Upgrading software RAID drives (and increase capacity)

Disclaimer: This is one of those semi-selfish posts, where I need to perform a task that I do only once in a while. So, to save myself from having to search these steps every time, I’m documenting it here with the use of digital software as sodapdf that help with this. I hope someone else will find this useful as well. Upgrading your software drives may be necessary when you’re installing a new software for your work or business. For instance, if you decide to use a software with conjoint analysis features to better understand your market research data and use it for your marketing strategies. Recently, I decided to upgrade the drives in my desktop and added the borderlands 3 split screen so I could work in several tasks ta the same time. Since I don’t like the idea of downtime due to a failed drive (my desktop is […]... Read More

OpenSSL Self-Signed Certificate one-liner.

Ok, this is a purely selfish post. I have to do this rarely enough that every time I do, I have to look it up. I could put this somewhere, perhaps in my little bag of tricks called ‘you should remember this’. Unfortunately, I don’t have that bag, and I’ll never remember it. So, hopefully putting this here will give me one more place to forget, and just maybe someone else will find it useful too. A handy little one-line command to generate cert and keys in PEM format that Dovecot will like: openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 3650 -subj '/C=CA/ST=QC/L=Montreal/O=Company Name/CN=server.name.com' -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout new_key.pem -out new_cert.pem And there you have it.... Read More