Linux
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Out of the ashes of neglect
If you skim the archives on this site, the story writes itself: a long quiet stretch after 2016, a small burst of life in 2023 when I got things out of a corner and into a BastilleBSD jail, and then another jump this year when the whole thing landed in Kubernetes. Yesterday—literally yesterday—the front page
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I’m in a Kubernetes pod!
Migrated this largely neglected time-capsule from the BastilleBSD jail to my local Kubernetes cluster. The operation was largely AI driven, courtesy of Cursor. It’s noticeably more performant now that’s it’s not running on a single aging Atom box!
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Brother MFC-495cw on Ubuntu 64-bit
Having a new addition to the family (our new month old daughter, Allison) my wife was itching to begin printing some photos to get started on a “Baby’s first year” type of scrapbook. Unfortunately our HP Officejet printer decided that it was above the task of putting ink on paper some time ago. No amount
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Experimenting with Fedora
About a month ago, I reached the breaking point of my own curiosity and decided to wipe out my Ubuntu installation in favor of the latest Fedora release. The VAIO notebook I loaded it on has typically served as my ‘plaything’ machine, as opposed to being my primary workhorse computer. Due to this choice of
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Radeon Mobility Blacklist in Hardy Beta
Not being a man of patience, I figured with the final release of Gnome 2.22 included in the latest Hardy Beta, now would be a good time to jump on the Hardy band-wagon. Everything seems to be working solid. They’ve even included the previously missing Keyspan module. Woo hoo! Unfortunately I did run into one
