Ubuntu - James Ridgway - James Ridgway

Restoring a ZFS Pool with a Faulted Device

Losing data sucks. If you've ever accidentally deleted something or had a hard disk fail, you'll know what I mean. This week, one of the disks in my HP Microserver failed. Fortunately, I haven't lost any data because I run the disk cluster in

Productivity

Using a Stream Deck for productivity - a software developers solution

I recently purchased an Elgato Stream Deck. As the name suggests, a Stream Deck is geared towards people who stream content on YouTube or Twitch. I fall into neither of these camps, nor am I setting out to become a streamer. Streamers will often setup their Stream Deck so that

Productivity

Tools for Productivity

Productivity comes down to the tools you have and how you use them. These are the tools I use on a regular basis. Productivity is about optimisation and efficiency, and the tools you use can get you there! There is something immensely satisfying when you’re sat working with someone

Security

Simplify SSH with SSH Config Files

Simplify your SSH commands with SSH configuration files. For years I use to SSH into machines the hard way, specifying every argument, every time: ssh -A -p 9898 james@core.example.net That's not too horrendous, but you'll find yourself searching through your shell history to

Gnome 3

Slim application title bars for Gnome 3

The appearance of windows in Gnome can be tweaked by applying custom CSS. Here is a hack for slimming down the height of application title bars. Before Gnome title bars are fairly chunky when you compare them to what you get in other environments such as Cinnamon, Unity or macOS.

Ubuntu

List SSH hosts from your SSH config

Use an alias to quickly list all SSH hosts defined in your SSH config. I use an SSH config file to manage the details of all the SSH hosts I connect to. Sometimes I need to audit the hosts in my SSH config. This can be done using the following:

Security

Encrypting a Dedicated Server (Ubuntu)

Encrypting an Ubuntu Server that you have physical access is a fairly easy and straight forward process. But what happens if you don't have physical access to the server? How do you enter the passphrase to unlock the drive during boot? Provided you can boot the server from

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