Linux

You can normally query a Windows OEM Product Key bound to your hardware in a Linux shell quite easily:

Don’t miss to add kernel options i915.enable_dc=0 and intel_idle.max_cstate=1, if you want to run a modern arch linux on your Dell Latitude 7490.

If you want to start with Kubernetes on your workstation or even want to test with small clusters, I really recommend to take a look at Rancher’s k3s.

I want to introduce a little command fu for reporting broken symlinks on the shell, because I found several variations while searching in the net, that were not very satisfying.

In the former post Ansible meets CurseForge on Linux I described the installation and updates of Minecraft ModPacks with Ansible for Linux users.

Now it’s team to mention MultiMC for a more user-friendly solution also ready for Linux.

If you want to play modern Minecraft ModPacks on CurseForge in Java on Linux, the Twitch Launcher for Windows is not very helpful.

But since the project artifacts are available for public download and the data format is pretty straightforward, it was not a big deal to script a download of all files. I have chosen an Ansible Playbook for this task.

I have already quite a zoo of Single-Board Computers running Debian derivates, but the latest pet Raspberry Pi Zero W was the first missing standard ethernet.

If you want to reduce your nginx logs to non-personalized resp. anonymized client addresses, you may apply the following method, running a slightly changed log format after setting a new variable $remote_addr_anon.

At least on Apple’s iBook, LXDE/LXDM are not yet recommended. Even though I appreciate lean desktop environments with keyboard shortcuts there are at least these issues:

While I was doing the regular bananian-update I got a reminder, that an upgrade to Debian 8/Jessie is possible: News on 15.08