New fans, new problem

My NAS uses a Supermicro X11SSH-F motherboard, which I love if for no other reason than it has IPMI.

One of my 120mm case fans started to die, so since I was opening the case, and all of the fans were the same age (~8 years old), I decided to replace all of the fans.

I bought some Noctua NF-P12 …

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I swapped out the fan in my NAS server with some Noctua, which all supported PWM.

As part of my testing, to see what speeds the PWM fans would run at, I found a script that was written by the TrueNAS community.

I had to modify it so it would run on Ubuntu, but there wasn't much to modify.

This output of this script …

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I wrote previously about my frustration with trying to get the default Ubuntu desktop to run in a VNC session, one that would install as a service, and work after a reboot.

After spending more time than I'd like to admit, I threw in the towel, and went with the Mate desktop (Gnome 2 based), which worked without a …

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So I needed a way to connect to a Linux VM via VNC.

There is a lot of information out there on how to do it, but most of it talks about using less resource intensive desktop (xfce4).

I wanted the full desktop experience, and as both my Linux box and my full-time desktop are both connected to a 1GB switch, I wasn't …

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I created an Ubuntu desktop virtual machine (VM) on my KVM system, and shortly after I started using it, I realized that I hadn't allocated/created a large enough hard drive for my use.

I have a "master" Ubuntu VM that I clone when I need an Ubuntu VM, which is set up and configured they way I like it.

I had …

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I was doing some testing of using a Samba share for OSX's Time Machine backup, and needed to verify that it would actually work.

My initial test simply made sure that the Samba share showed up as an option in the Time Machine preferences, but I needed to run a Time Machine backup.

However, the Ubuntu VM I've been using …

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