Privacy in Computing
For the past 15 years my "home cinema" setup has been a 55 inch Sony LED TV and an all-in-one Sony 5.1 Surround sound system with integrated Bluray player. Additionally there is a Linux VDR for FTA satellite broadcasts, and a Xiaomi Mibox streaming client.
In May 2023 we finally joined the "renewable revolution" by having photovoltaic panels installed on the roof and purchasing an inverter to feed power into the grid. Of course one of the main fascinations of the system is that one can acquire performance data from the system and graph that …
I got my start in system administration in the early 1990s, maintaining a university institute full of Sun Microsystems workstations. Those were the late days of the Unix wars, and the main contenders were Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), and Sun. Sun were well-loved …
Backups and more Network Sniffing
Loading up with Applications
Phone setup and initial impressions
Setting up the environment
Escaping the walled gardens
Not too shabby at all
More Pixels and Another Update
Lurking for years, now taking off
Xmodmap config to get the extra buttons working
Works fine; nuff said
Pixels and Updates
How to find a laptop with good Linux support and what I chose