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by operationroot May 29, 2020

Why this carbon capture technology may change the oil sector, but not the way you think…

Canadian company Carbon Engineering demonstrated last year, what it claims to be, a scalable and effective carbon capture technology, andContinue Reading

Encrypting your swap file on recent Debian or Ubuntu 18.04 based systems.

This quick guide is subject to the usual disclaimer. Use it at your own risk. 🙂 Why do it? DependingContinue Reading

by operationroot February 24, 2020

climate emergency opinion

Add blocking and your carbon footprint

We have seen some fresh interest in the carbon foot print of our online activities recently. From the server farmsContinue Reading

by operationroot December 30, 2019

climate emergency opinion

Lazy Journalism and EVs

Why the constant talk obsession with small EV market share is idiotic. We have seen a year full of articlesContinue Reading

by operationroot November 16, 2019 0

linux

How to upgrade an Ubuntu release -including your third party repos

You know, when you upgrade an Ubuntu release and it “helpfully” disables all your third party repos and then youContinue Reading

by operationroot October 14, 2019

linux

EU GDPR compliant logs

Note EU law does provide exception for the logging of IP addresses, which are classed as personal data, for theContinue Reading

by operationroot September 11, 2019

linux

Client Security – Securing your Web Browser

Based on recent disclosures regarding Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities (A more detailed break-down of which can be found in thisContinue Reading

by operationroot August 29, 2019

announcement

What about those pictures?

As you may have noticed, this blog features as host of original pictures to accompany our various posts. They mayContinue Reading

by operationroot July 30, 2019 0

linux

Yubikey and 1FA, 2FA, MFA with SSH

A curated link selection of “HOWTOs”. I was going to write a guide for you but in the end realizedContinue Reading

by operationroot June 3, 2019

aviation

Slat tracks on the 737 aren’t as benign as you might think. Here’s what can happen when things go wrong…

Hint, you may need to be quick on your feet and like it hot. By now there is a goodContinue Reading

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