Category: Computers

Here are some speed results for RAM according to Memtest86+ on some machines that I have run. Note that the reported speed varies between runs by a few percent. Thinkpad[...]

Here is a list of the Debian repositories I maintain. All my repositories support the amd64 architecture. Buster I’ve got a bunch of old Buster repositories. Apart from the SE[...]

This article was published in Linux Journal in 2014 [1]. BTRFS and ZFS are two options for protecting against data corruption. Which one should you use, and how should you[...]

Here are the details of some Mon tests I run: DNS The following tests the local DNS cache. I didn’t use example.com in my real tests, I used the domain[...]

This post has a list of educational apps for Android phones and tablets that I have discovered. I can’t claim that each app is the best for it’s purpose, but[...]

Here is a list of Android games that involve thinking: Chess Unblock Me – the classic game of moving blocks to slide a block out Go – Japanese board game[...]

Free root access on a SE Linux machine! To access my Debian play machine ssh to zp7zwyd5t3aju57m.onion as root, the password is “SELINUX“. I give no-one permission to distribute this[...]

It’s a commonly held myth that hardware RAID is unconditionally better than software RAID. That claim is not true in all cases and is particularly wrong at the low end.[...]

Security Context is the SE Linux label for a process, file, or other resource. Each process or object that a process may access has exactly one security context. It has[...]

This document is designed to be a cheat-sheet for MySQL. I don’t plan to cover everything, just most things that a novice MySQL DBA is likely to need often or[...]