• Lent starting

    This year’s Lent starts. We may approach it as a period of inconvenient restriction or as a good chance to gain something. I’ve been thinking about absurdities of our society. We kill innocent and defenseless people. This has always happened but what I am additionally worried about is that we seriously talk about the “right” […]

  • FreedomBox

    There is an interesting article The Tangled Web We Have Woven by Eben Moglen in the current issue of Communications of the ACM. Eben Moglen makes some good and serious points about our privacy and about future of democracy in the era of internet services. I also suggest watching the talk of Eben Moglen and […]

  • ZFS user

    I decided that it is a good idea to replace my complicated hard drive setup utilizing parted + mdadm + vg* + lv* + mkfs + fsck + fstab + whatever else with just zpool + zfs. Let’s run zpool once and then create and manage file systems without artificial constraints, without unnecessary administration overhead […]

  • System reinstallation

    Linux Containers became unable to start after host system boot on one of my machines. They started fine on boot but any later attempts to start any of them failed with a weird message Invalid argument – pivot_root syscall failed. I couldn’t get help on that and obvious actions like trying to stop some daemons […]