Tag: Ubuntu
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Samba Wifi Speeds
In my last post Windows 2012 R2 Decommission I mentioned about a problem that would change my whole architecture. Transfer Speeds Whilst copying all the data over Samba from my M1 Max Macbook Pro over Gigabit Ethernet and having the Plex server access the files using NFS over Gigabit Ethernet it seemed like everything was…
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Windows 2012 R2 Decommission
My NAS/File Server has gone through multiple iterations after the years so it’s interesting to know the reasons for each iteration and the reason why I’m migrating it once again. First File Server (Ubuntu 11.10) My first NAS implementation was an old desktop PC running Ubuntu 11.10 that was running samba. I didn’t know about…
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GCP Ubuntu VM Freezing On Auto Updates
Upon migrating my blog to a Google Cloud Compute Engine VM (this very blog) I had a strange issue where it would freeze and become unresponsive. Only “Resetting” the VM would bring the blog back. The findings were so interesting I thought I would share them. Issue It’s worth noting what the instance is (and…