It has already been predicted many times, but I personally believe that 2017 is going to be the Year of the Linux Desktop. Let me explain why:
Late October 2016, Apple unveiled its groundbreaking new MacBook Pro. Besides some expected hardware refreshments like a newer CPU and a blazingly fast …
more ...About a month ago, I started playing around with Zabbix to improve my monitoring needs. While setting up Zabbix on Debian/Ubuntu itself is pretty straightforward when using apache2, and also doable when preferring nginx, the documentation regarding plugins and custom checks felt missing and a bit cumbersome to me …
more ...A while ago, I started playing around with Arch Linux on a spare computer. After following the (excellent) Beginners' guide I ended up with a rather nice LVM on LUKS setup. This spare computer has one physical (SSD) disk (/dev/sda), which is divided in /dev/sda1 (which is /boot …
For my home internet connection, I am a customer of Online.nl for their very affordable Supersnel Internet 30 Mb/s package. With this subscription, you will also receive their default modem, the Huawei HG655d home gateway which gets all it's settings pushed via the provider. However, after not even …
more ...Yesterday, I needed to solve a pretty interesting problem. I had to move a few TB's of data from server A to server B in different countries and datacenters. Server A had a pretty decent connection, Server B had an awesome fast connection, but the connection between each other was …
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