Privacy in Computing
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 data to see how the system is doing. "kWh peeping" instead of "pixel peeping" if you will...
There are lots of howtos describing how to …
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 in the Universities - the machines weren't the greatest, neither was their software, but all around they had a reasonable package at a reasonable price.
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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