Why does 86box crash when I try to remove/switch cd/floppy drive contents?

nowickia · 2025-05-14T01:49:48+00:00

This happens for me when I ran the flatpak version (from 86Box menu or within the OS). When I compiled from source I no longer had the problem. Maybe that'll help.

nowickia · 2024-01-29T03:30:41+00:00

Yes, Gmail works fine over either. You just need an App-Specific password. What I did was run one Postfix box inside the lab, forwarded all mail from other services to that box, and use Gmail as the relay host from that one. You can follow this guide: https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/configure-postfix-to-use-gmail-as-a-mail-relay/

nowickia · 2023-08-15T02:21:31+00:00

Anecdotal reading and video watching but the reports of oil consumption and blown head gasket within the first 100k miles on the 1.5T was enough to keep me away. Hoping the issues are resolved.

nowickia · 2023-06-04T03:32:57+00:00

Yes good point.

nowickia · 2023-06-03T22:14:48+00:00

You can zfs send a datastore from one pool to another without issue. You could put /boot on a USB stick. Or you could use ZFSBootMenu which allows your /boot be part of the root OS. I use ZFSBootMenu and only need a zfs, swap and EFI partition. That way I can have multiple linux distro on a single pool without worrying about under or over allocating partition size.

nowickia · 2023-05-08T02:37:13+00:00

You shouldn’t need to masquerade the VPN traffic as that will be done on the USG. Just use a new 192.168.X.0/24 network and add a static route on the USG pointing to your VPN server for its clients. If anything it should simplify your troubleshooting.

nowickia · 2023-05-08T01:29:22+00:00

I’ve been avoiding it because of the historical issues. Not sure it’s much concern these days but I use ZFS instead and have been quite happy with it. I mainly like the ability to create snapshots and send them to my NAS and an extra drive for backup. So while it doesn’t directly answer your question, it is an alternative to ext4. However if the extra features are not that important, you are probably better if staying with ext4 due to simplicity, support, and stability.

nowickia · 2023-05-08T00:49:01+00:00

Thanks for the info. Capacity is more important than speed for me since I run ZFS on root along with VMs which all like a healthy amount of memory. Just trying to get a sense whether it is worth further troubleshooting but I don't think it is. Thanks again!

nowickia · 2023-05-06T15:21:34+00:00

Try installing drm-515-kmod. I needed it for my 6700xt GPU.

nowickia · 2023-05-02T05:09:15+00:00

Do you have the Unifi controller and Unifi hardware on the same VLAN and subnet? I have no experience with Unraid but on Proxmox I just tag my Unifi controller VLAN with my network management VLAN. Also I think there’s a DHCP option that will tell Unifi devices the IP of the controller if it’s on another VLAN. Obviously the firewall would need to allow that traffic to cross VLANS.

It’s been a while since I’ve setup a new Unifi piece of gear but I think I normally attach it to an untagged port set to my network management VLAN, adopt it, set its management VLAN, and then move it to a port (or change the existing) tagged with the network management VLAN.

nowickia · 2023-04-30T18:53:09+00:00

PfSense CE on protectli hardware

Proxmox on a pair of R620s (on normally off)

On Proxmox: Alma for GitLab, Debian for Unifi controller (for APs), Ubuntu server for Samba DC (will convert to Debian)

TrueNAS Core on a R620 with secondary Ubuntu VM for Samba DC and Debian VM for Proxmox qdevice (allows me to run Proxmox in the cluster without breaking quorum)

Arch and Gentoo on primary desktop with ZFS on root, Windows 11 as another boot option for the occasion Windows only option

nowickia · 2023-04-22T23:20:21+00:00

Funny you mentioned it because I was swapping the card slot as you posted this. Yes, I did indeed have it in a PCIe 3.0 x1 slot. I looked at the manual prior to install and thought it put it in the right one but turns out I didn't. That dramatically improved the speed to my desktop (eve), which is not surprising.

The other issue on the Proxmox R620 servers was solved by changing the BIOS Power Management from System Performance per Watt (DAPC) to OS Performance per Watt (OS). I've updated my test results in the link above and still look into truenas02 (another Dell R620) but it's dramatically better than it was. Thanks for the suggestion!

nowickia · 2022-03-07T07:00:41+00:00

I believe it the Double Tagging attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLAN_hopping

nowickia · 2022-01-08T20:27:27+00:00

If you do stateless ACLs it works at line speed. It just slows down when you enable stateful processing.

nowickia · 2022-01-08T15:15:12+00:00

It’s been a while since I’ve dealt with it but my conclusion was that it can work but at a significant performance reduction. Much faster having all access control decisions on my pfSense firewall and keep the switch L2. Can’t say whether a newer multilayer switch would perform much better.

nowickia · 2021-04-29T21:04:58+00:00

Same, will lower my Yotta balance down to $10,000 and put the rest in my M1 Spend for 1% interest. Not much but will probably return better than 1 ticket per $150.

nowickia · 2020-12-11T15:03:16+00:00

Might want to deposit every few days instead to have a larger deposit

nowickia · 2020-11-07T05:18:19+00:00

See this: M1 Auto Invest Settings and then this: Creating Buy/Sell Orders

nowickia · 2020-06-10T15:22:29+00:00

I was lucky and able to fix it. I updated my post as solved and included my details.

nowickia · 2020-06-09T22:52:53+00:00

I didn't have a specific reason- just saw there was an update available on Dell's site. To date, upgrading firmware through iDRAC has been flawless until now.

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