I love ZFS, and you should too. It's a filesystem with built-in support for encryption, compression, deduplication, RAID, and a whole host of other features. When I first encountered ZFS, it was as a result of working with TrueNAS and Proxmox systems. While I understood the basics, there
Internet Explorer just won't die will it? Believe it or not, even if you completely uninstall Internet Explorer, it still sticks around as a web view for a variety of random applications. Recently I upgraded our domain controllers to Windows 2025, and while I was busy breaking things
Since, as a distinguished person of intellect and esteem, you're undoubtedly using Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) as your hypervisor, it's safe to assume you are also using Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) for... well, backups. Unfortunately, while S3 storage integration is on the roadmap for PBS, currently
Do you have a Windows environment? Are you one of us ancient dinosaurs who still have on-prem servers running Active Directory? You may, on occasion, run into an issue where your servers seem to believe they are on a Private or Public network, instead of the Domain network. This can
Let's imagine a world... ...where I had a Windows file share called Share with several hundred folders in it, each of which should only be accessible to one security group. To a new staff member just trying to find the files shared with their building, this could be
For those who've been living under an even bigger rock than myself (at least since 2022) Valve, the company who owns the STEAM digital marketplace for games, and is responsible for continuing to not release Half-Life 3, Portal 3, or Left 4 Dead 3, released a full-blown handheld
You should definitely be using encryption wherever possible. That includes encrypting data at-rest. If you are an organization using Active Directory and any number of Windows client machines, you're going to want to make sure that if those devices are lost or stolen, the data on them is
I LOVE DEBIAN! Debian -- Reasons to use DebianReasons to use Debian Debian is a stable linux distribution, and is used as a foundation for most of the biggest linux distributions on the planet (including Ubuntu, Proxmox and TrueNAS). Just about every linux application ever made comes in .deb format
In case you haven't heard, the team behind the world's best free & open-source hypervisor Proxmox has released something really cool... It's called Proxmox Datacenter Manager. Why is it cool? Well, previously the only way to manager multiple Proxmox servers was to put them
If you haven't yet heard of it, Zoneminder is a super cool open-source application for recording IP camera footage. It works with just about every IP camera in existence, and it costs exactly $0 (assuming you have the hardware that is...) In this post (and at least a
Tutorial
If you, like me, choose to deploy your operating systems via PXE boot using FOG Project instead of Microsoft's WDS/MDT, good for you! There are literally dozens of us! I recently discovered, having changed the IP address of the underlying OS (Debian, of course) that FOG itself
Proxmox
I won't lie, this post is in large part for my own benefit. I set up a lot of Proxmox systems, and there are a few steps that need to happen for hardware passthrough to work correctly. This is the quick and dirty guide to get it working.