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On laptops and sizes

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For uninteresting reasons, I recently had the chance to try out a Lenovo T490s at home and compare it to my other laptops. The short story is that I won’t be...

Microsoft Needs to Rethink Windows Security

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In October 2003, Microsoft formalized “Patch Tuesday” as a phenomenon. Next month it will turn 21 with no indication of the stream of security issues being f...

Take Me To Your Lizard

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Every time there’s an election, I think of Douglas Adams’ brilliant exchange between Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent in So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish:

Changing Batteries on an APC UPS

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A while back, a colleague gave me an old IBM-branded APC uninterruptible power supply. It’s a nice addition to the home server setup, as it both cleans the i...

…And Jekyll on Fedora

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The other thing I resolved here was how to get Jekyll running at all on my Fedora laptop. I followed the instructions from the Jekyll website on what package...