The author recently migrated back to Debian for better performance and flexibility, utilizing PCIe passthrough for Windows. They experienced persistent I/O errors while reading sectors from an old hard disk, despite SMART tests showing no issues. After forcing sector reallocation, the ZFS pool became inaccessible. Using gdisk to overwrite the corrupt partition table restored functionality.

The author chronicles their journey from being a long-time Linux user to temporarily using Windows, primarily for compatibility reasons, and then back to Linux with a virtualized Windows setup. They detail issues with Windows updates and the advantages of Linux for software development, ultimately finding a reliable dual-boot configuration with gaming capabilities.

In 2023, there a fraud came to light in UCO bank. How it was pulled off technically, through digital banking channels is described the linked article. It’s a very interesting read, I had no idea about how the various payment mechanisms – NEFT/RTGS/IMPS worked in our banking system. It also [...]

So I have a FTTH internet connection and my ISP uses PPPoE – a rather common configuration. But the ISP resets my connection every 12 hours, possibly for accounting purposes. Now whenever the connection reset was taking place my internet used to vanish for 30 seconds – a very bad [...]

Sometimes it is convenient to have user assigned names to network interfaces – particularly when the MAC address of the interface remains constant but the bus on which it is attached may change because it’s a virtual machine. All that is required to be done is create a file /etc/udev/rules.d/persistent-net.rules [...]