System Administration

Writing in the previous post in the series about the way I like my interactive shell to be configured, I did touch on the context aspect briefly: Well, OK, maybe the other nicety is using a right-hand prompt as well for some stuff (mainly context info, like venv etc.) I

On May 13, Hell froze over, and Oracle released Solaris 11.4.81 CBE. I just want to point out that this really doesn't make Oracle any less shitty—this will never change, but now they're still shitty but with a fresh Solaris 11 control. Well,

We are not enemies either. These days I'm mostly indifferent, that's all. I used to oppose K8S with every inch of my body. Not anymore, at least. Frankly, it's not K8S that bothers me—it's everything that comes along and around it.

I've been meaning to start this (what I hope will eventually become) series for a very long time. There's a lot I'd like to cover, and it was daunting to figure out how to actually get going. I think this quick introduction is going

Here's what I wrote, almost 9y ago: After seven years of maintaining PPA with custom packages for Debian, I now decided to finally drop and close it. I no longer use Debian as my main Linux distribution hence I have no need nor interest in providing any builds

OPNsense 24.1 releasedOPNsense 24.1 released Last summer I finally bit the bullet and decided to setup a firewall at home. I went with cheap Mini PC with dual NICs to serve this purpose. My initial choice of the operating system went to pfSense, but with all the drama