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YubiKey All The Things

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

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Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

As many long-term readers of this blog know, I am pretty firmly entrenched into my Gnome 3 workflow and I try to keep my desktop experience as consistent as possible between the various machines and operating systems that I run. … Continue reading

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Fast Follower – Unlimited POWER!!!!!

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

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What’s a Mainframe?

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

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Fiber + Static IP = Self-Hosting Glory!

Recently, a new Internet Service Provider (ISP) became available in my area. Now, no longer confined to a choice between the cable TV company and the telephone company to supply the bits to my house, I had the option of … Continue reading

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The Most Metal Thing I’ve Done Today

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

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Active Directory Needs Friends!

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

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Active Directory Says What?

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

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Thinkpad T14 (AMD) Gen 2 – A Brave New World!

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

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OpenBSD 6.9 – Help with the “Failed to install bootblocks” issue

Hi everyone! I purposely chose a non-catchy title so that it would be more easily found by the search engines as this one has been a challenge for me in my last several laptop installs and I always manage to … Continue reading

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