Paul's Site of Stuff

Steps required to view the status of a ZFS ARC cache in htop.

Ever since I [finally] got an IPv6 range for my home/business internet connection a few years back I have struggled to be able to access Microsoft services - either at all, or heavily delayed.

After migrating a client's file server from Windows to a FreeBSD samba share, they have noticed some files when opened are not prompting other users to open the file in "Read-Only" mode.

Having recently switched my daily driver computers to Alpine Linux, and the performance and computing enjoyment gains being fantastic, I have found the performance on some applications, Zola specifically, can be quite drasticly poor.

Even when GPT (GUID Partition Table, not the slop thing) didn't exist, I never thought I'd need to deal with and handle the limit of a 2 terabyte partition size on an MBR/DOS formatted disk, it just seems such a huge size it would never be a factor.

What's the deal with Calendar Categories?

Often, when I'm consulting with a client and a third-party service provider, I may have the need to bring up a security concern which should be considered, or eliminated, surrounding what the third-party service provider aims to implement.

How I learned to stop worrying and love WhatsApp... not really.

Here are some notes and pictures of how I made a working, automated hydro-electric dam in Luanti.

I've noticed a few times recently my Forgejo server has been triggering alerts on my monitoring systems that is isn't responding as fast as it normally should be.

Recently I've started to migrate some of my VPS's to Netcup as I have found their offerings more performant, and less expensive, than other VPS providers.

I've come across many articles about how to join a linux system to a Microsoft Active Directory domain and they all work more or less with some tweaking.

About 5 years years ago, during a security sweep of a new "app" a client had started using, I discovered the hosting company's website had a robots.txt giving the paths of many pages on their website containing sensitive information.

A simple, portable, wrapper for the borg backup and restic utilities written in Nim.

TootInstall Concept Status of this Memo This memo defines a conceptual protocol for software build and install scripts for varying platforms published via Fediverse (ActivityPub i.e Mastodon, et al) posts.

A simple battery monitor tool that can notify you on battery status changes for FreeBSD.

Your Friendly Error Code Index Inspirational instructions for dealing with unhelpful error codes ERROR -41: Failure!

I recently had a issue logged by a client where a room calendar in Microsoft Exchange 365, when invited to a meeting, shows the organizer's name in the subject instead of the actual subject.

Gemini.css is an almost classless CSS style for making Gemini-like HTML pages.

'/nɛmɪnaɪ/' Nem-in-eye Nemini is a simple Gemini server with static file serving, virtual host and alias support.

This is a story all about how Your query got twist-turned upside down And I'd like to show an answer just sit right there It might not be fully accurate but I don't care

Hello.

[Verifying my keyoxide cryptographic key: 85633E30514CC1932E4268460ED12CF710BC42CA]

SELECT haiku FROM tableHaikus WHERE LEFT(name, 3) LIKE 'SQL';

'Twas the morning after the fortieth And all through the house Not a creature was stirring Except the one making the coffee and Alkaseltzer 'Twas the morning after the morning after the fortieth And all through the house The creatures were starting to stir

These are a selection of independant tools for displaying various information about system status in dmenu.

This is the easiest thing in the world.

I run the thisisnotmy.email email service.

A simple, configurable autodiscover/autoconfig service for distributed and self-hosted services.

In the interest of sharing interesting information, I thought I'd create this page to list some of my favourite software packages and tools.

St Skeletor's Day February 15th Every Year

Rate Stuff with Ross, quite simple.

A local IT business website detailing available services.

Simple single page website for a local accountancy business.

A website directory of all words that can be associated with their letters by not sounding as their corresponding letter should do.

If you have a bread maker: add the water, salt, sugar, herbs, oil, flour and yeast/sourdough starter IN THAT ORDER to the bread maker's container.

Starting life as a (sort of inappropriate) parody of a certain popular dating website the geese website was made as a bit of fun and to please minor obsession with geese.

Just a very silly website with an animated face making sounds.

A spoof single page animation website of a secret society dedicated to finding all lost tin openers.

Hello, This is my website which will contain my general thoughts, utterings, maybe my opinions, possibly some tech stuff I find interesting, some of the recipes I cook and want to remember the ingredients of and a bit of artwork I draw for fun and I in no…