Sooner or later, every system will have a drive failure.

ZFS was designed with this in mind.

I noticed in my /var/log/kern.log file error messages about one of the drives in my ZFS pool.

Dec  8 07:11:17 nas kernel: [738110.398391] ata8.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x80000004 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Dec  8 07:11:17 nas …

Anyone that uses a lab that includes virtual machines re-uses the same IP addresses quite a bit.

However, when attempting to ssh (or scp or sftp) after re-using the IP address, you run into these errors:

scp tom@testbox.nodinrogers.com
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@    WARNING: REMOTE …

Update: As of May 2023, this is still an issue, so I'm still running Plex server version 1.24.5.

I went to watch a movie using Plex, and an error popped up:

File is unplayable. Color space is not supported …

Recent updates to the main Calibre application results in new requirements to do ebook conversions.

Without installing the new requirements, ebook conversions fail due to missing files:

Failed to import PyQt module: PyQt6.QtWebEngineCore with error: libXtst.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or …

While trying to scp some files I knew existed on the remote system, I ran into an issue using a wildcard.

Using the zsh shell and using a wildcard in scp fails:

scp tom@testbox:~/test*.txt
zsh: no matches found: tom@testbox:~/test*.txt

However, the files do exist:

ssh testbox
tom@testbox:~$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-rw-r-- 1 …