About the only Windows (any version) I use is in a virtual machine, and that's not that often.

Windows 10 by default has auto download/auto update configured.

When a few months (or longer) goes by and I need a quick test/check done on a Windows box, the system quickly appears to lock up downloading and cramming the …

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Years ago, I soft-modded my Nintendo Wii, as I had a few games that the DVD got scratched up, and was pretty pissed at having to buy another copy.

After soft-modding the Wii, I could backup my DVDs to an external USB hard drive and put the physical DVD away from little smudgy, scratchy hands.

Added bonus of …

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Steps:

Create the jail

1. Name Jail and Choose FreeBSD Release Name: calibre-web Jail Type: Default (Clone Jail) Release: 12.2-RELEASE …

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Generally not a good idea from a security standpoint, but if you have a lot of CLI work to do in a FreeNAS jail, it can make life easier.

If nothing else, seeing a lot more data on the screen, and being able to copy/paste commands has it's advantages.

Steps:

1. Enable sshd:

   sysrc sshd_enable="YES"
   sshd_enable: …

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I was running Transmission on a virtual machine, but that VM decided to stop working, so I decided it was time to move to something a little more isolated, and easier to rebuild if/when the time comes.

Doing some research, aka, poking around the internet using The Google, I found a decent guide, which I modified a bit, …

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So, it looks like in Ubuntu 16.04 and above, changing the hostname is no longer using the hostname command and editing the /etc/hosts file.

New (at least to me) command hostnamectl is now used.

This command recognizes three different classes of hostname (straight from the man page):

static - The traditional hostname. …

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