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The Memory Winter Is Here and It’s Dragging Storage With It

January 28, 2026

I keep having the same conversation with different people. It usually starts with “is now a bad time to buy servers?” and ends with someone quietly realising that the ... Read More

Computing, Hardware

Resident Elliptic SSH security key’s (Not just for Yubi Keys)

December 27, 2024

I’m writing this post to document my experience with SSH security keys, specifically when trying to make SSH keys resident on compatible FIDO2 tokens. What finally pushed me ... Read More

Computing, France, Hardware, Travel

When your hotspot is too clever for its own good

April 4, 2024

This one bit me while roaming in France and it is worth writing down because it masquerades as a network problem when it is actually the device trying to outsmart everyone ... Read More

Computing, Software

APISCP – postfix issues

August 15, 2022

So a few days ago, the Q’s Place web server ran out of space; this was related to Kopia backup caching as it couldn’t reach the remote storage server but ... Read More

Computing, Software

Joining an additional Zentyal server to your PDC

January 29, 2022

About a year ago I added a secondary domain controller to my AD setup, unfortunatly this died and I had to build a redeploy another. When joining this system to the PDC I saw ... Read More

Astronomy, Computing

Adding a USB GPS device to KStars

January 29, 2022

I’ve recently been trying out KStars on a RaspberryPi 3 (I intend on using something a little more powerful later on) to help reduce the reliance on running LOOOOOONG ... Read More

Computing, Hardware

Getting an OKI printer to scan to a domain shared folder

January 29, 2022

notes: Not working [2018/11/05 13:21:07.850805, 3] ../source3/auth/auth.c:178(auth_check_ntlm_password) check_ntlm_password: Checking password for unmapped user ... Read More

Computing, Software

Fixing a zentyal install by reinstalling

January 29, 2022

Notes Backup config Reinstall Rinstall modules Restore config Issue with keytab and samba/DNS starting via web interface 2018/11/19 00:51:06 ERROR> GlobalImpl.pm:652 ... Read More

Computing, Software, Storage

Thanks BareOS

January 24, 2021

Oh dear…. Sep 10, 2020 21:58:46.815 [0x7fe6d5396f80] ERROR - SQLITE3:(nil), 11, database corruption at line 65066 of [bf8c1b2b7a]Sep 10, 2020 21:58:46.815 ... Read More

Computing, Software

Why Proxmox and Docker are Perfect for Modern Sysadmins

March 4, 2018

I am an old school sysadmin. I still believe that operating systems should be installed with the minimum possible options, that services should only have the packages they ... Read More