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Like many users finding themselves dual booting Windows and Linux, I have an entry in my /etc/fstab to automatically mount the Windows partition. And because I need read/write support, my only option has always been, of course, ntfs-3g . This, however, changed sometime in September 2021, when Paragon Software’s ntfs3 driver was merged into the Linux kernel. Recently I’ve upgraded my…
Recently at work I was tasked with simulating the workload of a client’s infrastructure consisting of several virtual machines. For our use case, this turned out to be a largely solved problem, thanks to existing tools like fio . For those who don’t know it, fio is a simple yet powerful program that allows simulating various kinds of I/O workloads. Its simplicity stems from two basic…
I’m a big fan of Variety , probably the most popular wallpaper changer among Linux users. It’s been sitting in my GNOME desktop’s system tray for a long time. (Yes, I know GNOME doesn’t actually have a system tray, but I can’t live without it so I installed Ubuntu’s AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support extension). Recently, Variety started having some…
It’s a bit unfortunate that my first blog post is essentially a rant, but there it is. I started to write this as a comment on Reddit, but soon I realized I didn’t want to give away free content to a platform that doesn’t value its users anymore (at least not the way it used to). But let’s not digress. First of all: who am I? For the sake of this post, I think it’s…