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As many of you know, I tend to run a lot of interesting things in my “home lab” network. Over the years, I have used lots of different techniques for this. Sometimes I ran on “bare metal” as the kids … Continue reading →

As I continue to learn how to secure my various “things”, I’m getting more and more of a fan of physical two factor authentication that doesn’t involve sending six digit codes over the public SMS network. As such, I’ve been … Continue reading →

In my most recent post, I covered how I was able to successfully install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for s390x on an emulated mainframe using QEMU. While I have physical hardware for AMD64, ARM64 and RISC-V, there is another currently-supported processor … Continue reading →

For those of you born… shall we say… more recently than some of us, you might not be familiar with the term “mainframe” or think that it is some ancient server lost to the mists of time. The generic term … Continue reading →

As a middle-aged electric bass player, the “metal moments” of my life have been coming with less frequency than they did when I was younger. As a result, I tend to look for opportunities to be “metal” on any given … Continue reading →

For those of you who didn’t read my predecessor post on setting up a full-blown Active Directory infrastructure on my home network with home directories, roaming user profiles and group policy using only open source software, take a read through … Continue reading →

Many of the long-time readers of this blog are going to probably have a panic attack when they read this article because they are going to be asking themselves the question, “Why in the heck does he want to install … Continue reading →

As long-time readers of this blog are aware, I’m a bit of a Thinkpad fanatic. I fell in love with these durable machines when I was working for IBM back in the late 90’s and accidentally had one fall out … Continue reading →