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Authorities trying to remove malware from people’s servers, turning your sysadmin hobby into a career, cloud backups, config management, and more.

 

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Why you should consider the BSD license

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Feedback

Cloud backups with Rclone and alternatives, MikroTik network gear, server security, and config management.

 

News

Brit authorities could legally do an FBI and scrub malware from compromised boxen without your knowledge

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about the best way to turn your sysadmin hobby into a career.

 

 

 

 

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GUI Linux apps on Windows, Linux kernel development is pen-tested, ZFS and Docker, and converting a Windows installation to a VM.

 

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FreeBSD IOStat

EuroBSDCon 2021 CfP

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News

Graphical Linux apps are coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux

Linux kernel team rejects University of Minnesota researchers’ apology

“Full disclosure” from the University of Minnesota

 

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We were asked about using ZFS with Docker, and visualizing a physical Windows installation.

 

 

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We answer a bunch of your questions about server hardening, managing ZFS snapshots, Docusign, SSL certs in air-gapped networks, and automating updates.

 

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EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers

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We answer a bunch of your questions about firewalls, best practices for backups, learning ZFS, QoS, SSH key management, backing up Google Drive, and more.

 

Links to things mentioned

Unix Haters Handbook

Allan’s FreeBSD Journal Article

Dummynet: The Better Way to Build FreeBSD Networks

Jim’s ZFS 101

Allan’s book

 

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Customizing FreeBSD Ports and Packages

All Things Open

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Thousands of students learn about backups the hard way, why securing all of DNS isn’t practical, and how to protect Internet-facing services running at home.

 

News

Victoria University of Wellington accidentally nukes files on all desktop PCs

Root Server Operators’ Statement on DNS Encryption [pdf]

 

 

 

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Our first look at the next generation of Arm, alarming claims about a recent Ubiquiti breach, and setting up a FreeBSD file server.

 

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Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel

Check out Joe’s albums

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News

Containerize all the things! Arm v9 takes security seriously

ARM Morello

Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

 

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We were asked about setting up a first FreeBSD file server.

 

 

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Linode

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How we’ll get to 100TB hard disks by the end of the decade, the potential dangers of flipped bits in network traffic, how to organize multiple copies of your backups, and managing dynamic DNS.

 

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Understanding Network Performance

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News

Seagate: 100TB HDDs Due in 2030, Multi-Actuator Drives to Become Common

Toshiba’s disk drive: WTF is the flux control effect?

Bitflips when PCs try to reach windows.com: What could possibly go wrong?

 

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We were asked about how to ensure data integrity on multiple backups, and managing dynamic DNS.

 

 

 

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The OVH data center fire and related tales, drama with WireGuard in FreeBSD, why you should plug your flash drives in regularly, and more.

 

News

OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg

OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder

OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction

Hard lessons learned from the OVH datacenter blaze

In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router

Painful Lessons Learned in Security and Community

FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree

 

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Mitigating bitrot with checksums, and why flash isn’t any good as cold storage.

 

 

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Why it’s so hard to build a PC these days, finding help for ZFS issues, getting started with a homebrew router, and more.

 

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The history of ARM and FreeBSD

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Discussion

We talk about why it’s so hard to find PC parts and peripherals at the moment. Jim wrote an article about buying a gaming PC.

 

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We were asked about how to get help with ZFS issues, encrypting the root partition on ZFS, and how to get started with a homebrew router.

 

 

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Why hard disks will be around for ever, bad news for VR, slowdown from disk I/O, and when clustering isn’t necessarily the best solution.

 

Plugs

Register for Open Source 101

OpenZFS: dRAID is coming

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News

Seagate: Why SSDs will not kill disk drives

Google Cardboard is no longer for sale

 

Free consulting

We were asked about I/O wait on Linux, and clustering Linux machines.

 

 

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