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,… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
Red Alert 2 on Windows 10
Install Red Alert 2 with defaults (C:\Westwood\RA2). Install the Red Alert 2 1.006 patch. Run Ra2.exe as administrator once. This registers some type libraries as needed. Apply the required compatibility… Read more »
Oracle ZFS Appliance 40GBE arrived
Turns out, Vivaldi goes to the previous page by pressing Ctrl+left arrow. Along with Alt+left arrow. I learned this the hard way, after almost completing this blogpost. I could kill…. Read more »
Site name change
I was never satisfied with the previous name (for the unintroduced, it was Vault-Tec). It was a way too obvious reference to Fallout and made it impossible to build any… Read more »