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Adventures in XCP-ng 7.6
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.
Read More → Adventures in XCP-ng 7.6Safe Kernel Programming with Rust
The discussion on whether FreeBSD should eventually replace C with Rust, produced a link to “Safe Kernel Programming with Rust“, a degree project in computer science and engineering, written by Johannes Lundberg while at KTH in Sweden. If you aim for printing the PDF file as two-sided, then print the following pages in the following […]
Read More → Safe Kernel Programming with RustAndroid 7.1.1’s Clock app and Do not disturb
The Clock app on my Sony Xperia Z5 running Android 7.1.1 crashed every time I tried using the stopwatch or the countdown timer.
Read More → Android 7.1.1’s Clock app and Do not disturbDell Precision 3530 and Symantec Ghost
Be sure to change SATA Operation from RAID to AHCI in the BIOS Settings before running Symantec Ghost from a memory stick. The former setting will effectively hide your NVMe drive. Better safe than sorry, reinstate the RAID selection afterwards. Ref.: https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln301036/windows-10-install-with-nvme-ssd-and-sata-drives?lang=en
Read More → Dell Precision 3530 and Symantec Ghosthostmaster@ximalas.info is compromised. Password must be changed
This is all so cute. Scammers don’t bother doing any research at all, but harvest our email addresses and send their junk emails high and low. Scammers usually have no sense of spelling nor grammar, which is the case in the matter at hand. Sorry, I don’t scare so easily.
Read More → hostmaster@ximalas.info is compromised. Password must be changedUpgrading localbase on 13.0-CURRENT using ports-mgmt/synth
I upgraded base from 12.0-ALPHA9 to 13.0-CURRENT (r339639) on a VM today. While preparing for rebuilding localbase, I wiped clean /var/synth/live_packages/{All,Latest}/*, and cleaned the ccache repo stored in /var/cache/ccache. Trouble arose when I ordered ports-mgmt/synth to rebuild some 116 ports according to a specification stored in a local metaport. DEFAULT_VERSION+=ssl=base was being used at the […]
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First attempt at running FreeBSD/amd64 12.0-BETA1
I spent the better part of the weekend upgrading my laptop to 12.0-BETA1. Three hickups has been discovered so far.
Read More → First attempt at running FreeBSD/amd64 12.0-BETA1Somewhat improved iperf3 performance on Chelsio T6225-CR
After upgrading to stable/11, r339418, incorporating the recent commits for cxgbe(4) et al. (r339389, and r339393-r339404), I see a somewhat improved iperf3 performance.
Read More → Somewhat improved iperf3 performance on Chelsio T6225-CRImprovements on ZFS’ scrub speed in r339034
r339034 introduced some improvement in stable/11 when ZFS performs scans, e.g. scrubbing.
Read More → Improvements on ZFS’ scrub speed in r339034Slow charge on Sony Xperia Z5 Premium Dual
I used my active HDMI adapter the other day to show the display of my phone to some students. Since then, my phone would only charge in slow mode.
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