Playing movie with Dragon player on Fedora 28

With fresh installation of Fedora 28 I wasn’t able to play any downloaded Japanese animations with the default movie player – Dragon player. My other machine which also runs Fedora 28 could play the movie fine. Without any doubts I must have installed some additional codecs on that machine. But which codecs? Like last time, Google I must search. I’m going to write this post so I wouldn’t have to repeatedly search for the same solution....

June 24, 2018 · 1 min · 188 words · kenno

Automount External Drive on OS X

At work, we want to backup an external disk that’s connected to the Mac machine using rsnapshot. In order to do that, the external drive needs to be mounted, and this happens when a user logs in to the Mac. The problem is that when nobody logs in, the external drive is not mounted and rsnapshot will fail. The fix should be easy if there is away to mount the external drive without a user logs in....

March 22, 2018 · 1 min · 162 words · kenno

How to extend ZFS partition

I have a FreeBSD server which used to run of a smaller SSD drive. When replaced with a larger capacity SSD by using dd command to clone the disk, there is free space allocated. I want to extend the existing zroot pool to use this space. The following describes how I achieve this with the help of a forum post. Let’s list some information about the zroot pool: root@nas:~ # zfs list zroot NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT zroot 4....

March 11, 2018 · 2 min · 302 words · kenno

How to identify a disk on a Dell server

I have a Dell R730 server at work, which connects to a back-end storage with optical fiber cables. In addition, the server itself also has 6 disks. Two of the disks have already been configured as RAID1 and has the operating system installed on it. Today, I want to configure the remaining 4 disks as RAID10, and setup logical volume on it. The first part was easy. All I had to do was to login to the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC), and create a new Virtual Disk from the 4 physical disks....

January 24, 2018 · 4 min · 765 words · kenno

How to set system locale on Ubuntu 16.04

TLDR; just follow this guide. At home I run DHCP and DNS servers on Odroid U3, a system on a chip (SoC) computer. This allows me to have lots of control over my home network and most importantly – fun. I also run some web sites and Postgresql databases for testing purposes. The SoC computer runs Ubuntu 16.04 as the operating system. Recently, the Odroid U3 died. A coworker also has an SoC, an Odroid XU4....

December 31, 2017 · 2 min · 223 words · kenno