Call to action What would you do with 10U of collocation space for free? if you were me, what’s the best/most interesting/most impactful outcome for this rack space? Part 1: The Pitch In February 2025, I moved into a half rack with 20U of capacity in a closed/private and secured […]
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Hey Mastodon admins,I’ve noticed lots of errors in the logs and sidekiq dead queue similar to a failure for pushrelay-mast1.your.org. These come from failed mobile/web notification services which are registered for your users… and they fail repeatively! Note: if you know who runs/ran the failing push services, maybe give them […]
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Solution The solution looks to be disabling two features (TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) or GSO (Generic Segmentation Offload)) using ethtool. You can add this to your /etc/network/interfaces as a post-up command to maintain this over reboots. References
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Why does Microsoft do this? When did this start? Solution: Removing the Recovery Partition Bonus: Restoring the Recovery Partition I generally don’t bother with this because i’m running VMs and take snapshots/backups.. but if you must <TBD>
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I’ve recently experienced a number of errors in my proxmox server related to the NVME drives. After looking into this. I’ve found a series of articles and posts about this issue: and sadly none of these posts seem to have a solid answer…. and even worse, most replies are just […]
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I grabbed 4 1TB Kingston KC3000 NVME disks, and as I plan on using them in a proxmox server. I’ve investigated their LBA (Logical block addressing) format support to gain better performance by using the larger native block size. Bonus fact: Some NVME drives also have LBA formats that support […]
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I’ve recently started building a 2U rack server, and went to install the 20pin TPM that I had spare. While the unit worked fine, I noticed the firmware was the original/oldest possible firmware version. Finding the latest firmware releases The Trusted Computing Group has a list of verified firmware releases […]
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