Angular 5 Admin dashboard template

There is a lot of angular dashboard seed projects out there. But they are stuffed with a lot of things that might be not necessary to start a project of your own. So I decided to do my own Angular dashboard lean seed project. This project was scaffolded with Angular CLI version 1.4.9. What’s included Angular 5+ & Typescript 2.6.2 Bootstrap …

Linux Server real-time monitoring using a Raspberry PI

I wanted to be able to quickly see at any time the CPU load, Memory used, HD load, network etc … on my main home server. I wanted to have that constantly displayed on a screen on top of my server. Of course, one option would be to plug the monitor to the server and crack up a session to display …

Cheat sheet: Watching your Disks

If you built your own NAS with a PC, a Linux OS and some disks, you will need to monitor the health of your hard drives. Wouldn’t it be nice to know by advance if a hard disk will fail? Being proactive is essential here. And it also works if you only have a Linux workstation… For this, we will use the smartmontools …

Cheat sheet: How to create a bootable USB key on Mac OS X for Ubuntu / Debian

Open a terminal. BEFORE inserting the USB key, check which disks are available:

You should see one or more disks installed on your system like this:

Insert the USB key. Do a “diskutil list” again. You should see one more disk. This is your USB key. Let’s assume it is /dev/disk2. First we need to convert the ISO file to …

Cheat sheet: Install ZFS file system on Ubuntu 14.04

This file system is perfect to be used in a NAS. You can check Why ZFS over EXT4 or other FS at the bottom of this article. Install ZFS Before we can start using ZFS, we need to install it. Simply add the repository to apt-get with the following command:

You should get something like this:

Reboot. …