As much as we all hate FTP and the insecurities of the protocol, I’ve given up on the fact that it’s going to be retired anytime soon. A lot of old legacy systems (mainframes, AS400s, etc.) don’t support SSH, but they so support the infamous FTP protocol. These two factors force a lot of companies [...]
In the past year, a number of disk drives started shipping with 4K sector sizes. To see if your disk drive is using 512-byte or 4K sectors, you can use the blktool utility to print the sector size of a device: $ blktool /dev/sda sector-sz 512 You can also look at the hw_sector_size value for [...]
I have on a couple of occasions been asked to restore files that were deleted. I’ve been fortunate up to this point that I have always been able to get the deleted file back, either through file system manipulation, dd’ing of a device or by restoring the file from a previous back up. One thing [...]
Like most techies, I love to enjoy a couple cups of coffee each day. I’m not an espresso person like my blogging partner Mike, but am a simple drip guy. For the past 3 – 4 years I’ve been using a Cuisineart 12-cup drip coffee maker with natural unbleached filters. I THOUGHT this would provide [...]
