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Linux Ubuntu WakeOnLAN 

Linux WakeOnLAN Issue

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 admin

Wake On LAN Issue I had a strange issue where my ZFS and restic backups to an Ubuntu backup server

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Ubuntu ZFS 

Ubuntu server 20.04 zfs root and OCI

February 21, 2020April 12, 2020 admin

My experiment to: create an Ubuntu 20.04 (not final release as of Feb 20) server in Virtualbox setup server with

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Ubuntu ZFS 

Ubuntu ZFS replication

April 20, 2016 admin

Most of you will know that Ubuntu 16.04 will have ZFS merged into the kernel. Despite licensing arguments I see

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Bash Ubuntu 

Powerline for your terminal on Ubuntu

September 9, 2015 admin

I noticed on Fedora it is really easy to enable powerline in your terminal. This article explains it well: http://fedoramagazine.org/add-power-terminal-powerline/

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Ubuntu ZFS 

Ubuntu On a ZFS Root File System for Ubuntu 15.04

January 1, 2015March 18, 2015 admin

Start Update 03.18.15: This is untested but I suspect if you are upgrading the kernel to 3.19.0 and you have

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Ubuntu ZFS 

Ubuntu On a ZFS Root File System for Ubuntu 14.04

June 5, 2014June 5, 2014 admin

This is an update post to making an Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) OS work with ZFS root volume. Mostly the

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Gnome Ubuntu 

Auto Login and Sudo Security Cheat

July 24, 2013July 24, 2013 admin Gnome

Sometimes you have a VM that you just don’t care about security.  I do the following to cheat a little

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Linux Ubuntu Virtualbox 

Virtualbox Guest Additions Linux

June 23, 2013June 23, 2013 admin

If you experience issues with installing the Virtualbox Guest Additions it could be that the build environment, dkms or kernel

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Linux Ubuntu ZFS 

Ubuntu root on ZFS upgrading kernels

June 11, 2013June 19, 2013 admin

Update 1: On a subsequent kernel upgrade to 3.8.0.25 I realized that the zfs modules are getting compiled just fine

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Linux Ubuntu 

Nautilus Mount Windows Share

December 20, 2012June 24, 2013 admin

I have successfully used the Gnome Nautilus browser in the past to mount Windows as well as Microsoft DFS shares.

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