Latest openssh disables arcfour and blowfish-cbc
If you move a lot of data using rsync/scp/ssh you probably found out by now that arcfour or blowfish ciphers are a lot faster than others. A comparison is found in this thread. (TL;DR arcfou256 is the...
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Trick Windows 8 into creating a RAID10 (stripped mirrors) array
I recently had to upgrade the storage for my desktop and I thought that since I have a few left-over disks I’d try to build a RAID10 array – RAID10 is very cool because it gives performance close to...
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Benchmark comparison of Intel RST RAID and Microsoft Storage Spaces pool
I posted last time that I upgraded my workstation’s mechanical storage. Since I had a hard time deciding between using storage spaces and my motherboard’s Intel RST sollution I searched some...
View ArticlePrevent update-grub from finding LVM based virtual machines
I’m running a debian based XEN box to host various virtual machines. Lately I’ve been having an issue when running update-grub. All the partitions for the virtual machines are found and added to grub:...
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Raspberry Pi A+ Nixie NTP Clock
Who doesn’t like a Nixie tube based clock. Even my wife loved it. Bonus points if it’s very accurate. I had in my parts box, for a very long time now, the display PCB from an old PH-meter. Old enough...
View ArticleBuild a Smart Scanner using a PI
I got a free all-in-one printer from a friend who didn’t need it (consumed way too much ink cartridges). Since I liked the idea of the ScanSnap Evernote scanner but I didn’t want to pay 500$ for it....
View ArticleSwitched to chrome but magnet links open with kTorrent instead of custom script
On one of my kde workstations I switched from firefox to chrome. One issue I found was that I have a custom script that takes magnet links and adds them to my NAS server instead of opening them...
View Articlemono 3.10 on slackware 64 bit
I installed mono using sbopkg and found the following issue while trying to run keepass: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall...
View ArticleRunning gcp.py from cron
On my backup server I run gcp.py from gdatacopier to backup my google docs. I had to fix two issues in order to get it to run from a bash script: – the PYTHONPATH had to be exported prior to running,...
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Migrating Gerrit to Google OAuth from Google OpenID
I expect this post to be obsolete pretty soon, but for now I expect this will help you skip many of the issues and questions I had going forward with upgrading Gerrit and switching to Google OAuth from...
View ArticleQuickly disable email for one virtual host
If you discover that one site that you host is sending tons of emails there is an easy and quick way to disable email only for one particular virtual host. Add the following line in it’s virtual host...
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Repairing a Husky Hunter after reversing batteries.
Ok, I did it. For the first time since I remember I inserted batteries wrongly and reversed polarity. And that in a device I’m pretty fond of, and I recently aquired: a Husky Hunter. It was only for a...
View ArticleMissing 5Ghz WiFi settings on Cisco E3200 with Tomat Shibby
I followed the instructions and installed Tomat on my Cisco E3200 router without issue. I chose Tomato by Shibby specifically because it supports the 5GHz radio in this particular router model. But woe...
View ArticleSubdomains pointing to private IPs are not resolved on Tomato
Some time ago I used to remember IPs on my home and work network but these days I rely much more on dns and dhcp reservation for this tasks. This has the advantage that I can easy move a service, say...
View ArticleSpeed-up WAN-LAN speed on the Cisco E3200 using Tomato
There’s a really long discussion on bcm_nat and fastnat on the various forums like linksysinfo. The short version of this is: fastnat and bcm_nat are disabled by default because they break QOS and...
View ArticleBrightness keys on Linux Mint for Acer E3-111
Enabling brightness control is moderately easy (I’m pretty sure they worked out of the box on slackware). Go to https://github.com/codingtony/acer-brightness-linux-acpi and follow the instructions....
View ArticleAdding a form with autocalculated fields in squarespace
I had to build a form on a squarespace hosted site that has to auto-calculate a couple of fields and also do field validation and offer the option to email the whole calculation to a visitor chosen...
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pfSense home router using the PC Engines APU1D4
My old home router based on a sandy bridge dual core celeron and a gigabyte motherboard got “stolen” by my wife to use as a desktop as her old laptop was getting pretty slow. I ran for a while Tomato...
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Intel RST RAID Non-RAID Disk after BIOS update
So, having nothing better to do and for no good reason I decided to update my workstation’s BIOS to the latest version released by Gigabyte. Since ignoring the “If it works don’t fix it” mantra is...
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Verify SMART details for members of an Intel RST RAID volume
Sooo, Be it because of the BIOS update to a beta or because of my drives but my RAID10 keeps failing. I documented before how to repair such a broken array but I didn’t want to go ahead with it too...
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