Ubuntu 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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
