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Welcome!

"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint." -- Hesiod, Eighth Century B.C.

Crypto

• My PGP key, for paranoid people who wish to contact me.

Creations

• Art: pictures I have drawn, or otherwise computed.
• Software: interesting/useful programs written by me. Includes Solar, my University project. Mostly moved to GitHub these days.
• Is This Image Illegal?: Renders an arbitrary number as an image.
• Dotfiles: my configuration files for Bash, Vim, etc. Includes a fancy coloured prompt!
• I wrote a letter to NVIDIA, asking them to make the specifications of their graphics hardware so that free drivers could be created for them.

Guides

• PasswordGeneration: generate passwords given alphabet and desired entropy
• FreeIPA: my own notes on FreeIPA regarding stuff that I wish was in the manual
• CertmongerSELinux: when SELinux prevents your post-save command from working...
• WritingManpages: useful links to documentation
• Moving a Windows installation to a new disk - without reinstalling
• CreatingWindows10InstallerUSBFromLinux: when you need to install Windows 10 and you don't have another Windows system on which to run the Media Creation Tool...
• Some notes on performing Continuous Integration builds of Debian packages
• LinuxMultiGPUDeviceSelection: what exactly does the DRI_PRIME environment variable do?
• ... and on my pbuilder firewall setup
• The use of wrapper scripts when verifying arguments with sudo
• PodmanOnDebian: how to build the official Debian Podman packages on your own machine, while they are waiting in the NEW queue
• Tightening up the default privileges granted to users of a PostgreSQL database cluster
• Using udev rules to configure libinput to ignore an unwanted keyboard device
• Filtering Emails from Facebook based on the X-Facebook-Notify header
• FirewalldZones quick reference
• Updating the firmware of the WD Blue SA510 SATA SSD from Linux
• PKCS10CertificateSigningRequestGenerationWithOpenSSL generating private keys and CSRs the easy way
• Debian cruft: cleaning up cruft on Debian systems
• Debian Release file fields: the correct values to provide in your Release files
• Using slapd's mdb backend on Debian
• CUPS driver list: how CUPS decides which drivers are available
• CUPS URL discovery: how CUPS discovers printers and resolves printer URLs
• WindowsPrinterDiscovery: pointers to information about WS-Discovery and WS-Print
• IPP over USB: the relentless march of technology results in layering weirdness
• PythonVenvCreation: my take on the one true way to create Python virtual environments
• he.net IPv6 Tunnel configuration with systemd-networkd
• ToshibaX30X40FirmwareUpdate: updating the firmware of the Toshiba/Dynabook X30/X40 without having to install Windows
• VirtualBox raw disk access on Windows
• Preventing multiple SLF4J bindings with Gradle
• Booting your own kernel on DigitalOcean (also changing the init system to systemd)
• A short, graphical guide to using software RAID with the Debian-Installer.
• EpiphanyCookieWhitelist: configure the Epiphany web browser to only accept cookies from certain web sites.
• MailSystem: notes on configuring an email system with Exim, PostgreSQL, Dovecot IMAP, SpamAssassin, ClamAV and greylisting.
• AttachingUSBDiskToLibvirtVM
• AlteringProcessName: how to alter the names of processes on Linux.
• ApacheSecurity: various methods for configuring Apache to run virtual hosts as separate users.
• SamsungQ45: my laptop, and notes on the problems I ran into installing and using Linux on it.
• DVD quality reviews: reviews of the picture quality and DRM present on the DVDs I buy.
• PortableFilenamesOnWindows: how Microsoft make it painful to write portable programs that deal with filenames, and what to do about it.
• WindowsInstallFromUSB: throw out your DVD drive!
• DisableCapsLockIndicator from the Widcomm Bluetooth stack

Other

• Random stuff, too miscellaneous to index.
• My Amazon wish list