Fixing GUI stuttering in Xorg on FreeBSD on Lenovo x260
I’ve been seeing similar GUI freezes in FreeBSD, on my Lenovo x260, as I did in Fedora: When using Xorg, my Lenovo x260 would occasionally become unresponsiv...
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FreeBSD
Jekyll on FreeBSD
As I’ve mentioned, this website is statically generated by Jekyll, a Ruby based static site generator. My needs are very simple, so I have a git based workfl...
FreeBSD After a Couple of Months
It’s now been almost four months since I relapsed into running some FreeBSD servers, and I’ve now had time to lift them through my first FreeBSD major versio...
GitOps website deployment with Gitea
I’m slowly simplifying and minimizing my home server environment for no particular reason other than enjoying the KISS principle.
FreeBSD Base Configuration
A while back I realized I haven’t been running FreeBSD since almost a decade, when I used it along with CARP for my first HAProxy load balancer pair at work....
Fedora
…And Jekyll on Fedora
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...
Connecting to Home from Abroad
A long time ago I set up a VPN server on my pfSense network gateway. Then I switched away from pfSense, and then Covid happened, and during a number of years...
Fixing Performance Issues in Dirt Rally 2.0
A while ago I suddenly began seeing wild framerate fluctuations and gradual performance drops as stages progressed in my current favorite car game, Dirt Rall...
Lenovo X260 as a Unix workhorse
I’m writing this post from an old Lenovo X260 on which I’ve installed Fedora 39. For desktop usage this is currently my favorite Linux distribution: It suppo...
Fullscreen Gaming in Gnome
I’ve been mostly enjoying doing my gaming in Fedora Linux, but the last couple of versions have been mildly irritating, in that some games were unable to gai...
Linux
Fixing Performance Issues in Dirt Rally 2.0
A while ago I suddenly began seeing wild framerate fluctuations and gradual performance drops as stages progressed in my current favorite car game, Dirt Rall...
Fullscreen Gaming in Gnome
I’ve been mostly enjoying doing my gaming in Fedora Linux, but the last couple of versions have been mildly irritating, in that some games were unable to gai...
Getting My Ducks in a Row
My home environment is mostly set to auto-update when new things are available - including my hypervisors. Occasionally, things would restart but my web serv...
PowerShell for Unix nerds
(This post was inspired by a question on ServerFault) Windows has had an increasingly useful scripting language since 2006 in PowerShell. After Microsoft ap...
Windows
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...
Exchange Shenanigans
I had an interesting adventure last night: The phone rang at 22:19, and then I spent a couple of hours with two colleagues assessing the situation, trying to...
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
PowerShell for Unix nerds
(This post was inspired by a question on ServerFault) Windows has had an increasingly useful scripting language since 2006 in PowerShell. After Microsoft ap...
troubleshooting
Fixing GUI stuttering in Xorg on FreeBSD on Lenovo x260
I’ve been seeing similar GUI freezes in FreeBSD, on my Lenovo x260, as I did in Fedora: When using Xorg, my Lenovo x260 would occasionally become unresponsiv...
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...
Getting My Ducks in a Row
My home environment is mostly set to auto-update when new things are available - including my hypervisors. Occasionally, things would restart but my web serv...
Evidence-based IT Operations
A significant part of our time dealing with computers in some role or other, is spent troubleshooting why something happens that differs from what we intende...
PowerShell
Exchange Shenanigans
I had an interesting adventure last night: The phone rang at 22:19, and then I spent a couple of hours with two colleagues assessing the situation, trying to...
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
PowerShell for Unix nerds
(This post was inspired by a question on ServerFault) Windows has had an increasingly useful scripting language since 2006 in PowerShell. After Microsoft ap...
KVM
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...
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
Reflections on Proxmox VE
I’ve now been using Proxmox VE as a hypervisor in my home lab for a couple of years, and as I’ve reverted to plain Ubuntu Server + KVM, I figured I would try...
Jekyll
…And Jekyll on Fedora
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...
GitOps website deployment with Gitea
I’m slowly simplifying and minimizing my home server environment for no particular reason other than enjoying the KISS principle.
Starting a Jekyll blog
I’ve begun experimenting with a statically generated site in place of my Wordpress instance: The more I work with technology, the more I find myself enjoying...
HAProxy
Messing With the Badguys
Scrolling through my HAProxy logs, I got a bit miffed at the amount of bot traffic I saw attempting to access nonexistent paths obviously looking for weaknes...
Serving static web pages from HAProxy
I recently had to prove ownership of a web domain at work. The suggested process was easy enough: Present a web page with your company name, and a way to sen...
Proxmox
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
Reflections on Proxmox VE
I’ve now been using Proxmox VE as a hypervisor in my home lab for a couple of years, and as I’ve reverted to plain Ubuntu Server + KVM, I figured I would try...
Ansible
Ansible Secrets Management with 1Password
I’m migrating my work code repositories from an on-prem GitLab instance to GitHub as part of an integration project we’re working on. One of the consequences...
Deploying a Ubiquiti Unifi appliance with Ansible
I finally got tired of my old 802.11n Apple Airport Express(!) that has been serving the kitchen part of our house with an Internet connection for many yea...
Gitea
Jekyll on FreeBSD
As I’ve mentioned, this website is statically generated by Jekyll, a Ruby based static site generator. My needs are very simple, so I have a git based workfl...
GitOps website deployment with Gitea
I’m slowly simplifying and minimizing my home server environment for no particular reason other than enjoying the KISS principle.
OPNSense
Connecting to Home from Abroad
A long time ago I set up a VPN server on my pfSense network gateway. Then I switched away from pfSense, and then Covid happened, and during a number of years...
Happy Network News
I started writing a completely different story last weekend, but life is like an assorted box of network cables, and here we are.
macOS
Connecting to Home from Abroad
A long time ago I set up a VPN server on my pfSense network gateway. Then I switched away from pfSense, and then Covid happened, and during a number of years...
Ansible Secrets Management with 1Password
I’m migrating my work code repositories from an on-prem GitLab instance to GitHub as part of an integration project we’re working on. One of the consequences...
Exchange
Exchange Shenanigans
I had an interesting adventure last night: The phone rang at 22:19, and then I spent a couple of hours with two colleagues assessing the situation, trying to...
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
gaming
Fixing Performance Issues in Dirt Rally 2.0
A while ago I suddenly began seeing wild framerate fluctuations and gradual performance drops as stages progressed in my current favorite car game, Dirt Rall...
Fullscreen Gaming in Gnome
I’ve been mostly enjoying doing my gaming in Fedora Linux, but the last couple of versions have been mildly irritating, in that some games were unable to gai...
x260
Fixing GUI stuttering in Xorg on FreeBSD on Lenovo x260
I’ve been seeing similar GUI freezes in FreeBSD, on my Lenovo x260, as I did in Fedora: When using Xorg, my Lenovo x260 would occasionally become unresponsiv...
Lenovo X260 as a Unix workhorse
I’m writing this post from an old Lenovo X260 on which I’ve installed Fedora 39. For desktop usage this is currently my favorite Linux distribution: It suppo...
Ruby
…And Jekyll on Fedora
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...
Jekyll on FreeBSD
As I’ve mentioned, this website is statically generated by Jekyll, a Ruby based static site generator. My needs are very simple, so I have a git based workfl...
regex
PowerShell for Unix nerds
(This post was inspired by a question on ServerFault) Windows has had an increasingly useful scripting language since 2006 in PowerShell. After Microsoft ap...
hacks
Serving static web pages from HAProxy
I recently had to prove ownership of a web domain at work. The suggested process was easy enough: Present a web page with your company name, and a way to sen...
Ubuntu
Reflections on Proxmox VE
I’ve now been using Proxmox VE as a hypervisor in my home lab for a couple of years, and as I’ve reverted to plain Ubuntu Server + KVM, I figured I would try...
hypervisors
Reflections on Proxmox VE
I’ve now been using Proxmox VE as a hypervisor in my home lab for a couple of years, and as I’ve reverted to plain Ubuntu Server + KVM, I figured I would try...
blogging
Starting a Jekyll blog
I’ve begun experimenting with a statically generated site in place of my Wordpress instance: The more I work with technology, the more I find myself enjoying...
WiFi
Deploying a Ubiquiti Unifi appliance with Ansible
I finally got tired of my old 802.11n Apple Airport Express(!) that has been serving the kitchen part of our house with an Internet connection for many yea...
Ubiquiti
Deploying a Ubiquiti Unifi appliance with Ansible
I finally got tired of my old 802.11n Apple Airport Express(!) that has been serving the kitchen part of our house with an Internet connection for many yea...
AirPort
Deploying a Ubiquiti Unifi appliance with Ansible
I finally got tired of my old 802.11n Apple Airport Express(!) that has been serving the kitchen part of our house with an Internet connection for many yea...
baking
A nice baguette
For once a very non-technical post.
hobbies
A nice baguette
For once a very non-technical post.
food
A nice baguette
For once a very non-technical post.
Nginx
GitOps website deployment with Gitea
I’m slowly simplifying and minimizing my home server environment for no particular reason other than enjoying the KISS principle.
webserver
GitOps website deployment with Gitea
I’m slowly simplifying and minimizing my home server environment for no particular reason other than enjoying the KISS principle.
ITOps
Evidence-based IT Operations
A significant part of our time dealing with computers in some role or other, is spent troubleshooting why something happens that differs from what we intende...
SiteReliabilityEngineering
Evidence-based IT Operations
A significant part of our time dealing with computers in some role or other, is spent troubleshooting why something happens that differs from what we intende...
SRE
Evidence-based IT Operations
A significant part of our time dealing with computers in some role or other, is spent troubleshooting why something happens that differs from what we intende...
systemd
Getting My Ducks in a Row
My home environment is mostly set to auto-update when new things are available - including my hypervisors. Occasionally, things would restart but my web serv...
IPv6
Happy Network News
I started writing a completely different story last weekend, but life is like an assorted box of network cables, and here we are.
1Password
Ansible Secrets Management with 1Password
I’m migrating my work code repositories from an on-prem GitLab instance to GitHub as part of an integration project we’re working on. One of the consequences...
Bash
Ansible Secrets Management with 1Password
I’m migrating my work code repositories from an on-prem GitLab instance to GitHub as part of an integration project we’re working on. One of the consequences...
Prometheus
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
Grafana
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
monitoring
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
observability
Prometheus data from PowerShell
At work we have a system which is dependent on fetching email from an on-premises Exchange server via Exchange Web Services (EWS). Apparently there’s a “wont...
Gnome
Fullscreen Gaming in Gnome
I’ve been mostly enjoying doing my gaming in Fedora Linux, but the last couple of versions have been mildly irritating, in that some games were unable to gai...
ESXi
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
vSphere
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
bhyve
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
VirtualBox
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
Hyper-V
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
laptop
Lenovo X260 as a Unix workhorse
I’m writing this post from an old Lenovo X260 on which I’ve installed Fedora 39. For desktop usage this is currently my favorite Linux distribution: It suppo...
Wine
Fixing Performance Issues in Dirt Rally 2.0
A while ago I suddenly began seeing wild framerate fluctuations and gradual performance drops as stages progressed in my current favorite car game, Dirt Rall...
DirtRally2
Fixing Performance Issues in Dirt Rally 2.0
A while ago I suddenly began seeing wild framerate fluctuations and gradual performance drops as stages progressed in my current favorite car game, Dirt Rall...
VPN
Connecting to Home from Abroad
A long time ago I set up a VPN server on my pfSense network gateway. Then I switched away from pfSense, and then Covid happened, and during a number of years...
WireGuard
Connecting to Home from Abroad
A long time ago I set up a VPN server on my pfSense network gateway. Then I switched away from pfSense, and then Covid happened, and during a number of years...
Exchange Shenanigans
I had an interesting adventure last night: The phone rang at 22:19, and then I spent a couple of hours with two colleagues assessing the situation, trying to...
Git
Jekyll on FreeBSD
As I’ve mentioned, this website is statically generated by Jekyll, a Ruby based static site generator. My needs are very simple, so I have a git based workfl...
UPS
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...
homelab
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...
power
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...
Politics
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:
Microsoft
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...
WindowsUpdate
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...
security
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...
infosec
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...