Installing Linux on ZFS
ZFS is a fascinating filesystem that is packed with features. It is mainly geared towards data storage usecases such as NAS or Datacenter usage. One feature however intrigued me for workstation usage: The ability to not only take incremental snapshots but also transfer those over the network to another ZFS filesystem. In this article I will be describing how to install a linux system on top of ZFS. ... read more
Replacing invalid UTF-8 octets
Ever since unicode has become common between systems encoding related problems have largely gone away.Every now and then you receive some UTF-8 encoded strings that have some unexpected code points (e.g. control characters) in them,but that’s fairly easy to solve. Recently however I have stumbled upon something new in an API response that I had never seen before.
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Converting Audible *.aax files
Audible has a great selection of audiobooks that can be downloaded and listened to on the go.
However, there is one big caviat: All audiobooks have DRM on them and can only be listened to
using the o
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Decrypting boot drives remotely using dropbear
Thesedays there is no reason not to encrypt your bootdisk: I would even say that you are acting negligently if you don’t.
There are moments where you cannot be physically present to decrypt a drive:
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Encapsulating nonfree applications using docker
In a previous article I lamented the fact that many modern nonfree applications setup their own package manager repositories instead of submitting
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