Most of you will know that Ubuntu 16.04 will have ZFS merged into the kernel. Despite licensing argu...
I have been running pfsense on an Alix tiny computer for a long time. Pretty much have not touched i...
I recently experimented a little with Linux for SPARC(more here https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linu...
Since btrfs has send and receive capabilities I took a look at it. The title is replication but if y...
Sometimes you have to rely on a routine to reliably provide dates. In this example I want to know fo...
This is an update post. Previously I had a post here: http://blog.ls-al.com/check-logfiles-for-recen...
From time to time we notice that some LUN's are not optimal. It could be because of off-lining a LUN...
If you find yourself trying to figure out where your operating system is spending time with reads an...
There are several ways to get this done but I found using curl gives a good quick test of how long a...
I like to work in a tabbed SSH connection manager. Especially when I have hundred's or thousands of...
I typically prefer using Nagios for network monitoring. Nagios itself is tricky to get going on Sola...
I recently spent a lot of time trying to figure out why a private key I exported from putty was not...
I noticed on Fedora it is really easy to enable powerline in your terminal. This article explains it...
Until now I have used ssh and javascript to do some of the more advanced automation tasks like snaps...
A lot has been written about Solaris 11 networking changes and how to manage it with different comma...