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Nov 7, 2020

Flashing the QNAP QNA-UC5G1T on a Mac

Note that since I managed to brick one adapter trying to do this I disclaim responsibility if you, dear reader, try it and fail. On the other hand, I searched the Internet high and low for anyone else that was successful flashing these adapters without a physical Windows machine. …

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Flashing the QNAP QNA-UC5G1T on a Mac
Flashing the QNAP QNA-UC5G1T on a Mac
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Oct 10, 2020

Keyboard.io’s Atreus

This might be the best keyboard I have ever used. — There’s something about computer keyboards…even in this age of tablets and phones they remain the primary way we get significant amounts of text and code into computers. I’ve spent time with the original IBM Model M “buckling spring”, the first generation Kinesis Advantage, ThinkPad keyboards (still one of the absolute…

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Keyboard.io’s Atreus
Keyboard.io’s Atreus
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Aug 11, 2018

Beware Amazon Teen Logins

If you pay for the privilege of Amazon Prime, Amazon has a new feature they have quietly rolled out that changes the way your family members interact with your Prime Membership. The tl;dr is that if you are grandfathered into the older method of family management that enabled you to…

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Beware Amazon Teen Logins
Beware Amazon Teen Logins
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Mar 3, 2016

Was this information helpful?

After helping a friend troubleshoot issues stemming from the difference between Microsoft’s MSI and Click-to-Run installers, I am now convinced that all knowledge base articles that ask for feedback need an additional checkbox. (background, friend had legal Office 2013 license installed via MSI. Bought Project as a downloadable online. Project uses Click-to-Run installer. This article says that MSI and CTR versions cannot co-exist, and to fix the problem he needs to uninstall Office.)

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Feb 16, 2016

LXC on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

I’ve been enjoying OpenSUSE’s Tumbleweed distribution. It has all of the benefits of a rolling release like Arch without some of the instability. Unfortunately, my standby for lots of testing, LXC, doesn’t quite work out of the box. …

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Jan 27, 2015

Mitigating GHOST with Salt

Using SaltStack to recover from CVE-2015–0235 (Qualys Security Advisory, GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow) Most of us sysadmin types were pounded with this announcement this morning. …

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Jan 25, 2015

Removing WireLurker with Salt · Nickelblog

Claud Xiao from Palo Alto Networks has been in touch with me and I updated this script with his recommendations. Please note I don’t plan to add Windows support, the anti-malware vendors do a great job maintaining signatures and removing stuff like this. The news hit the fan early yesterday…

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Jan 25, 2015

Installing Mac OS X 10.9.2 with Salt. · Nickelblog

Several weeks ago I installed Salt on all my Macs. I have 7 currently, two of which cannot run Mavericks and are stuck at Lion (10.7). …

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