PGP: Secure Communication, Key Management, and Power of WKD

Introduction to PGP Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a cryptographic tool designed to provide privacy, integrity, and authentication for digital communications. Initially created by Phil Zimmermann in 1991, PGP uses a combination of symmetric and asymmetric encryption to ensure that…

What to use for a home NAS?

A few weeks ago I started to think about to merge my old home server and my NAS (old ICYBOX IB-NAS4220 – don’t you want one?) into one piece of hardware. I was facing decisions what hardware and what OS…

Stale NFS file handle – SPARC and ZFS (x86 update)

Today, I found strange messages on one Solaris 10 SPARC host: Apr 10 05:38:30 nfsclient nfs: [ID 626546 kern.notice] NFS write error on host nfsserver: Stale NFS file handle. Apr 10 05:38:30 nfsclient nfs: [ID 702911 kern.notice] (file handle: 90ebba38…

Setting NFS server version on Solaris 11

Solaris 11 is out and there are many changes, especially in network configurations. One of the affected service is a NFS server. You might want to use NFSv3 instead of default NFSv4. There is no such /etc/default/nfs where you could…

Horí ti maštaľ aneb reportáž z Výstaviště

Tak tohle už asi nikdy nezažiju. Nebyl jsem u toho, když hořelo Národní divadlo, ale právě jsem se vrátil z Výstaviště, kde v tuto chvíli dohořívá levá část Průmyslového paláce. Ale popořádku…