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Cheap 2U Case Survives Longer than Most Cockroaches, Morphing Several Times More than Caterpillar
I’ve noticed lately this blog has turned into being less about the info I’m trying to share with people, and more of a collection of me rambling on about the stuff I’ve fixed or put together. I’m not sure what’s wrong with me. I just spent an hour going off on another blog about this…
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Booting Fedora 36 on default btrfs partition structure from the grub prompt
Hey I ran into an issue where I had an unpopulated grub menu on a Fedora 36 Workstation installation. It ended up only booting to the empty menu, but at least I could drop to a prompt to try and figure out how to get through it. The usual booting with a live USB, mounting…
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VMware Upgrade renders Workstation 16.2.1 useless, thanks to Houdini-like disappearance of DLLs
Hey, I just came across an issue many people have been experiencing after upgrading VMware Workstation to 16.2.1 in Windows. It looks like the installer has a bug that deletes two necessary files by accident, and their absence prevents the programs from running, beginning with vmware-tray.exe, which is the precursor to all things Workstation. The…
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Mount Ubuntu 22.04 ZFS partitions using live ISO for disaster recovery
My system runs ZFS and lately has been dropping to the initramfs / busybox prompt on boot. I had a hard time finding a fleshed-out guide on how to mount ZFS in a live environment for performing disaster recovery tasks like chroot and grub repair, so I thought I’d write something up. My system was…
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dpdk 22.03 rpm packages for Fedora 36: a dependency of openvswitch
I meant to post this over a month ago, but got sidetracked, so I’m coming in a little late. Unfortunately, it looks like even though Fedora 36 has officially been released, the dpdk 22.03 rpms still aren’t available. Back when I compiled these, I realized there were no official dpdk 22.03 rpms available in the…
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Run Windows Store (UWP) App on Startup – the EASY way
I am building a dedicated TV viewing VM for HDHomeRun View using Windows IoT 2021 LTSC, so I can watch TV while using a computer running Linux with the smallest possible KVM-QEMU VM I can possibly put together. That’s because, unfortunately, the app I have to use is only available in Windows, and only through…
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Recent posts to message boards
I haven’t had time to write lately, but I have made a few notable posts on message boards I thought I’d include here for reference: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/adding-slog-freenas-will-not-boot-with-m-2-optane-800p-passthrough-in-esxi-6-7-vm.79206/#post-674140 https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Convert-hard-drive-into-VMWare-virtual-machine/m-p/2885130#M173194
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Do you use both Visual Studio Code and Sublime Text 3?
If so, wouldn’t you like both their keyboard shortcuts to be consistent? I personally am using both Visual Studio Code and Sublime Text 3 on my main dev laptop. Once I got used to all the nice features in a pseudo-IDE text editor like VS Code, it became hard to go back to editing things…
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Creating a local HTTPS server for Create-React-App using nginx and certbot in WSL2: Works for BOTH npm start AND npm build
Note: This article has some interesting WSL-centric material, like how to: Set up bridge networking without Hyper-V Find the UWP Ubuntu executable to run Linux commands outside of a WSL terminal Create automatic startup tasks without systemd init system Expose your (domain-enabled) dev environment to certbot/letsencrypt for automatic issuance of SSL certificates Use nginx proxy…
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Easiest WSL2 Bridge Network (without Hyper-V Virtual Network Manager)
I am testing certbot locally with Create-React-App, but I’m using WSL2. Little did I know, the networking for Ubuntu in WSL2 is a little strange when coming from your typical systemd-network, NetworkManager, ifupdown, <insert your favorite networking API> Apparently, the networking is taken care of in the lxssManager service (you can reveal it / restart…