, why don’t they do THAT?” Even …
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sudo please
I stumbled across this alias quite a few months ago, but it was under a different name then. I wanted to find it today and Google searches brought up a whole heap of malicious finds on it, aimed at targeting the unsuspecting newbie to linux. Obviously there are some very dangerous linux commands and so …
A Poem about Coffee
Deleting Things
I was messing about with my Google Drive folder and this popped up… and I thought, if only we could! What would be next? And of course… That last one reminds me of the British sitcom “The IT Crowd” where Jen does a presentation on “The Internet.” :D
FBI posts PSA on IoT
In September, the FBI released a Public Service Announcement stating the Internet of Things poses opportunities for Cyber Crime.
Then, October is the National Cyber Security Awareness month.
Visit these websites and learn more about both.
The Casio F-91W
UPDATE: I had to add the comparison image between the iPhone 3G (2008) and the watch (1991). I had one of these watches! It was my first ever digital watch. Oh how I loved thee. There was a time I would not walk outside the house without wearing a watch, but sadly that changed in …
Beer: 99.9% Fat Free!!!
I’ve flagged this as humour, not because it’s funny but that I don’t think it’s important how many grams of sugar or carbs are in a beer. What is important is the fact that it’s beer and there are too many other things to consider. None-the-less, I would like to see everything labelled as well. …