Wandering Thoughts archives

2022-04-30:	Some thoughts about your (our) site needing Javascript
2022-04-29:	Our positive experience with having our support site be basic HTML
2022-04-28:	The practical problem with /etc/pam.d on long-lived Linux systems
2022-04-27:	The root cause of my xdg-desktop-portal problems on a Fedora machine
2022-04-26:	Why your physical servers running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS can boot very slowly
2022-04-25:	Sort of making snapshots of UEFI libvirt-based virtual machines
2022-04-24:	Some things that make shell scripts have performance issues
2022-04-23:	The temptation of writing shell scripts, illustrated
2022-04-22:	The state of Python (both 2 and 3) in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
2022-04-21:	4K HiDPI monitors come in inconvenient sizes if you want two of them
2022-04-20:	My virtualization setup so far with Linux's virt-manager and friends
2022-04-19:	Some bits on keeping isolated network interfaces organized (on Linux)
2022-04-18:	How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD Where Linux's load average comes from in the kernel
2022-04-16:	"Long term support" Unixes and versions of software in them
2022-04-15:	I need (or at least want) a new virtual machine (GUI) environment
2022-04-14:	Building Firefox from source and Rust versions
2022-04-13:	A reason why Unix programs sometimes support '-?' for help
2022-04-12:	Mangling your distribution version in your Apt sources for fun and profit
2022-04-11:	How Debian's procps package is surprisingly opinionated
2022-04-10:	A Linux PAM setup and the problem of stopping authentication
2022-04-09:	Understanding the effects of PAM module results ('controls' in PAM jargon)
2022-04-08:	On the ordering of password and MFA challenges during login
2022-04-07:	What goes into an X resource and its name
2022-04-06:	Fedora now has a sensible UEFI boot setup (and has for some time)
2022-04-05:	The failure of the idea of X resources
2022-04-04:	Things I needed to change for HiDPI on Linux that weren't in my X settings
2022-04-03:	Some notes on using `snmpwalk` to poke at devices with SNMP
2022-04-02:	Sorting out IPMI and BMC terminology and technology
2022-04-01:	Some notes on finding and reading information over SNMP

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