Byte The term byte was coined by Werner Buchholz in June 1956,[4][13][14][b] during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch[15][16][1][13][14][17][18] computer, http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/IBM/Stretch/pdfs/Buchholz_102636426.pdf backup mirror: PLANNING A COMPUTER SYSTEM BROJECT STRETCH Buchholz Campbell_102636426.pdf which had addressing to the bit and […]
if hfs+ is greyed out in gparted there is hfs+ compatibility software missing hint: sudo should be up and running, or gparted won’t be able to open a display (as root) and won’t be able to create partitions (as non […]
to recover the data: how to mount luks2 encrypted volume also check out alternative: GNU Linux – create new encrypted partition harddisk – how to open encrypted harddisk partition possibility: remove harddisk, attach to sata2usb adapter, then mount on different […]
btw: love kvm (used by very large companies) just as virtualbox (oracle) the task: over the years a windows vm is using up massive amounts of precious server harddisk space (snapshots before everyupdate) all the snapshots now add up to […]
update 2022: next to the good old (non-destructive if used correctly) “dd” is still the way to go for benchmarking harddisks under GNU Linux. a simpler one is “gnome-disk-utility” also interesting but not very simple in installation & usage (complicated! […]
apt update apt upgrade is what users do… having no idea of the “heart attack” momentum that is awaiting them X-D after a reboot… and 1min 30sec timeout, the dreaded Control+D give root password prompt appears. “Houston we have a […]
home of git’s git repo: https://git-scm.com/ # to clone git’s git repo git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git # as can be seen there, it is STILL under active development written in primarily in C, with GUI and programming scripts written in Shell […]
(click here for two html embedded test video files, if the user’s browser can playback 264x and 265x) lsb_release -a; # tested with No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Release: 10 Codename: buster […]
for good overview it makes sense to label the harddisk partitions according to functionality (what is their purpose?) GNU Linux bash – how to label partitions tune2fs (xfs & ext4) all infos about one’s harddisk: # tested on: hostnamectl Static […]
mdadm -E /dev/sd[a-z] # -E, –examine # Print contents of the metadata stored on the named device(s). # Note the contrast between –examine and –detail. # –examine applies to devices which are components of an array, while # –detail applies […]
spoiler alert: this is work in progress… was told by Adaptec support to upgrade firmware. did not do that yet – because firmware upgrades on production systems are sometimes very risky endeavors. one of the most important features of a […]
for good overview it makes sense to label the harddisk partitions according to functionality (what is their purpose?) GNU Linux bash – how to label partitions tune2fs (xfs & ext4) … because maybe one wants to read their smart status. […]
monitoring the integrity of a RAID is critical for fast replacement of failed harddisks (ideally one has at least one spare drive already in the machine) if not – it would be great if hard- and software-raid would send a […]
especially in times of EU-GDPR–DSGVO but also for the user’s privacy effectively shredding data is important. if the admin-user wants to wipe-shred-secure-delete entire harddisks look at this article. GNU Linux Debian 10 can do that 🙂 update: 2024: want to […]
problem: manually changing uuids is tidious and might not yield the result you want. unfortunately have not succeeded yet with integrating an old harddisk.vdi (same uuids) back into the template vm (same uuids) – so the recommendation is: reinstall os […]
for good overview it makes sense to label the harddisk partitions according to functionality (what is their purpose?) GNU Linux bash – how to label partitions tune2fs (xfs & ext4) # where is what & updates over changes (usb disk […]
the best about samba: thanks for samba, it provides users with a fast (of course depends also on harddisk speed) rock-solid no-limit-to-maximum-users file-server for maximum file-transfer-and-sharing-and-storage productivity (and they will USE that T: temp drive for EVERYTHING! prepare for TERRABYTES […]
the best about samba: thanks for samba, it provides users with a fast (of course depends also on harddisk speed) rock-solid no-limit-to-maximum-users file-server for maximum file-transfer-and-sharing-and-storage productivity (and they will USE that T: temp drive for EVERYTHING! prepare for TERRABYTES […]
long story short: “The Year 2038 problem is where the Unix time can no longer be stored in a signed 32-bit integer and thus after 19 January 2038 will begin wrapping around as a negative number for representing the number […]
this is a very very basic sequential harddisk write test performed on host and guest. there are multiple ways, how you could improve the performance: Use fixed size disks Allocate RAM and CPUs wisely Install the Guest Additions enable host […]
update: 2022: another x86x odroid is in the making! https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3-plus/ $165.00 Estimated next batch : Middle of January, 2023 the itsec troubles: CPU Intel Celeron Processor J Series is Spectre & Meltdown affected (src) while Spectre & Meltdown based hack […]
kernel 3.10, software raid1 works fine… kernel 4.18, software raid1 seems to work fine… kernel 4.19, software raid1 miserably fails… it starts to sync raid1 discs becomes slower and slower and finally “120 seconds….” then comes to a halt. i […]
update: 2019-02: everything was fine… until you decided to update because of the EthernalBlue exploit THAT ALSO AFFECTS OPEN SOURCE IMPLEMENTATIONS OF SMB 1.0! (WTF!? WHY?), samba now miss behaves on Debian and CentOS. (scroll down for details) EternalBlue, sometimes […]
You might want to checkout very basic sequential write/read benchmark with dd. You might also want to checkout: cross os harddisk benchmark iozone and java. ============ OS and Kernel Linux server4.localdomain 4.15.7 #1 SMP Sun Mar 4 16:43:40 CET 2018 […]
REM delete all mapped network drives net use * /DELETE /Y REM map two drives net use W: “\\192.168.0.233\SharedFolderA” /persistent:yes /user:usernameA PaSsWorDA net use T: “\\192.168.0.231\SharedFolderB” /persistent:yes /user:usernameB PaSsWorDB what you need to know: windows CAN NOT establish two connects […]
update: safety first! when it comes to important files: safety comes first thus recommend to the user that wants to go pro the following backup system: have two complete backups at two different places: backupA: at the company, USB 3.0 […]
While the Supermicro X8DT3 CPU: 2x Xeons with 2x Intel Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz and RAM: 64GB RAM EEC Dual-Powersupply is a great mainboard with java remote web IPMI console that allows you to access the bios and remote […]
You might want to checkout very basic sequential write/read benchmark with dd. You might want to checkout iozone in c harddisk benchmark. this benchmark is especially useful if you need to measure how java is performing on your harddisk/filesystem/os (linux […]
yes ext3 is old – but it works and you can undelete files – which can come in handy – because nobody is perfect – except god – and nobody should assume he/she is god. it supports filesystems up to […]
the best about samba: thanks for samba, it provides users with a fast (of course depends also on harddisk speed) rock-solid no-limit-to-maximum-users file-server for maximum file-transfer-and-sharing-and-storage productivity (and they will USE that T: temp drive for EVERYTHING! prepare for TERRABYTES […]