pfSense: restore broken config
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Restoring a configuration file for pfSense when it actually stays in a boot-loop
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2022
Systemd: flushing the DNS cache
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First off I want to say, that Systemd is quite new to me and I always used the old and classic init systems like OpenRC (which is still available on Gentoo – if someone cares about that more than I do).
Systemd: slow reboot and shutdown fixed
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I’m not so into systemd systems and ever avoided systemd whenever possible, but nowadays systems without systemd are very rare. So I’m learning my lessons slowly and with some memory protection (e.g. this article). Sorry, this article is not very well formatted…
My weather station with WeeWX and Netatmo
Describing my approach to properly install WeeWX on a virtual server which creates the weather page and also uploads my weather data to the APRS-IS network.
The new site layout and theme
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This post indicates the introduction of Jekyll in my workflow – regarding my website-publication-workflow.
2021
Show processes that block umount
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A quick oneliner to list running processes that prevent a filesystem from being unmounted. Using
lsof or fuser for this.Running Winlink and VARA on Linux
A quick and dirty summary of my Winlink installation on my linux laptop.
Running N1MM Logger+ on Linux
This is my attempt to properly install N1MM Logger+ on my main computer running Manjaro/Ubuntu Linux.
Win10, Grub 2 and UEFI
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I finally got my broken Grub configuration fixed. Booting Windows from Grub wasn’t very hard back in the days, but the old “version” doesn’t work with the newer UEFI-typed computers. Now… looking at it… it does not look very complicated either ;-)