today's leftovers
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OpenBSD: VM
Using OpenBSD is wonderful but unfortunately people expect you to use zoom, skype etc… So I am using OpenBSD’s hypervisor to run ubuntu linux.
The following steps are trivial if you read the documentation. This is meant as a summary for myself.
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Automation and Hacking Your FreeBSD CLI: Driving automation with machine readable command line output
Although sysadmin tools like awk, sed, and grep can be used to parse this sort of human-friendly output for machine use, doing so is complex and can be fragile. For example, it might not be obvious that in some cases, the eighth column of arp’s output is the keyword “published” instead of that entry’s interface type!
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Using PiBenchmarks.com for SBC disk performance testing
For many years, I've maintained some scripts to do basic disk benchmarking for SBCs, to test 1M and 4K sequential and random access speeds, since those are the two most relevant tests for the Linux workloads I run on my Pis.
I've been using this script for years, and it uses fio and iozone to get the metrics I need.
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Linux Around The World: Scotland
We cover events and user groups that are running in Scotland. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series.
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares a border with England to the southeast. It’s surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south.
The United Kingdom is located off the north-western coast of mainland Europe. It consists of 4 countries: England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
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Mini-PC supports dual 2.5GbE LAN ports and Wi-Fi6/BT 5.2
GMKtec recently launched a Mini-PC based on the 8C/16T 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10875H processor (up to 5.1GHz). The NucBox 12 includes 32GB DRR4, 512GB SSD, SATA support and up to 6x USB 3.2 ports.