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Firefox passwords: Now you see ’em, now you don’t

Posted on June 8, 2015 by j mozdzen

For some weeks, I’ve been suffering from an obscure problem with my Firefox password store: All stored passwords were available when listed via “settings” / “security” / “stored passwords”, and Firefox would enter user names in the appropriate web site … Continue reading →

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Installing OpenSUSE 13.1 with MD-RAID and bcache

Posted on May 26, 2015 by j mozdzen

When setting up our new NAS/SAN servers, we decided to use OpenSUSE 13.1 and to create a configuration with all HDDs in a RAID6 array, which then is expanded with SSD caching support via “bcache”. As this isn’t available right … Continue reading →

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Adding features to initrd on every mkinitrd call

Posted on April 29, 2015 by j mozdzen

I came across a situation where I have to specify a specific feature to “mkinitrd” to make the system boot. The scripts won’t autodetect that requirement, so calling “mkinitrd” with the “-f” flag was the way to go. But what … Continue reading →

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