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Hardware required – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It
I’ve been a user of Unraid since 2012, when I had to find a solution to my home storage after Windows Home Server was abandoned by Microsoft. Unraid has been very good for me, and the introduction of a Docker engine with Unraid 6 was very welcome. That said, I’ve recently encountered issues with bitrot, and the fact…
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error processing package apt-show-versions on Ubuntu 14.04 or Ubuntu 16.04
When installing Webmin, I’ve sometimes come across an error installing a dependency package, apt-show-versions: This is caused by the fact that apt-show-versions can’t read compressed index files. Thankfully, the solution is quite simple: First, we need to tell APT not to compress the index. To do this we create an entry in a file called /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02compress-indexes: If the file is…
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How to ensure you can revert changes to function apps
As I’ve been playing around with Azure Functions I’ve slowly outgrown the web-based editor. It’s not that it’s not useful, it’s just that I miss intellisense (I’ll come back to this in a later post), and I accidentally deployed a change which broke one of my functions. I’d made dozens of tiny changes, but I simply could not…