Changing swappiness on Linux and SDD
By jeltsch on Tue, 02/19/2019 - 10:08The swappiness parameter is available from
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness
The fact that everything looks different doesn't mean that all has changed...
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Mounting group directories via the fstab
By jeltsch on Mon, 02/11/2019 - 13:14At the University of Helsinki, one can apply for group directories, which is simply disk space on a NAS. These are easily mounted when you use a university-managed computer via the university menu, but what about if you use your own machine? At least for Ubuntu Linux, the way to mount these directories has changed multiple times during the years and it again broke recently. The current entry in the /etc/fstab file in my (Vanilla, non-university-managed) Ubuntu 16.04 is as follows:
# HY group directories
OpenVPN server on pfsense and client on Ubuntu 16.04
By jeltsch on Fri, 11/02/2018 - 06:57
Setting up an OpenVPN server on my Netgate SG-3100 router was a piece of cake thanks to the pfsense GUI, but seting up the Ubuntu client requires sadly still the command line.
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