Reboot issues in Q35/UEFI KVM guests
For a while, I’ve been having issues when soft rebooting some of my older KVM guest machines: They would hang on reboot, and when connecting to the VM consol...
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On laptops and sizes
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
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
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
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...