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 …
12 Dec 2022
When accessing a KVM virtual machine over WAN (the internet), I've noticed painfully slow performance.
It turns out that the default spice viewer when a machine is configured using virt-manager …
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 …
09 Jan 2022
This is an update to by previous post for
Debian 11.
If you want to install Debian on an existing luks encrypted device then the easiest way I've found is …
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 …
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 …
29 Apr 2018
I have an existing Ubuntu installation paritioned like this:
sda1 ext4 / boot
sda2 luks crypt
---- crypt pv for lvm with group root
---- ---- lvm root
---- ---- ---- root ext4 /
---- ---- ---- swap swap
---- ---- ---- home ext4 …