I want to minimize writes to the boot/root filesystem for a bunch of bullshit reasons: It’s a flash drive, so repeated writing will eventually wear it out, “security”, keeping myself honest from a reproduceability perspective, in terms of modifying the […]
Samba 4.8.0+ includes “libfruit” and can be configured to be an endpoint for TimeMachine backups for MacOS High Sierra or later. (archive). Considering TimeCapsule is like $300, that’s pretty neat! It seems to work well in our experience so far!
When I boot the virtual machine with the NAS system software, I usually interrupt the boot to start in single-user mode. This gives me an opportunity to: $ echo terra > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname so that the virtual machine comes online with […]
systemd, as is its nature, subsumes into itself a number of facilities that historically have separate processes and utilities. In particular, system logging is now part of systemd, recorded in binary files, and accessible via the journalctl utility. And while […]
The build was uneventful. It’s screwing and slotting things into places they’re supposed to be. (As an aside; this struck me to be quite true, as well: https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/986217575569735680 ) Burn-in proceeded in the usual phases: cpu and memory, then disks, […]
See part 0 for the previous in the series. These posts are not going to be focused on the physical build, as that’s been readily covered (and better) by others. I want to focus on the software side of the […]
Sometime in – h*ck I don’t know, 2006? – I last built my personal computer. At the time, it was a combination Serious Desktop Workhorse and File Server. In time, I’ve replaced the former with a ${day_job}-provided machine, have relegated […]