Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H740P & Debian 9.x

If you’re thinking of purchasing a PERC H740p, or have already got one and want to use it within a Linux environment, there are a few things you should be aware of: Compatibility issues – support for these cards was added in kernel 4.11. As of writing only 4GB of DRAM & NV Cache is addressable (even…

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11 February 2018
debian, dell, h740p, perc

AWS S3 – List all objects within a given bucket

I think it is fair to say that Amazon Web Services has depth in the various offerings, but with this depth comes unsurprisingly a little complexity in getting to grips with it. I have spent the last few months working with Lambda, SNS, DynamoDB and S3 for various projects. It is not always clear…

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29 November 2016
aws, python, s3

Sky Broadband IPv6 & pfSense

UPDATE: Running pfSense 2.4 and it seems manual patching is not required now. The configuration elements are still valid. Since Q1 2016, Sky has been carrying out firmware upgrades on the routers they supply their customers with to enable native IPv6 support. I have had IPv6 enabled on my home…

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10 August 2016
networking, broadband, sky, ipv6, pfsense