A long series of posts about how you can administer your ZFS filesystems and pools. The articles were originally written by Aaron Toponce and published on pthree.org in 2012, which is unfortunately no longer available online. I’ve mirrored his valuable work along with linked content here to ensure that readers continue to have access to this information.

Settings a VLAN ID is yet another common task for network administrators, but using the Windows GUI for this is time-consuming as usual. In this article, you’ll learn how to do it quickly using PowerShell commands.

Switching between DHCP and static IP addresses is a common task for network administrators, but using the Windows GUI for this can be time-consuming. In this article, you’ll learn how to do it quickly using PowerShell commands.

What is Power over Ethernet – PoE? What’s the difference between 802.3af and 802.3at (also known as PoE+)? All of the essential information about PoE modes, pinouts and voltages in a single article.

When setting up a reliable network, understanding the Ethernet and related standards is essential. This post covers key topics such as T568A vs T568B, the Category Rating System, UTP vs STP cables and also some tips for installing network cables.

Category 5, Cat5, Cat5e, Cat6, wiring diagrams both for straight through cables, crossover cables, token ring cables in RJ45. As a bonus learn how to build a Ethernet Economizer / Splitter.

In Angular the APP_INITIALIZER is designed for running asynchronous code during the application’s initialization phase – it waits for an observable or promise to complete before running code from your main app component. While this feature is quite useful, adding more than one APP_INITIALIZER will cause them to run in parallel, which makes it difficult to manage dependencies between them.

This is an opinion article where I explain why I believe that the RP2040 chip from the Raspberry Pi Foundation just opened the door for Intel to be an important player on the SBC market. At the same time the Pi Foundation may enter other profitable businesses typically held by FTDI.

In Angular projects, it’s common to use [routerLink] in template elements to handle navigation. While effective, this approach lacks the functionality of “Ctrl + Click” (or “Cmd + Click” on macOS) to open links in a new browser tab. In this post, I’ll share a simple yet effective directive to implement this feature.

In most situations, you would be entering your containers as root, and that’s perfectly reasonable. After all, an unprivileged container ensures that the root inside it will only have root privileges within that container and nowhere else. Sometimes, however, it might be useful to enter a container with a specific user.