17 Feb 2024
I upgraded my main machine from Debian Buster (11) to Debian Bookworm (12) this weekend.
Prior to the upgrade I had a Kensington thunderbolt dock connected which connects to an …
25 Nov 2022
I've encountered a few issues when using x11vnc to remotely connect to and existing runing X session.
Here they are and the fixes for them:
Server crashes with caught XIO …
17 Oct 2022
When installing OpenBSD 7.1 on a KVM virtual machine I had significant keyboard lag and
repeated key strokes, to fix this I switched the Display from "Spice server" to …
27 Sep 2022
When installing WSL on a VM inside QEMU/KVM the default CPU configuration
causes windows to bail after install with preparing to automatically repair.
The solution, change the CPU to …
30 Mar 2022
In the past week I've encountered an error when trying to run aws ecs execute-command
on
a Fargate container running platform 1.4.0.
This worked fine on containers created …
20 Jul 2021
This is one of those weird edge cases that probably few people will ever encounter.
The Problem
In a probably over complicated attempt at simplifying my working life I wanted …
19 Jun 2021
I recently purchased a refurbished Lenovo X270 and installed Debian testing on it using KDE as
the desktop environment.
After logging in the screen brightness flickered, this was most noticeable …
30 May 2021
Updated for Gnu Cash 4.4 on KUbuntu 21.04
The register input shows as black text on a black background even with the old overrides.
This snippet makes the …
27 Oct 2020
In Ubuntu 20.04 on some macs (mine is a 2015 MBP), at boot there is the message "Failed to set MokListRT: Invalid Parameter"
To solve it run
15 Jan 2020
When using hdparm -I
on a group of Seagate USB hard drives attached to a raspberry pi 4 the output included the following error:
SG_IO : bad / missing sense data , sb …