Update on my Oldest Computer
Something interesting happened today that I decided to write about. Not that I don't find interesting things to write about almost daily. I installed updates...
Why I Installed Fedora Server on My Primary Workstation — and How
Customizing a Fedora system from a minimal command line only installation.
Network Upgrades Completed — Sort of
So I didn't upgrade to 3Gb Gfiber. I wanted a couple things like static IPs that they can't or won't do without using their business...
Network Upgrades at Both.org
Starting Friday morning, January 23, I'm having Google fiber installed. It's 3Gb symmetric, which is 3x that which my ATT fiber provides, costs less, and...
Why I Didn’t Convert My Primary Workstation to BtrFS
When I started writing this series about the BtrFS filesystem, I fully intended to migrate my primary workstation from EXT4 so that I could get...
Converting to BtrFS — Episode 5
The previous step in conversion of my main test computer from EXT4 filesystems on a Logical Volume Manager (LVM) base, to BtrFS is complete. It...
Using Wildcards on the Bash Command Line
The function of any shell, whether Bash, KSH, CSH is to take commands entered on the command line; expand any file globs, that is wildcard...
2025 — a Great Year for Both.org
2025 was an amazing year for Both.org. We started with only a few visitors per day and grew rapidly. Although the time up to the...
Introduction to the BtrFS Filesystem
Over the nearly 30 years I have been using Linux, the default filesystem for Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) and Fedora, the EXT series of...
Quick Tip for umount
Sometimes learning a new thing can be the result of my innate curiosity.
The Truth About Disk Fragmentation
Modern Linux filesystems make defragmentation irrelevant for most of us.
Prognostications for 2026
The advent of a new year always seems to give us an excuse to inflict our opinions about what we expect -- or hope --...
When an Apparent DDOS Attack is a Good Thing
Both.org is 2 years old and has been growing steadily. But we’re now seeing some interesting growth phenomena.
Mozilla Firefox AI Slop
I've been using Mozilla Firefox since its original release 21 years ago. Firefox started as an excellent open source browser with a relatively small code...
Converting to BtrFS — Episode 4
In the 3rd episode of this series, I used the btrfs-convert command to convert the EXT4 filesystem on an LVM base to BtrFS on LVM....
Advanced stress testing for DevOps
I recently discovered stress-ng which, while similar to the original stress program, offers far more flexibility and granularity in testing.