Author: Trond Endrestøl
Acceptable performance of cxgbe(4), and TOE almost didn’t crash the system
After upgrading this system to stable/12 r348672, my Chelsio T6225-CR NIC finally provided acceptable performance.
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Lenovo ThinkPad T430s stuck in airplane mode
A student came by my office carrying his Lenovo ThinkPad T430s. Windows 10 was stuck in airplane mode. I saw no other alternative than disabling the Radio Management Service and reboot the computer.
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I installed Citrix XenServer 7.2 on a spare server, created a small VM running FreeBSD/amd64 head r347896, and updated the host all the way to XS 7.6. Upgrading to Citrix Hypervisor 8.0.0 requires boot media, and the procedure is pretty painless. I added the XS80E001.zip update and rebooted the host. Neither a license server nor a license […]
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A.k.a. {‘EXIT’,joe,goodbye}.
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For some unknown reason, KB4474419 and KB4489878 failed to install automatically on Windows 7 SP1 x64 and Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, respectively. One client was unable to install KB4474419 and two servers had issues with KB4489878. After struggling for a while, I opted to download the updates and installing them manually. Go to https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/ […]
Read More → KB4474419 and KB4489878Parallel ZFS mounting
Parallel mounting of ZFS filesystem was introduced in r344569 and is great for shortening the boot time. The change creates a cosmetic problem, partial ordering of the mounted filesystems. Here’s a shell script coercing the output of df(1) into a comprehensible listing.
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Having access to “Azure Dev Tools for Teaching” (formerly known as MS Imagine, MS DreamSpark, and MSDN Academic Alliance) for training and experimentation has its perks, but I miss the ability to show certain desktop icons without activating Windows 10 and/or Server 2019. Here’s how.
Read More → Desktop icons in modern WindowsGetting Bareos up & running on FreeBSD stable/12
I’m in the process of figuring out if Bareos can replace AMANDA in my shop. What is better than setting up a test server and do as many mistakes as possible before going live?
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I’m waiting for my copy of “Cisco Digital Network Architecture: Intent-based Networking for the Enterprise (Networking Technology)” to arrive. In the meantime, I glanced at the contents on Amazon. Among the dedications, there is a binary message. Add a bit of Erlang magic and the message is revealed.
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I tried XCP-ng in a lab today. The lab ran XenServer 7.6 from my previous experiments. I started long ago with XS 7.2 and 5 hosts in a single pool. The upgrade to XCP-ng 7.6 went smoothly.
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