I've been using my mod of this handy script to block countries with iptables. One issue with the script is that it is adding...

Usually I try to keep politics out of my blog, but this time I just can't resist. A few days after Trump fires Bolton...

I did the only sensible thing and disabled automatic updates on my two Windows 10 laptops. Microsoft's belated foray into the world of CI/CD for...

I can't recall the last time I needed to convert a CD to ISO. I have four laptops and not one even has a...

Longwood Gardens is an American botanical garden. It consists of over 1,077 acres of gardens, woodlands, and meadows in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States...

While ffmpeg has multithreading capability, getting the best performance on multi-core systems calls for something more than just playing with the -threads option. I've...

Nothing fancy here: just a quick note on directing Windows event logs and select application logs to a remote syslog server. For a Unix admin,...

Does your laptop sound like a fully-loaded B-52 bomber going for a takeoff? I have a Dell XPS-15. These generally well-regarded machines are also...

Here's an oldie from two years ago that reared its ugly head on Pocket: Starting Your Day on the Internet Is Damaging Your Brain,...