And why I don’t run Arch btw… I think most people following this blog should by now be aware that my operating system of choice is neither Windows nor MacOS, although I recently tried both again. The fact I did run both of them again and tried to port my workflow all over again made […]
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The search for the ultimate computing experience, Pt. 2
It has been a while First up, sorry, it took longer than expected and I am still not there yet, but at least I have some insight now I am ready to share. Where I am at by now In short, about to give up. A bit longer, keep on reading. The issues As you […]
The search for the ultimate computing experience
What the hell is he about again? This is something that has been in my head for some time now, we are all surrounded by various computing devices, all running different operating systems, supporting different programs and working differently. And frankly that is not a very good way to work, at least for me, because […]
In 80 days around CentOS 8 or faster…
The Background As some might know, I recently took a step forward in my life and became a home owner, but given I am a Linux nut and IT-Guy and the former owner left behind a 19 inch rack, it became clear very fast that a new server needed to be bought and installed, both […]
Thoughts on digital life
My first computer, way back, was a stand alone device, not connected to anything but a printer, mouse, keyboart and crt monitor, it had less hdd space than my laptop today has ram and a single core cpu running at some MHz yes M and if I remember correctly that was a two digit number. […]
20,000 leagues under the seas of docker, part 1
They used a whale as their icon, what other headline was I supposed to use? So call me Aronnax and let’s search for that mysterious whale everyone is talking about. Please do not expect this to be a review of docker or anything like that, my intention for these pages is to serve as a […]
Taking on Spotify, amazon music, google play music and apple music
Well, at least one of them was creative when it came to choosing a name… But before we get started, I would like to make one little remark, this blog entry was requested by two people on fosstodon.org. At least I think that is what they meant by: “Please blog about your experience”. So people […]
The, or better, my main problem with Linux, a thought on cascading privacy and what I mean by that, other oses and how I should use shorter titles
First up, let me apologize for having posted anything in a while, but rebooting the company after lockdown has eaten up a lot of my time and I somehow did not want to spend the free time left sitting in front of a screen. There also have been some developments in my private life that […]
Getting into penetration-testing
Introduction Recently I came up with a new idea, I usually revert back to my lazy self on weekends, sleeping long and doing pretty much nothing productive at all, which is a lot of wasted time. So I challenged myself to acquire one new skill each weekend in May, see how it goes and maybe […]
Ubuntu 20.04
After spending some time with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) I figured I’ll publish a short install guide and my initial thoughts on the OS, so let’s get into it. Installing Installation of 20.04 is pretty straight forward for those who already installed Ubuntu before. If you have not, please feel free to follow these […]