George Georgovassilis writes about information technology architecture
I'm sitting in a hotel lobby and the Ubuntu Acer Nitro 5 won't connect to the hotel wifi, although my android phone connected fine. According to syslog "could not get netmask from lease". This post isn't a fix, just an ugly workaround. This "lease" message points the unacquainted me towards a DHCP issue, which is … Continue reading could not get netmask from lease
I'm running ClamAV [1] on an Ubuntu 18.04 server in Docker and wanted to document, for posteriority and my own dementia, the setup process and considerations. Thankfully there is an official (?), well-maintained ClamAV image on Docker hub. ClamAV can run stand-alone or as a tandem of CLI tool and daemon - I prefer the … Continue reading Running clamav in Docker under Linux
This post is an update of the my 2020 home NAS setup. A few things changed since then, the most important the introduction of snapraid for the media and archiving portion of the NAS. The hardware hasn't changed much apart from a (preventive) hard-disk replacement; my admiration and gratitude goes to HP for building a … Continue reading My home NAS setup, 2022 edition
Rendering a video with KDEnlive 22.08.1 under Ubuntu 22.04 on the Acer Nitro5 with the hardware accelerated VAAPI Intel H264 profile aborts with this error: Driver does not support any RC mode compatible with selected options (supported modes: CQP). I'm not deep enough into the KDEnlive architecture to understand what I'm doing, my superficial understanding … Continue reading Driver does not support any RC mode compatible with selected options (supported modes: CQP)
In Building the perfect, cheap NAS I discuss bit rot which silently kills digital archives; my solution chosen back then builds on parchive which adds in a manual process redundancy to archives. This redundancy can be used to identify and correct bit rot to some extent. The issue with this approach is that it's manual … Continue reading RAID + dm-integrity vs bit rot
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