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  • A virtualized DMZ with docker

    Being somewhat of a minimalist, having only one server at home, but still trying to make a good, secure and stable infrastructure, it bothered me to forward network traffic directly to my server. Granted, most of the services exposed was running in docker, but it still was forwarding it directly into my «red zone». A…

  • Changing partitions and zfs disklayout without downtime?

    When setting up my SSD zpool – which I basically wanted because I wanted *no* constant disk-access to my disk-based zpool, I was lazy. Laziness almost never pays off. Before starting with ZFS, I had almost my full SSD as an LVM physical volume (except the bootdisk). Then, I added my external disk cabinet and…

  • Moro med backup!

    I noen år nå har jeg kjørt duplicity backup både på servesystemer og klienter. Dette har virket bra, men har det samme problemet som all annen inkrementell filbackup: Før eller siden må du ta ny full backup for at det ikke skal bli for tungt å kjøre restore. Med mye data trenger du da relativt…

  • Nok en Microsoft-skatt unngått…..

    Min gamle EEE 901 som gjorde nytten på weekendturer hit og dit og var fryktelig grei å ha, har lenge ligget i skapet og samlet støv med en knust LCD-skjerm. Men i sommer tenkte jeg at noe skulle gjøres med den, så jeg ringer leverandøren, som sier: «Nei, beklager. Det vil nok ikke lønne seg,…

  • Backporting apt and hildon-application manager…

    …or, a failed attempt at breaking OS2008! Recently, I’ve been mildly annoyed by an application manager bug, namely this one: A long version field making only a very small portion of the name shown in the list of available packages. Seeing that it’s supposed to be fixed in the next version of ITOS, I decided…