Daniel Perelman
The problem# I returned to my desktop to find an error message saying the screensaver was unable load, and it wouldn't show the password box to unlock the screen. When I logged in via SSH from a different device and reattached to a Screen session I had previously started from inside my X session,...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# I had recently done an apt upgrade that included upgrading ZFS and noticed zpool status showed a weird "(non-allocating)" message, which seemed concerning: $ zpool status pool: tank state: ONLINE config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# Firefox Marionette only allows a single client to connect a time, so I'd like to have a program in charge of holding that connection that can communicate with the other parts of the system that know what I want Firefox to actually do. While a common way of handling this is to run an...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# When running an incremental backup with rsync with the --progress flag, it often spends lot of time outputting nothing as it scans through many unchanged files. If you think of it before starting the transfer, --info=progress2 or the name2/skip2 --info flags would give more detail,...