asus pn50 and cpufreq/boost
I’ve been using an ASUS PN50 (that’s a mini pc, with an AMD Ryzen 4800u processor – so sort of a laptop without a screen) as my desktop for ages.Increasingly I’ve found it sluggish and I was...
View Articlebash – escaping variables for use within commands
Escaping quotes within variables is always painful in bash (somehow) – e.g. foo”bar and it’s not obvious that you’d need to write e.g. “foo”\””bar” (at least to me). Thankfully a bash built in magical...
View ArticleBeelink SER6 Max
“New PC Time” I’ve had an ASUS PN50 (AMD 4800u processor) as my desktop/daily driver for sometime, and it’s nice and power efficient, but increasingly I found it being slow. I eventually discovered I...
View ArticleTumbleweed…
Does anyone else care about having a blog any longer? The post Tumbleweed… first appeared on David Goodwin.
View ArticleUpgrade some things
Well, I sort of realised I had a web server or two that were still on Debian Buster, and it was time to move to Bullseye or Bookworm. As usual the Debian upgrade procedure was mostly pretty straight...
View ArticleMinimal WordPress Fail2ban integration
I used to have a fail2ban filter etc setup to look for POST requests to wp-login.php; but the size of the Apache log files on one server made this infeasible (it took fail2ban too long to parse/process...
View Articlessh signed git commits
git config –global gpg.format sshgit config –global user.signingkey ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pubgit config –global commit.gpgsign true Hopefully that’ll result in my github commits being signed…. and when I...
View ArticleLetsEncrypt + Azure Keyvault + Application gateway
A few years ago I setup an Azure Function App to retrieve a LetsEncrypt certificate for a few $work services. Annoyingly that silently stopped renewing stuff. Given I’ve no idea how to update it etc or...
View Articleclassicpress
Well, I never really ‘got’ the block editor (Gutenberg – wordpress block editor) – probably due to a lack of use … so I’ve moved this site over to ClassicPress ( thank you LWN – ClassicPress article )
View Articleatuin – console shell history search
As a random, useful, console tool … try atuin for some magical shell history searching. I’m too lazy to try and record a semi-useful demo of it, but it’s replaced my ‘ctrl+r’ lookup thingy and has a...
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