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Brick uptime

I replaced my server Brick yesterday, resetting my longest uptime on any machine ever. For the record: Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 years ago, on January 14, 2017, at 14:01 | 1 comment

File Ubuntu bug URL without help page with burried link

The Ubuntu page for reporting a bug does a good job of hiding the actual launchpad URL for filing a bug. Here is a direct one: Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 years ago, on December 27, 2016, at 12:12 | Comments closed

Fixing hanging and slow Windows Update on Windows 7

Windows 7 update service is slow to begin with, but trying it on a computer that has been off for a while is damn near impossible. This is a known issue, apparently. Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 years ago, on November 17, 2016, at 21:11 | Comments closed

My Front suspension

On my Multi Cycle bike, I have a SR Suntour CR9, serial number TF00478709, Series: CR, Year: 2015, Name: CR 9V-D-P-LO 700C TS 300/0, from 2015. Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on July 09, 2016, at 13:07 | Comments closed

Using ‘Require expr’ in Apache: Cannot parse expression in require line: syntax error, unexpected $end

We found that if you do what the Apache documentation says and put quotes around the expr: Require user victron Require expr "%{REQUEST_URI} =~ m#^/.well-known/acme-challenge/.*#" Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on July 08, 2016, at 10:07 | 1 comment

More recent posts on YTEC blog

As Bigsmoke indicated, we had some issues with google not finding content. For the same reason, I would like to share my insight into some stuff I write about: Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on June 28, 2016, at 09:06 | 1 comment

Recent posts on the YTEC blog

Ytec, where I work since July 31 2015, is an IT company specializing in customer-specific custom software ("klantspecifieke maatwerk software"). Somewhere in late 2015, YTEC deployed a fancy new website based on React, which, to my surprise, is actually indexed somewhat decently by Google. Still, I want to be able to find my own posts on the YTEC blog when I filter by “site:blog.bigsmoke.us”, which is why I'm listing my posts there here: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on June 27, 2016, at 18:06 | 1 comment

Sending mail from a NATed host with Postfix

When sending mail from a host behind NAT, you will run into trouble when the "From" says "root@host.localdomain", because receiving servers will refuse that domain. Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on June 03, 2016, at 11:06 | Comments closed

Download dmcrypt (cryptsetup) encryption key from remote server and auto mount

One of the inconveniences of encryption is the need to open the encrypted volume by hand when the computer/server boots. Luckily, you can easily automate that securely. You need a machine that will act as a key server, whether that's a Raspberry Pi or some VPS you hire. Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on May 22, 2016, at 20:05 | Comments closed

Preventing degraded array on every boot

I had a server that booted with a degraded array every time, because there was a USB drive attached to it, that messed up the auto detection. I solved it by putting this in mdadm.conf: Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on April 27, 2016, at 09:04 | 1 comment