Backing up and restoring from XFS volumes

You’ve moved to XFS volumes and low-and-behold your super simple yet extremely important backup process stopped working. Dig a little and you learn that XFS volumes require their own tooling to do backups at the block level so the old “dump/restore” packages you relied on won’t work. That is what happened to me. I do

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Why I Quit Twitter

Social Media started off with such noble aspirations: break down the borders, remove the boundaries and barriers, freedom to talk about anything, turn the tables and get people socializing more, turn those introverts into extroverts, have an open platform to share everything from gossip to news. Fast forward and what have we learned? Anything unregulated

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Windows 10 + Samba as a Domain Controller

If you are running a Samba server as a Domain Controller for your network and a new Windows 10 client workstation prevents you from logging in via the following error: We can’t sign you in with this credential because your domain isn’t available. Make sure your device is connected to your organization’s network and try

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