On an OSX system, .DS_STORE (Desktop Services Store), are used to store user settings for a folder, such as the list of files, the location of the icons, the selected background image.

In a mixed-OS environment using network shares, they can be annoying.

Even in a strictly Apple environment, there are security …

Trying to get a NFS mount mounted under /Volumes/ in OSX is more difficult than it sounds.

You basically have to trick OSX into allowing you to mount the NFS share in /Volumes/ by using ../ in the directory listing.

Example:

cd /System/Volumes/Data/Volumes

pwd
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes

Using the ../ trick, which …

As part of my NAS migration from TrueNAS to Ubuntu, I needed to set up some NFS shares on Ubuntu Server 20.04.

Pretty painless, but I need the option to connect from my iMac, there were some additional hoops to jump through, to get everything to work correctly.

Steps

1. Install the necessary packages:

   sudo apt install …

I finally ironed out all of the issues with my KVM server, and to eliminate any of the left over junk, for lack of a better phrase, I nuked the server and reinstalled Ubuntu 20.04. For the record, junk consisted of various packages, their configurations, and system modifications, that I'd tried out in deciding how to …

When MACOS changed the default shell from bash to zsh, I waited a bit, as I'd used bash for years and years, and was really familiar with it.

Post-clean install of Big Sur, I left my default shell as zsh.

Doing some reading, installed Oh My Zsh

Oh My Zsh is a delightful, open source, community-driven framework for …

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 …