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Our concerns about Google’s latest acquisition, the technical implications of the sanctions on Russia, more on VPNs and filesystem replacements, and using Nagios with Sanoid.

 

Plugs

Controlling Resource Limits with RCTL in FreeBSD

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News

Google makes second-largest acquisition ever: $5.4 billion for Mandiant

Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity

Internet backbone provider Lumen quits Russia

Another Step Towards The Russian Splinternet

Russia faces IT crisis with just two months of data storage left

Cloudflare, Akamai defend decision to stay in Russia

 

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about using Nagios with Sanoid.

Reddit thread

 

 

 

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How not to solve some of the problems with filesystems, why backups are only part of defending your data, and Allan finally tells us the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

 

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NFS Sharing with ZFS

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Discussion

Backups ‘no longer effective’ for stopping ransomware attacks

Where Did I Put That File?

 

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We were asked about the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

 

 

 

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Browser version numbers might break websites, Samsung’s bad crypto implementation, more on Mazda and Caddy, the FreeBSD init system, and keeping VMs in sync between the two physical hosts.

 

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UNIX Philosophy: The ideas that made UNIX

Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS

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News

Three major browsers are about to hit version 100. Will websites cope?

Samsung shipped ‘100m’ Android phones with flawed encryption

 

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We were asked about the FreeBSD init system, and VMs in sync between the two physical hosts.

 

The FreeBSD Boot Process

reboot -r on untrusted system

 

 

 

 

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Maintaining data long-term, Chrome OS comes to generic PCs, and how to detect intrusions and malware on servers and networks.

 

Plugs

The FreeBSD Boot Process

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News/discussion

Most hard drives have a lifespan of three to five years. Have you checked yours lately?

Google is bringing Chrome OS to PCs and Macs

 

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We were asked about detecting intrusions or malware on servers and networks.

 

 

 

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Why Arm was never likely to be acquired by Nvidia, an expensive bug in Mazda cars, and how there isn’t always a technical solution to a policy problem.

 

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Unix: On the path to BSD

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News

Arm’s $66bn sale to Nvidia collapses

Intel’s strategy for outflanking Arm takes shape with bet on RISC-V

Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems

 

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We were asked about solving a policy problem with a technical solution.

 

 

 

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What the recent Spotify controversy means for open podcasting standards, why young people increasingly don’t understand the concept of a hierarchical filesystem, and our update practices.

 

Plugs

Modern inetd on FreeBSD

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Discussion

Joe Rogan Podcast is staying on Spotify says boss

Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever

 

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The pain of updating Windows, FreeBSD vs Linux, and getting started with ZFS.

 

Plugs

FreeBSD Periodic Scripts

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News/discussion

Microsoft: Windows needs at least 8 hours online to update reliably

Why we’re migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD

Counterpoint to “FreeBSD’s network stack is better”

 

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We were asked about getting started with ZFS.

What Makes a Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog and When Should You Avoid It

Choosing the right ZFS pool layout

OpenZFS: All about the cache vdev or L2ARC

ZFS 101—Understanding ZFS storage and performance

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RAIDZ

 

 

 

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Allan has a recent war story for us, Microsoft blocked email from Linode, maximizing performance in a large capacity storage server, and more.

 

Plugs

Cluster Provisioning with Nomad and Pot

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Feedback

Register article about Microsoft blocking email from Linode

 

Allan’s recent war story

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We were asked about maximizing performance in a large capacity storage server.

ZFS RAIDZ stripe width, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RAIDZ

 

 

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A potential new European recursive DNS, why VPNs aren’t the silver bullet some people think they are, and how we set up new systems from scratch.

 

Plugs

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The Birth of Unix

 

News/discussion

EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities

 

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We were asked about how we set up machines from scratch.

 

 

 

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A novel approach to an old scam, your feedback about web servers and ransomware, and maintaining old databases.

 

Plugs

Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD

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News/Discussion

Pay to park scam

 

Feedback

Jim’s review of the Caddy web server

 

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We were asked about optimising and maintaining an old database.