StarTech 4 Port PCI Express 2.0 SATA III 6Gbps RAID Controller Card

There are some minor issues that needs fixing when using this card under Linux. When booting, you will notice that the boot process will hang for a few minutes if you have this card installed. The reason for this… The Marvell 88SE9230 chipset which does not have a complete AHCI commandset implementation.
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I’ve joined Wild Games

New role, new job and a lot of new exciting challanges starts today as I join up with old friends and colleagues…
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The dangers of closed source and software as a service

I was given the opportunity to speak at KDS 2020 in Bergen, Norway on the 17th of January 2020 where I presented the talk, The dangers of closed source and Software as a service.
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Something New

As time continues to tick forward, second for second, I get older, as does the tech that I tend to favour and keep close to heart. Thus, this blog have been updated and moved away from any dynamic content. All content now is statically generated. This means that I’ve also cleaned out a lot of old outdated stuff, but more importantly, this site now requires very little hardware to run.
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systemd timers for DuckDNS

I had to migrate a couple of cron jobs over to systemd timers. This is a short walk through on how I did it for my DuckDNS updater. Basically, we need to create two files under /etc/systemd/system or /etc/systemd/user dep. on your specific needs. For DuckDNS I created the config under /etc/systemd/system. So any filenames or paths that are not rooted paths are in relation to /etc/systemd/system, so adjust accordingly for your own needs.
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