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It’s pronounced ‘cutie’, bee tee doubleyou Context Since my last post on doing video work in Blender, which posited a system for generating text objects… Read More »Highlight Videos With Blender: Quicker Text Editing
going public Context Download (direct link to JSON) This file can be imported via Dashboards ? + Import (on the left hand panel), then ‘Upload… Read More »Monitoring ZFS with InfluxDB & Grafana: Publishing and Reflection (Part 5)
getting it out the door Context Adding a Variable for Bucket Selection In Part 3 we updated the dashboard’s variables for host and poolname to… Read More »Monitoring ZFS with InfluxDB & Grafana: Tidying Up (Part 4)
one panel at a time Context Continuing Dashboard Port to V2 Variables We haven’t yet touched these – as they can be filled in manually… Read More »Monitoring ZFS with InfluxDB & Grafana: Adapting Panels to flux (Part 3)
learning on the job Other Posts in This Series Context I recently set up telegraf to collect metrics from a host running proxmox using (among… Read More »Monitoring ZFS with InfluxDB & Grafana: Graph Time (Part 2)
the hourglass of time runs on Context I had use for an animated gif of an hourglass in a video — I had a pause… Read More »Making an animated gif transparent + recolouring + adding shadow using imagemagick
quick or slow Context + zpool iostat Recently I noticed some high IO delay on a proxmox host: Naturally I turned to resident ZFS expert… Read More »Monitoring ZFS Latencies in Proxmox (Part 1)
☑? ? ? (see footnote) tl;dr: there are two simple js / jQuery command you can run in the browser dev console to quickly uncheck… Read More »Speeding up unchecking the ‘notify subscribers’ button in YouTube
You can’t deny me! tl;dr: check permissions match user id Context I updated my self-hosted bitlbee docker instance as I was getting repeatedly disconnected with… Read More »bitlbee: “Error loading user config: Permission denied”
Output switching We’ve been putting together an HTPC using a Dell Wyse 3040 thin client PC. We’re using Arch Linux as an OS, and installed… Read More »Turning a Dell Wyse 3040 into an HTPC (Part 5)