Autodesk Revit, MS SQL Server LocalDB, and 4K disk blocks
I learned yesterday that Autodesk Revit uses MS SQL Server LocalDB, and the latter is sensitive towards 4K disk blocks.
Read More → Autodesk Revit, MS SQL Server LocalDB, and 4K disk blocksStrelka sync error on Security Onion 3.1.0
Strelka failed to sync on Security Onion 3.1.0.
Read More → Strelka sync error on Security Onion 3.1.0Dell PowerSwitch S4048-ON, (rapid-)PVST, port-channels, and VLAN 1
TL;DR, port-channels on the Dells needs portmode hybrid in addition to switchport to enable VLAN 1, and it helps to ignore “invalid” PVST-BPDUs by adding no spanning-tree pvst err-disable cause invalid-pvst-bpdu to the port-channels.
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If your switch ports are part of a link aggregation group, and those interfaces are listed as suspended, check the LAG configuration on the other end.
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I only saw this strange behaviour on my own laptop running a week old 16.0-CURRENT, but here’s one way of coping.
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I migrated our 14.4-STABLE syslog server to a XCP-ng VM, and noticed local-unbound made loud complaints.
Read More → local-unbound: warning: so-sndbuf 4194304 was not granted, got 9216Replacing the main battery in Eaton 9PX3000iRT2U
The user manual for Eaton 9PX3000iRT2U is missing one piece of information. Luckily, I found the missing piece in the user manual for the latest generation of 9PX UPSs.
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At ${WORK} we have a number of UPSs. Two of them are Eaton 9PX3000iRT2U, each with a NETWORK-M2 NMC (744-A3983). I noticed the NMCs didn’t run the latest firmware, 3.1.15. Let’s upgrade them, or so I thought.
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My internet provider told me a while ago that my old 4G router would be left in the dark after New Year. Enter the ZTE MC888 Pro.
Read More → Migrating to ZTE MC888 ProRunning out of vnodes while running Synth
Synth has frozen on more than one occasion while it was running commands like umount /var/synth/builders/synth-live/SL04/ccache and building more than one package at a time. Manually running commands such as df -ah appeared deadlocked since they never finished, and Ctrl+C never aborted the processes. A reboot was needed, well, I always ended up giving the […]
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