2017 Archives

You can’t use consumer GPUs in datacenters

I want to make this clear once and for all. That statement is not a possibility, that’s not coincidence, that’s not a may be, that’s not a liability. It’s a…

noobient 2017-12-26No Comments

Migrating your /home to Btrfs

There may be several reasons to switch to Btrfs, for me personally it’s because my KF2 server is eating up too much space, and Btrfs supports both compression and deduplication.…

noobient 2017-12-22No Comments

Ubuntu 17.10 corrupts your BIOS

First they only destroyed your disks, then they went hand in hand with their wonderful Debian upstream onto rendering SSL useless without anyone noticing for years (manyeyeballs, aka the power…

noobient 2017-12-20No Comments

Google plans to remove apps misusing Accessibility Services

Because security or something. Instead of fixing their shit, they just remove a hand-picked bunch of apps using it in a way it wasn’t really intended to be used in.…

noobient 2017-11-14No Comments

Silent SELinux denies on CentOS

You do something, and it won’t work. In this example it’s Tomcat trying to delete a file. You already wrote an SELinux module to allow reads, but now you need…

noobient 2017-11-08No Comments

Cheap Fanless Mini PC with Dedicated GPU

Update 2: now I have a new build with the J5005, without a dGPU, under 2.5L. Update: ASRock have released a new, similar motherboard, the J4105B-ITX, based on the Gemini…

noobient 2017-11-04No Comments

Cheap VPS – DigitalOcean vs Linode vs Vultr

Update: check out the newer comparison for current prices! I’ve been a longtime DigitalOcean customer and I can honestly say their service is excellent. But when you’re on a tight…

noobient 2017-10-24No Comments