ADRIAN’S BLOG
Ramblings of an IT geek
COVID-19
I'd drafted a final blog relating to my FreeNAS adventures over the last few months, but it all seems a little pointless at the minute given whats going on around the world with COVID-19. Who could have even begun to imagine we'd be where we are now when I ordered the...
Happy Birthday
..too Me! I just realised that in almost 200 blogs, I haven’t once blogged about my birthday, so this one is to wish Happy Birthday to me!
More Raspberry Pi 4
It really is quite incredible what this tiny little computer can do, especially when compared with the very early home computers that I got the opportunity to play with when I was about the same age as my daughter. So this blog is about some more Raspberry Pi 4 things...
Aperture
This is another one of those blogs that I started (well, I gave it a name and saved it!) a few years ago, but just never got around to it. I thought I better having blogged about it a little here, and I really do need to find myself a replacement for Apple Aperture....
Episode V – The Apps Strike Back
I really can't remember how long ago I drafted this blog about Apps and Linux, but the main block was in the classic format and it was supposed to follow on from this blog, so I'd say it was at least a couple of years ago! Having recently updated my MacBook Air which...
Raspbian & RetroPie
So I’d mentioned my Christmas present - a Raspberry Pi4 Desktop Kit - when blogged about Pi-hole here, but I’ve now started playing with the Pi4 for what I thought I might use if for (Raspbian & RetroPie) when I ask for one from Santa! The first MicroSD cards I’ve...
More Whisk(e)y
I’ve not done a whisky update for a little while, and certainly missed a Christmas update, but don’t worry - I did get some more whisk(e)y for Christmas, although one was a bit of a shocker! Last years Christmas whisky, and another which I seemed to remember arrived...
Pi-hole
I got a Raspberry Pi 4 for Christmas, although never really had in mind running Pi-hole. I've also been playing around with various browsers, which is what actually got me thinking about using Pi-hole. And finally, after a couple of Youtube videos I decided to give...
A tale of two (faulty) devices
Let's be clear before I start, I get this is probably an unfair comparison, but I'm going to make it anyway! Over the last month, I've had two electronic devices fail - firstly my Apple iPhone X and then shortly afterwards my Netvue Orbcam. So, this is the...
Bitwarden
So much for a slow start to 2020! Bitwarden is another one of those things that appear to have passed me by, although now I've found it I suspect it may become my password manager of choice once I've migrated from 1Password. I can't remember exactly when I started...
More ONLYOFFICE
I'd blogged out using ONLYOFFICE before here, but I never really got around to using it for anything serious and simply played around with it from time to time. After recreating my Docker VM (running Ubuntu 18.04) I had some issues getting it up and running again, so...
Calibre-web
Is brilliant! I thought the last update I made to Calibre Server (from 2.something to 3.8) was good, and I blogged about it (a little) here, but Calibre-web is a whole new gravy! Calibre 2 was pretty basic and allowed you to read books and download them to a capable...
Upgrading Jails
Upgrading jails in FreeNAS has always been a little problematic. It's slightly less so now, but is still fraught with danger and never to be taken lightly. This was going to be the story of one such upgrade (my SSL-Proxy jail) but thinking about it over the past few...
macOS and rsync
Did you know that macOS ships with rsync installed? Yes, but did you know that the version it ships with is 2.6.9? Do you know when that was released? Would you believe me if I said November 2006? It seems a little crazy to be running software from 2006 when there has...
Project Trident
In a previous blog, I'd talked about installing a FreeBSD Desktop environment called TrueOS here and here. I wanted to try something a little different this time, and Project Trident is the latest option from iXsystems, who also make FreeNAS, so this looked like a...
2010 MacBook Air in 2020
I'd put this 'project' to one side whilst FreeNAS0 was being built, but I thought it was time to come back to it in 2020. How will my 2010 MacBook Air fair in 2020? So my first job was to return the MacBook Air to the original state and then give a little more...
A New Year FreeNAS Update
Very much like my update at the beginning of 2019, I go into 2020 with FreeNAS up-to-date. I’m running the latest version (11.2-U7) on both of my machines, all of my jails are all on the latest version of FreeBSD possible (11.3-p5), and they are mostly running the...
Farewell FreeNAS2 (N54L Microserver)
I had to check back through my company accounts to try and work out exactly when I bought my Hewlett Packard N54L Microserver. Turns out it was September 2014, so it’s just over 5 years old. It was bought to replace an N40L which was the first machine I’d run FreeNAS...
FreeNAS0 > FreeNAS1
Almost there... the final piece of the FreeNAS0 jigsaw. Creating the replication of data back from FreeNAS0 > FreeNAS1 and turning FreeNAS1 into the backup. It all reminded me a little of A New Hope, and Darth Vaders quote to Obi-Wan 'When I met you I was but the...
FreeNAS0 – SSD Pool
I'd been thinking about this for some time, as moving my jails and small databases onto an SSD pool should have a decent performance improvement, whilst also reducing the fragmentation on my HD pool. As fortune would have it, I had a couple of old enterprise 480GB...
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