If you have tried looking for a multi-user Homebrew setup, chances are, this article from CodeJam is among your top Google results and you have read it many a time. It shared experiences of using a...
My workstation in my univerity lab has consistently generated some 600 TiB of annual upload across two PT sites. After an upgrade to the room a few months back, it received the most wanted upgrade ...
A.K.A. Practical ZFS application on USTC Mirrors. A writeup of the talk I gave at Nanjing University this August.
I have a habit of pip3 install --user and then expecting these packages under ~/.local/lib/ to be available for my Python scripts whenever I need them. However, with PEP 668 landing in Python 3.12,...
I run a Debian-based software router on my home network. It’s connected to multiple ISPs, so I have some policy routing rules to balance the traffic between them. Some time ago, I noticed that the ...
I moved my soft router (Intel N5105, Debian) from school to home, and at home it’s behind an ONU on bridge mode, so it’ll have to do PPPoE itself.
As part of a planned disk migration, I decided to move my Ubuntu installation from a traditional ext4 setup to ZFS. I did a lot of preparation and research, but things went much smoother than I had...
Recently I relinquished an old domain on my server and had to re-issue a certificate to drop that domain off. Previously it ran Let’s Encrypt’s official client Certbot, set up back in 2019. All my ...