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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, 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