Blog posts
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Disabling Type 2 Protection in SAS HDDs – Tale of the ill-behaving ZFS...
Sometimes old enterprise SAS disks come with Type 1 or 2 Protection enabled. This is based on T10 Data Protection Information specification, which aims to ensure end-to-end-data integrity for data storage by using different (520 byte) block size where the disk controller can use the extra bytes for parity checking etc. In some cases this configuration can result problems with software RAID setups, like ZFS.
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Creating a MariaDB database and user from CLI
2026-08-09: Updated to MariaDB-compatible commands
For some reason I always have to search the internet for the steps required for creating a database and grant privileges to it in the MariaDB command line. Usually the how-tos found on the net are a bit complicated or they are missing some commands that I like to do when I create databases and users.…
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Replacing default Samsung Emoji emoticons with Google Emojis on rooted Samsung Note 3
Your device needs to be rooted for this to work! First, connect the mobile on your computer with USB-cable. Download, extract...
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Installing PDF Viewer to SRWare Iron on Mac
If you are using SRWare Iron, you might have noticed that it does not open PDF-files in browser like Google Chrome does. Here is how to get the PDF-viewer to Iron: