Long-term Device UseLong-term Device Use
It seems to me that Android phones have recently passed the stage where hardware advances are well ahead of software bloat. This is the point that desktop PCs passed about[...]
Author: etbe
Are Men the Victims?Are Men the Victims?
A very famous blog post is Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is by John Scalzi [1]. In that post he clearly describes that life isn’t great for[...]
Photograph Your WorkPhotograph Your Work
One thing I should have learned before (but didn’t) and hope I’ve learned now is to photograph sysadmin work. If you work as a sysadmin you probably have a good[...]
Words Have MeaningsWords Have Meanings
As a follow-up to my post with Suggestions for Trump Supporters [1] I notice that many people seem to have private definitions of words that they like to use. There[...]
Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6
In February I reviewed a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 1 [1] that I bought on Ebay. I have just been supplied the 6th Generation of the Thinkpad X1 Carbon for[...]
Fail2banFail2ban
I’ve recently setup fail2ban [1] on a bunch of my servers. It’s purpose is to ban IP addresses associated with password guessing – or whatever other criteria for badness you[...]
Google and Certbot (Letsencrypt)Google and Certbot (Letsencrypt)
Like most people I use Certbot AKA Letsencrypt to create SSL certificates for my sites. It’s a great service, very easy to use and it generally works well. Recently the[...]
Suggestions for Trump SupportersSuggestions for Trump Supporters
I’ve had some discussions with Trump supporters recently. Here are some suggestions for anyone who wants to have an actual debate about political issues. Note that this may seem harsh[...]
Passwords Used by DaemonsPasswords Used by Daemons
There’s a lot of advice about how to create and manage user passwords, and some of it is even good. But there doesn’t seem to be much advice about passwords[...]
Cooperative LearningCooperative Learning
This post is about my latest idea for learning about computers. I posted it to my local LUG mailing list and received no responses. But I still think it’s a[...]