Not long ago, I bought a laptop with Nvidia card. Partially because I wanted to check out some newer, fancy games (but in reality, when I do have some free time finally, I usually end up playing DOS games anyway). …
Often, the Internet can seem like the wild wild west (or the wild wild east, depends on where you are located), and you can be fairly certain that any public facing service will draw some amount of brute force attacks …
I’ve been running an instance of Observium for a couple of years now. I had set it up for the VPS which I’m running this blog on or for my home NAS, it’s really nice to be able to see …
Even if it’s still in pre-Beta, it has been publicly known that RHEL 9.0 development is well under way for some time now. But that’s not all there is to it – not only is this information public, the development …
As far as desktop environments go, I somehow got stuck in the Gnome 2 days, and when Gnome 3 became a thing, I simply carried on with its fork, Mate. Partially because I was used to it, but more importantly, …
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I have to say I feel slightly ambiguous about Flatpak. On one hand, I’m really glad it allows me to run applications like Spotify, Zoom or Skype on my computers in a convenient way. Applications that are not open sourced, …
I had to update an already unsupported Postgresql instance running on version 9.3 to the latest version 11. Luckily, this process is quite straightforward and all the hard lifting is done by the postgresql update tool. The only problem there …
Beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 was announced recently. It can be downloaded without any registration, or you can go through the Developers Program and get a subscription for development usage for free. I downloaded the ISO this …
Note: I wrote this post during Christmas break 2017, but it took me some time before I managed to give it a better form, verify the steps again and publish it. Hence some Xmas references in a text published during …
For quite some time, I used to have a low-end motherboard that didn’t support Wake on LAN. So when I left for work or holiday, I would usually leave my home PC on, because sometimes I just needed to access …