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Thunderbolt Laptops part 1 – Huawei MateBook X

So we’re looking for a decent laptop sporting Thunderbolt ports. TB is awesome coz it basically renders your monitor your docking station. You can charge your laptop from the monitor,…

noobient 2017-10-02No Comments

SELinux woes with Tomcat on CentOS 7.4

Update: make sure to check out the relevant post for CentOS 7.6, too! Preamble After the SELinux Crash Course it’s time to put that knowledge to good use. Keep that…

noobient 2017-10-021

SELinux Crash Course

Let’s start by stating I’m by no means an SELinux expert, but after the CentOS 7.4 upgrade hurdle I sure am more informed than I was with 7.3. So SELinux…

noobient 2017-09-281

Fixing the EFI bootloader on CentOS 7

I’m told that Grub has been rebuilt and Shim has been re-signed with 7.4 so that might be the cause, but to me this is what a new VM looks…

noobient 2017-09-27No Comments

Fiberstore 40G transceivers

Attention to detail, guys. As I mentioned earlier, fiber equipment is really picky when it comes to transceivers and stuff. The Fiberstore equipment works a treat if you pick the…

noobient 2017-09-26No Comments

Tumblr SSL available for custom domains + Twitter news

Might be old news, but I noticed this just now. The CA is, of course, Let’s Encrypt. Kudos to them for providing free certs to the world! I quickly enabled…

noobient 2017-09-22No Comments

Single slot Pascal GPUs

This post is basically note-to-self. Here’s the list of cards that I know of: ELSA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (GD1050-4GERSPT) Inno3D GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (N105T2-1SDV-M5CM) Inno3D GeForce GTX 1050…

noobient 2017-05-18No Comments