Recent content by uc50ic4more

Good gravy, I wouldn't be surprised if most operations happened "instantaneously" with this thing.

Vegan and organic :)

Personally I would run the ethernet and run a bunch of cheap access points from those ethernet jacks. Ubiquiti sells a great little PoE (Power over Ethernet) system with a central switch, a firewall and as many access points as you wish after that.

I really like that Mint offers a few different upgrade options. Updating a kernel unnecessarily is only asking for trouble and I have had my issues both desktop- and server-side with new kernels borking drivers or requiring server reboots. Mint offers options that range from "stay as up-to-date...

Very recent blog post from Clem (Founder and Head Honcho of Mint) about how many users are not properly keeping their systems updated: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4030

And irrespective of what you choose to "share" your phone's location is always available to someone. Taking a look at directions from one point to another in Google Maps, for example, will often show you traffic patterns and expected delays. This is accomplished by aggregating movement data from...

If HP support is suggesting a BIOS reset, I begin to wonder if the CMOS battery ought to be replaced. Especially if it is an older system, a ~$0.50 1032 watch battery is usually the type that is visible on the motherboard. When those begin to go, all sorts of hilarity ensue.

There was PC-BSD, DragonflyBSD and GhostBSD a while back; and more recently TrueOS who just shut down. https://www.truenas.com/trueos-discontinuation/ GhostBSD is still going. It looks like a MATE desktop.

You can set a device to use a different DNS server which would bypass whatever your router is using. You can also enable DoH (DNS over HTTPS) in very recent versions of (at least) Firefox and Chrome which would bypass the device-level setting. Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 and Google's 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4...

I've tried a GUI on CentOS (8, Gnome 3.32) both as a GUI for the server and as a workstation. But if I ever do feel a need to administer a server with a GUI I'll just use Cockpit - Plus, all of the servers I have in various clouds are modest enough that there aren't any GPU's involved. As a...

RHEL is no-cost for up to 16 installations now. CentOS as we knew it goes EOL at the end of 2021 for 8.x and some time in 2024 for 7.x. They've replaced CentOS with CentOS Stream, a rolling release tracking just ahead of RHEL point releases.

Every device on my network has a static IP, else it would be a nightmare having devices "talk" to each other. From a security perspective, having my ISP grant me a static IP allows me to allow remote logins (SSH) on my web site servers (hosted at a variety of data centres) from only my IP. I...

2x/ year; usually at the beginning of spring and autumn.

If it worked prior, and doesn't work consistently now, and you haven't changed anything that would affect boot devices, something is getting funky. Back up your data ASAP. I would then check that all the cables are seated properly (unplug 'em, compressed air, plug 'em back in). I would then...

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