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)
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”
Beware, sharks It all started with this: It’s a relatively innocuous photo. But it cost me the best part of a day. How could that… Read More »How photos killed a Xen DomU: A Cautionary Tale
Leaving a legacy tl;dr: Trying to install 22.04 on a Wyse 7020 in anything but ‘Legacy’ boot mode left me unable to boot; switching to… Read More »PSA: Wyse 7020 Only Boots Ubuntu 22.04 In Legacy Mode
tl;dr: Update pulseeffects to 4.8.7 (via PKGbuild if necessary) I use the legacy version of easyeffects, called pulseeffects; I use it mostly to attenuate bass… Read More »[solved] pulseeffects: GLib-GIO-ERROR: The schema default value for key (…) was rejected
I do mean quick tl;dr: I use a function to quickly import a region: imp filename; drag a region, done. See below for details. Hey… Read More »Quick tip: Region Screenshot from CLI