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
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Trying to help you manage your linux box
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
Aramco IPO – too late? Or great future potential?
Last December’s Aramco IPO seems like it has come about a decade too late. Given the limited carbon budget weContinue Reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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