JRS Systems: the blog

If you need to mount a UFS2 volume directly on Ubuntu–for example, from a snapshot of a XigmaNAS VM using UFS storage beneath a ZFS pool on the VM host–there are a few extra hurdles along the way.

Ubuntu has been getting less usable year by year ever since moving to systemd init.

If you’ve ever been as frustrated as I am at Ubuntu’s–technically, systemd’s–bog stubborn refusal to use the DNS servers you specify in your network configuration, this is the post for you.

It is now Anno Domini 2025, and for some reason, people keep trusting email.

As usual, I’m self-documenting a project while I work on it.

We’ve all noticed that software never seems to get any faster no matter how much faster the hardware gets.

The last several machines I’ve built–and several long-running machines with nothing wrong with them–have suddenly started displaying strange errors regarding Microsoft 365.

If you’re running Windows VMs beneath a Linux KVM host, you’ve very likely been plagued by an annoying issue: they start up with the wrong time by several hours, every time they’re rebooted, no matter what you do.

Recently, I acquired a new client with a massive load of technical debt (in other words: a new client).

I blew several INCREDIBLY frustrating hours trying to troubleshoot issues installing Google Workspace Sync and Microsoft Office 365 on multiple Windows 10 workstations today.