Elite Dangerous: My 1st Great Explore
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted about Elite Dangerous. A LOT has changed in game since then! For me though it’s passed me by as I’ve been in deep uninhabited space expl... Read More
Customising a WordPress theme
I really like the Aldehyde theme when it updated and it’s standard blog view. Trouble is I couldn’t easily customise it via the GUI so I guess I’ll have to dive into the code. After ... Read More
NetApp C-Mode Cluster creation issues
Converting a 7-Mode 8.2.1 3220 to a C-mode switchless system seemed to be going well until I needed to add the second node. The A head is running fine with the basic configuration and when running clu... Read More
Failing Drive FreeNAS 9.3
This morning I received an email warning that one of my drives is problematic: Device: /dev/ada9, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors So checking the device from the box it doesn’t look goo... Read More
Moved to my own server!
I’ve created a small Digital Ocean Droplet using their pre-built WordPress application image and now that DNS has fully propagated my blog is up and running. I’ve moved from a hosting prov... Read More
FreeNAS and Crashplan
Lots of instructions out there but this is what I needed to do to get it working with FreeNAS 9.3 and Crashplan 3.6.3_1 add tunable: variable = linux_load value = YES type = loader reboot install cras... Read More
Home NAS – FreeNAS
At the moment I use a 4 bay Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ v2 with four 2GB disks in their X-RAID2 setup. It’s basically RAID 5 now but it auto expands as you add disks or swap disks for larger capacity. ... Read More
Python script to change Cleversafe account passwords
Update! I’ve added some pauses between the ssh commands as the script was working faster than the devices, and hopefully made the comments better. This is a simple script to change the pa... Read More