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  • Adding the VIQR input method to IBus

    To add the VIQR input method to IBus, install the ibus-table-others package. My setup is GNOME on Arch Linux, so the steps were as follows: Background When I need to type in Vietnamese, I use the VIQR input method because it was the method that made the most sense to me. The other popular method…

  • Clonezilla: “Box” is an unknown partition device

    I was looking for some files that were on my laptop before I erased it for re-partitioning (to GPT) and reinstalling. Luckily, I made an image of the drive using Clonezilla. When trying to restore the partition image to a disk (restoreparts) inside a VM, Clonezilla kept error-ing out after selecting the partition(s) to restore.…

  • Updating ESXi host using local patch zip file

    A Tweet from @ESXiPatches prompted me to update my ESXi 6.7.0 host. I enabled SSH and tried to update, but I got the popular message: $ esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20220704001-standard \ -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml [OSError] [Errno 28] No space left on device Please refer to the log file for more details. This is not…

  • Proxmox VE and Let’s Encrypt with DNS-01 Validation

    One of the appealing reasons for using Proxmox VE as your hypervisor is that one can configure their system to obtain a TLS certificate for https from Let’s Encrypt on a regular basis. The Environment At the time of writing, I am running Proxmox VE version 7.2-4. The name of the node for this article…

  • can’t change attributes MNT_DEFEXPORTED already set for mount

    When restarting my TrueNAS (CORE) box, I got a few of the following errors for a few of my datasets: Apr 23 02:11:37 truenas 1 2022-04-23T02:11:37.549270+00:00 truenas.local mountd 1176 – – can’t change attributes for /mnt/tank/user/jmtran: MNT_DEFEXPORTED already set for mount 0xfffff8016cc87000 Apr 23 02:11:37 truenas 1 2022-04-23T02:11:37.549276+00:00 truenas.local mountd 1176 – – bad exports…

  • Additional Show Notes for LINUX Unplugged 377

    Episode link: https://linuxunplugged.com/377 During the discussion regarding youtube-dl, pagure was brought up as another self-hosted GitHub-like service. After a few failed DuckDuckGo searches, I found the project on awesome-selfhosted.https://pagure.io/pagure

  • Print photos to DNP DS-RX1HS on Linux

    I have a DNP DS-RX1HS photo printer for the occasional photobooth “gig” and every so often, I would like to print out some photos. When I do print photos, I would have get the image to a laptop and if I picked up the T430, I would have to reboot that into Windows otherwise there’s…

  • Yet another post about setting up alerts

    tl;dr Set up e-mail alerts so that you are alerted to when things (start to) go wrong. This morning, I got an email from my FreeNAS server with the following: New alerts: * Boot Pool Status Is ONLINE: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error.…

  • blog.

    This [blog] has been an idea on the back burner for a very long time. Reasons for this include: What will I use? (WordPress, GitHub Pages, etc.) What will the domain name be? As you can tell, I have decided to use WordPress and this subdomain. Maybe one day I will get creative and flip…

  • Delegate ACME challenges to another nameserver

    I have been using Let’s Encrypt’s DNS-01 challenge to prove that I control DNS for domain names. However, obtaining certificates and renewing them have been a manual process where I added scripts to getssl to tell me the TXT record(s) to add for that domain. I did it this way because I did not like…