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Additional information for your zone configuration

Sometimes it's useful to enrich your zone configuration with some additional data, so someone can look into the zone config and know for example who is...

Changing passwords - re-revisited

There was an interesting question on Twitter after I published my blog entry about assigning the authorization to change passwords to regular users: "Can you...

Changing passwords - revisited

You are a quite busy admin. The systems are well kept. Everything is working fine. However many people work on your system and inevitably some people forget...

Changing passwords - revisited

You are a quite busy admin. The systems are well kept. Everything is working fine. However many people work on your system and inevitably some people forget...

Changing passwords

This is a blog entry from the category "Just because you can do it this way, you should not necessarily do it this way" albeit the biggest problem with using...

Tales from the bike saddle: Relatively time efficient

I'm a much better cyclist than a runner. However I often thought that spending calories by running is much more efficient than cycling. Thus I did the math to...

Tiered storage with ZFS

This is another blog entry in regard to ZFS and about what you have to keep in mind about it when working with ZFS . It's nothing really astonishing, you just...