<p>Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared</p><p>Update: This post has been updated to include Docker benchmarks and a comparison of container overhead versus FreeBSD Jails and illumos Zones.</p><p><a href="https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19</span><span class="invisible">/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/itnotes/" rel="tag">#ITNotes</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> <a href="/tags/illumos/" rel="tag">#illumos</a> <a href="/tags/jail/" rel="tag">#jail</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#netbsd</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#openbsd</a> <a href="/tags/ownyourdata/" rel="tag">#ownyourdata</a> <a href="/tags/server/" rel="tag">#server</a> <a href="/tags/smartos/" rel="tag">#smartos</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#sysadmin</a> <a href="/tags/zoneshosting/" rel="tag">#zoneshosting</a></p>
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<p>The slides, the video, and the text behind my presentation at EuroBSDCon 2024 - 'Why and how we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs.'</p><p><a href="https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03</span><span class="invisible">/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/itnotes/" rel="tag">#ITNotes</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a> <a href="/tags/it/" rel="tag">#IT</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a> <a href="/tags/eurobsdcon/" rel="tag">#EuroBSDCon</a> <a href="/tags/ebc24/" rel="tag">#EBC24</a> <a href="/tags/eurobsdcon24/" rel="tag">#EuroBSDCon24</a> <a href="/tags/eurobsdcon2024/" rel="tag">#EuroBSDCon2024</a> <a href="/tags/notehub/" rel="tag">#NoteHUB</a></p>
<p>I published “How to Quit Using the Annoying Windows 11 Context Menu🍔”<br><a href="https://www.ii.com/use-win10-context-menu/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ii.com/use-win10-context-menu/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ii.com/use-win10-context-m</span><span class="invisible">enu/</span></a><br><a href="/tags/cli/" rel="tag">#CLI</a> <a href="/tags/productivity/" rel="tag">#Productivity</a> <a href="/tags/gtd/" rel="tag">#GTD</a> <a href="/tags/windows/" rel="tag">#Windows</a> <a href="/tags/registry/" rel="tag">#Registry</a> <a href="/tags/registryeditor/" rel="tag">#RegistryEditor</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a> <a href="/tags/annoyance/" rel="tag">#Annoyance</a> <a href="/tags/annoyances/" rel="tag">#Annoyances</a> <a href="/tags/powershell/" rel="tag">#PowerShell</a> <a href="/tags/regedit/" rel="tag">#regedit</a> <a href="/tags/windows10/" rel="tag">#Windows10</a> <a href="/tags/win10/" rel="tag">#Win10</a> <a href="/tags/windows11/" rel="tag">#Windows11</a> <a href="/tags/win11/" rel="tag">#Win11</a> <a href="/tags/infiniteink/" rel="tag">#InfiniteInk</a> <a href="/tags/byℵ/" rel="tag">#Byℵ</a> <a href="/tags/bynm/" rel="tag">#ByNM</a></p>
<p>I published “6+ Ways to Quit Using the Annoying Windows 11 Context Menu🍔”<br><a href="https://www.ii.com/6plus-ways-to-use-win10-context-menu-in-win11/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ii.com/6plus-ways-to-use-win10-context-menu-in-win11/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ii.com/6plus-ways-to-use-w</span><span class="invisible">in10-context-menu-in-win11/</span></a><br><a href="/tags/productivity/" rel="tag">#Productivity</a> <a href="/tags/windows/" rel="tag">#Windows</a> <a href="/tags/debloat/" rel="tag">#Debloat</a> <a href="/tags/tweak/" rel="tag">#Tweak</a> <a href="/tags/registry/" rel="tag">#Registry</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a> <a href="/tags/cli/" rel="tag">#CLI</a> <a href="/tags/annoyance/" rel="tag">#Annoyance</a> <a href="/tags/annoyances/" rel="tag">#Annoyances</a> <a href="/tags/powershell/" rel="tag">#PowerShell</a> <a href="/tags/windows11/" rel="tag">#Windows11</a> <a href="/tags/win11/" rel="tag">#Win11</a> <a href="/tags/win11sucks/" rel="tag">#Win11Sucks</a> <a href="/tags/infiniteink/" rel="tag">#InfiniteInk</a> <a href="/tags/byℵ/" rel="tag">#Byℵ</a> <a href="/tags/bynm/" rel="tag">#ByNM</a></p>
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<p>What command do you prefer for switching to root?</p><p>Edit: I realize now that I forgot a looot of options. So many ways to switch to a root shell. If only I could add more options to a mastodon poll in an edit...</p><p><a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#sysadmin</a> <a href="/tags/sudo/" rel="tag">#sudo</a></p>
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<p>Hey, I'm looking for resources to get better at Linux administration - preferably servers... I have basic knowledge - even if I use Linux almost every day.</p><p>Do you have book / website / video recomendations?</p><p>Thanks for the help.</p><p><a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#sysadmin</a></p>
<p>Average YouTuber: "My mobile carrier is terrible today; I'm only getting 200 Mbps! How am I supposed to survive?"</p><p>Me: "Hey, I get 20 Mbps on my phone's hotspot! I can work just fine!"</p><p><a href="/tags/fun/" rel="tag">#Fun</a> <a href="/tags/it/" rel="tag">#IT</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a></p>
<p>Heyho, I'm seeking an <a href="/tags/internship/" rel="tag">#Internship</a> as <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#Sysadmin</a> from Sep 2025 to March 2026, ideally in or around <a href="/tags/düsseldorf/" rel="tag">#Düsseldorf</a>, but I'm open to remote. I'm passionate about Linux and I'd like to explore the <a href="/tags/devops/" rel="tag">#DevOps</a> route too. See my website <a href="https://larmart.de" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>larmart.de</a> for contact infos and a first impression. - The costs of the Internship are covered completely, it’s a free opportunity to work in a passionate and young Linux fellow. Thank you guys, boost is appreciated 🙏🏻❤️🐧<br><a href="/tags/fedihire/" rel="tag">#FediHire</a> <a href="/tags/getfedihired/" rel="tag">#GetFediHired</a> <a href="/tags/jobs/" rel="tag">#jobs</a> <a href="/tags/jobsearch/" rel="tag">#jobsearch</a></p>
Edited 270d ago
Under the hood update!<br><br>I’ve finally retired the old cron + sh setup for the weather bots. It served us well, but it had a major flaw: if I rebooted the server while it was posting, the job just died halfway. If the server was down during a scheduled slot, the forecast was lost forever.<br><br>So, I wrote a custom Python daemon to run inside the FreeBSD Jails.<br><br><p>It’s stateful now. If a crash happens at city 15 of 50, it resumes exactly there on reboot.</p><p>If the server naps/is rebooting during a scheduled run, the bot realizes it missed a slot and runs immediately upon waking up.</p><a href="/tags/fedimeteo/" rel="tag">#FediMeteo</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a> <a href="/tags/python/" rel="tag">#Python</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/coding/" rel="tag">#Coding</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosted/" rel="tag">#SelfHosted</a> <a href="/tags/ownyourdata/" rel="tag">#OwnYourData</a> <a href="/tags/staytuned/" rel="tag">#StayTuned</a><br>
<p>Current job is killing me with the stress. I don't want the last thing I see to be a Teams invite.</p><p>What are some job hunting resources for remote tech jobs these days? </p><p><a href="/tags/getfedihired/" rel="tag">#getfedihired</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#sysadmin</a> <a href="/tags/stress/" rel="tag">#stress</a></p>
<p>A <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a> / <a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#MastoAdmin</a> Question for folks </p><p>Has anyone used mikrotik hardware in anger / in production? </p><p>I've had enough now of my Unifi gear causing problems, this is the second gateway I've purchased which exhibits these random lock-ups / crashes and I'm very much over it so am looking at alternatives and mikrotik continues to be one that looks sensible. </p><p>Just curious if anyone has much experience using it hands on?</p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://mstdn.feddit.social/@admin/115995995293010716" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mstdn.feddit.social/@admin/115995995293010716"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.feddit.social/@admin/115</span><span class="invisible">995995293010716</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/board" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>board</span></a></span> 感谢香油们的捧场，本站用户已经增加到了13人，为了扫除香油们注册时的障碍，暂时完全开放注册： <a href="https://pixelfed.feddit.social/register" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pixelfed.feddit.social/register"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pixelfed.feddit.social/registe</span><span class="invisible">r</span></a></p><p>下面是Jay's Pixelfed的使用指南，本帖非AI生成，完全由人工完成，请放心食用：</p><p>⚠️关于无法添加个人资料（抱歉打扰了）⚠️<br>1. 由于开启了开放注册，本站没有提示需要验证邮箱<br>2. 登录后请立即前往 <a href="https://pixelfed.feddit.social/settings/email" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pixelfed.feddit.social/settings/email"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pixelfed.feddit.social/setting</span><span class="invisible">s/email</span></a> 确保你的邮箱已被验证；<br>3. 如果没有，请发送邮件并验证，否则将无法添加个人资料和使用本站<br>参考：<a href="https://mstdn.feddit.social/@admin/116000420987312005" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mstdn.feddit.social/@admin/116000420987312005"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.feddit.social/@admin/116</span><span class="invisible">000420987312005</span></a></p><p>关于Pixelfed：<br>本站主页：<a href="https://pixelfed.feddit.social" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>pixelfed.feddit.social</a><br>Pixelfed的目的是专注于图像和视频，致力于“探索和分享精美照片和视频”；<br>Pixelfed拥有全联邦宇宙第二大实例，由@dansup开发，他也是fedidb.com和Loops的开发者；<br>Pixelfed拥有14万月活跃用户，是全联邦宇宙No.2，仅次于No.1的Mastodon的104万。</p><p>关于作品集：My Portfolio<br>1. 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Pronouns可以多选<br>4. 填写完需要Submit保存修改</p><p>关于Spam：<br>1. 如果你被提示“You recent post has been unlisted.”，可能是由于你的帖子含有链接或者有类似“💓”的暗示性emoji；<br>2. 目前已暂时关闭Spam detection。</p><p>信息源：<br>Tag：<br>1. 如果你希望你的帖子被同好看到，请给你的帖子打上合理的Tag<br>2. 如果你想看到同好的帖子，请搜索并关注Tag，比如Dogs、Cats<br>3. 管理关注的Tag： <a href="https://pixelfed.feddit.social/settings/relationships/home?mode=hashtags&page=1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pixelfed.feddit.social/settings/relationships/home?mode=hashtags&page=1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pixelfed.feddit.social/setting</span><span class="invisible">s/relationships/home?mode=hashtags&page=1</span></a><br>4. 关注转发机器人也是一个快速丰富时间线的好选择：<br>摄影：<span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@photography" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>photography</span></a></span><br>宠物：<span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@pets" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pets</span></a></span><br>宇宙：<span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@space" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>space</span></a></span></p><p>小技巧：<br>1. 点击头像——Appearance——Dark Mode更护眼<br>Creat New Post：<br>2. 发帖时可以通过Tag People标记某人，他们会收到通知<br>3. 可以在编辑帖子时修改Audience，选择Public、Unlisted、FollowersOnly，<br>4. 可以Add Location添加地址（支持中国但是不推荐）<br>5. 可以在Advance dSettings开启Turn off commenting关闭评论区<br>6. 修改本地语言：<a href="https://pixelfed.feddit.social/i/web/language" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pixelfed.feddit.social/i/web/language"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pixelfed.feddit.social/i/web/l</span><span class="invisible">anguage</span></a> （遗憾的是Pixelfed-Glitch不支持中文界面）</p><p>隐私：<br>来到：<a href="https://pixelfed.feddit.social/settings/security" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pixelfed.feddit.social/settings/security"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pixelfed.feddit.social/setting</span><span class="invisible">s/security</span></a><br>1. 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Photo reblogs only：主页只显示转发</p><p>兼容性：<br>1. 如果你的帖子显示No—Preview，请等待并刷新，如果还是无法显示，请复制你的帖子内容重新发布（罕见，但是万一出现，十分抱歉）；<br>2. 视频MOV请在Apple设备的相册上传；<br>3. 由于Mastodon限制，Mastodon一次性最多看到4张图片，这是Mastodon API决定的，但是Pixelfed用户仍能发送、看到最多9张图片。</p><p>管理与发帖：<br>1. 日常发帖推荐使用Phanpy：<a href="https://dev.phanpy.social" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>dev.phanpy.social</a><br>2. 管理账户推荐直接登录实例： <a href="https://pixelfed.feddit.social" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>pixelfed.feddit.social</a></p><p>Server Rules：<br>1. 未经他人明确同意，请勿发布或分享他人的个人信息<br>2. 任何仇恨言论、威胁或任何形式的欺凌都不被容忍<br>3. 禁止直接发生露骨内容，请使用内容警告功能<br>4. 禁止任何二/三次元的儿童色情内容<br>5. 禁止任何血腥暴力内容</p><p>管理信息：<br>1. 添加了服务器横幅<br>2. 完善了更多的服务器配置<br>3. 暂时开放注册<br>4. 如有问题，请直接在评论区留言，记得删除[@]board[@]ovo.st~</p><p><a href="/tags/pixelfed/" rel="tag">#pixelfed</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#sysadmin</a> <a href="/tags/portfolio/" rel="tag">#Portfolio</a> <a href="/tags/fedivese/" rel="tag">#Fedivese</a> <a href="/tags/长毛象安利大会/" rel="tag">#长毛象安利大会</a></p>
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<p>Hey <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#sysadmin</a> folks! Is "short stroking" a hard drive still a thing?</p><p>For the youngsters: this was when you used only the fastest part of a hard drive, leaving the slow parts of the disk empty. Short stroking improved spinning rust performance.</p><p>I haven't heard of this in years, and it seems that with LBA abstracting the drive innards would eliminate the benefits. (You'd still get extra spare blocks for when the drive starts failing, sure.)</p>
<p>Very pleased to present another round of Tunnel and Fortress, live classes in the design, deployment & administration of self-hosted, tightly secured & sovereign server infrastructure. </p><p>The classes draw from 2 decades deploying dozens of servers & services for orgs & groups, big & small, & often with powerful adversaries.</p><p>I want to teach you to be able to do the same, to get the communities you care about off Big Tech.</p><p><a href="https://video.nikau.io/w/9RVN23fgj7AeMVmVrr8so9" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="video.nikau.io/w/9RVN23fgj7AeMVmVrr8so9"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">video.nikau.io/w/9RVN23fgj7AeM</span><span class="invisible">VmVrr8so9</span></a></p><p><a href="https://learn.nikau.io/courses/course-v1:Nikau+TF2+2025_T4/about" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="learn.nikau.io/courses/course-v1:Nikau+TF2+2025_T4/about"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">learn.nikau.io/courses/course-</span><span class="invisible">v1:Nikau+TF2+2025_T4/about</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/exitbigtech/" rel="tag">#exitbigtech</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#sysadmin</a></p>
<p>I turned a tiny <a href="/tags/mac/" rel="tag">#Mac</a> mini into my own <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> server—secure, low‑maintenance, and running like a dream. Here’s the full build, from <a href="/tags/docker/" rel="tag">#Docker</a> to <a href="/tags/cloudflare/" rel="tag">#Cloudflare</a> Tunnel, and why <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a> doesn’t have to be a headache.</p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="/tags/homelab/" rel="tag">#HomeLab</a> <a href="/tags/devops/" rel="tag">#DevOps</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a></p><p><a href="https://phoenixtrap.com/2025/09/21/my-mini-mastodon-server/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="phoenixtrap.com/2025/09/21/my-mini-mastodon-server/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phoenixtrap.com/2025/09/21/my-</span><span class="invisible">mini-mastodon-server/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social</span></a></p>
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<p>I just published “I Quit Updating Hugo or: Why I Use Hugo v0.122.0” at<br><a href="https://www.ii.com/hugo-update-nope/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.ii.com/hugo-update-nope/</a><br>As always, feedback is welcome!<br><a href="/tags/infiniteink/" rel="tag">#InfiniteInk</a> <a href="/tags/gohugo/" rel="tag">#GoHugo</a> <a href="/tags/hugo/" rel="tag">#Hugo</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/webdev/" rel="tag">#WebDev</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a> <a href="/tags/ssg/" rel="tag">#SSG</a> <a href="/tags/byℵ/" rel="tag">#Byℵ</a> <a href="/tags/bynm/" rel="tag">#ByNM</a></p>
<p>Here is the CPU usage graph for the last 24 hours of the FediMeteo VM. A full 24 hours, during which a huge number of people are connecting, helped by the traction gained from being among the top stories on Hacker News and Lobsters, as well as the many shares across the Fediverse.</p><p>RAM usage? Active, around 450 MB. Then there is cache, ARC, and so on. But in practice, zero swap in use after days of uptime.</p><p>39 jails running, 39 snac instances, nginx serving the homepage, and HAProxy. HAProxy caching enabled. ZFS snapshots every 15 minutes, backups via zfs send and receive every hour. The same hourly schedule applies to the recalculation of cities, countries, and followers for the homepage.</p><p>All of this on a 4 euro per month FreeBSD VM.</p><p>If anyone has doubts about the quality and efficiency of FreeBSD, this is the data to show.</p><p><a href="/tags/fedimeteo/" rel="tag">#FediMeteo</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a> <a href="/tags/it/" rel="tag">#IT</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a></p>
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<p>A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.</p><p>I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an alert.</p><p>The office was closed for the holidays, but I contacted the IT manager anyway. He was home sick with a serious family issue, but he got moving.</p><p>To make a long story short: the company deals in gold and precious metals. They have an underground bunker with two-meter thick walls. They were targeted by a professional gang. They used a tactic seen in similar hits: they identify the main power line, tamper with it at night, and send a massive voltage spike through it.</p><p>The goal is to fry all alarm and surveillance systems. Even if battery-backed, they rarely survive a surge like that. Thieves count on the fact that during holidays, owners are away and fried systems can't send alerts. Monitoring companies often have reduced staff and might not notice the "silence" immediately.</p><p>That is exactly what happened here. But there is a "but": they didn't account for my Uptime Kuma instance monitoring their MikroTik router, installed just weeks ago. Since it is an external check, it flagged the lack of response from all IPs without needing an internal alert to be triggered from the inside.</p><p>The team rushed to the site and found the mess. Luckily, they found an emergency electrical crew to bypass the damage and restore the cameras and alarms. They swapped the fried server UPS with a spare and everything came back up.</p><p>The police warned that the chances of the crew returning the next night to "finish" the job were high, though seeing the systems back online would likely make them move on. They also warned that thieves sometimes break in just to destroy servers to wipe any video evidence.</p><p>Nothing happened in the end. But in the meantime, I had to sync all their data off-site (thankfully they have dual 1Gbps FTTH), set up an emergency cluster, and ensure everything was redundant.</p><p>Never rely only on internal monitoring. Never.</p><p><a href="/tags/it/" rel="tag">#IT</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a> <a href="/tags/horrorstories/" rel="tag">#HorrorStories</a> <a href="/tags/ithorrorstories/" rel="tag">#ITHorrorStories</a> <a href="/tags/monitoring/" rel="tag">#Monitoring</a></p>
<p>I just updated “Five Ways to Use the Windows 10 Context Menu in Windows 11”<br>by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@nm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nm</span></a></span><br><a href="https://www.ii.com/use-win10-context-menu-in-win11/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ii.com/use-win10-context-menu-in-win11/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ii.com/use-win10-context-m</span><span class="invisible">enu-in-win11/</span></a><br><a href="/tags/cli/" rel="tag">#CLI</a> <a href="/tags/registryeditor/" rel="tag">#RegistryEditor</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a> <a href="/tags/annoyance/" rel="tag">#Annoyance</a> <a href="/tags/annoyances/" rel="tag">#Annoyances</a> <a href="/tags/powershell/" rel="tag">#PowerShell</a><br><a href="/tags/windows/" rel="tag">#Windows</a> <a href="/tags/windows10/" rel="tag">#Windows10</a> <a href="/tags/win10/" rel="tag">#Win10</a> <a href="/tags/windows11/" rel="tag">#Windows11</a> <a href="/tags/win11/" rel="tag">#Win11</a><br><a href="/tags/byℵ/" rel="tag">#Byℵ</a> <a href="/tags/bynm/" rel="tag">#ByNM</a> <a href="/tags/infiniteink/" rel="tag">#InfiniteInk</a></p>
<p>They say AI isn’t profitable. That’s not true. <br>Twice just this past week, I’ve been contacted and paid to fix problems caused by developers who relied on AI to configure servers.</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/it/" rel="tag">#IT</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a></p>
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<p>Dang near every jail on my <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> server needs either pgsql or mariadb.</p><p>I could stop running databases everywhere by building a database jail, eliminating many small points of small failures by implementing a single point of complete failure.</p><p>Which is better? All I know is whatever choice wins, I will lose. <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#sysadmin</a></p>
<p>You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled! <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/mstdn.social/blobcatpeek.png" class="emoji" alt=":blobcatpeek:" title=":blobcatpeek:"> </p><p><a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/azure/" rel="tag">#Azure</a> <a href="/tags/outage/" rel="tag">#Outage</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a></p>
<p>Updated my DRAFT of “Five Ways to Use the Windows 10 Context Menu in Windows 11”<br><a href="https://www.ii.com/use-win10-context-menu-in-win11/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ii.com/use-win10-context-menu-in-win11/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ii.com/use-win10-context-m</span><span class="invisible">enu-in-win11/</span></a><br><a href="/tags/cli/" rel="tag">#CLI</a> <a href="/tags/productivity/" rel="tag">#Productivity</a> <a href="/tags/gtd/" rel="tag">#GTD</a> <a href="/tags/windows/" rel="tag">#Windows</a> <a href="/tags/registry/" rel="tag">#Registry</a> <a href="/tags/registryeditor/" rel="tag">#RegistryEditor</a> <a href="/tags/regedit/" rel="tag">#regedit</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a> <a href="/tags/annoyance/" rel="tag">#Annoyance</a> <a href="/tags/annoyances/" rel="tag">#Annoyances</a> <a href="/tags/hacking/" rel="tag">#Hacking</a> <a href="/tags/powershell/" rel="tag">#PowerShell</a> <a href="/tags/windows10/" rel="tag">#Windows10</a> <a href="/tags/win10/" rel="tag">#Win10</a> <a href="/tags/windows11/" rel="tag">#Windows11</a> <a href="/tags/win11/" rel="tag">#Win11</a><br><a href="/tags/byℵ/" rel="tag">#Byℵ</a> <a href="/tags/bynm/" rel="tag">#ByNM</a> <a href="/tags/infiniteink/" rel="tag">#InfiniteInk</a></p>
