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GnuPG Key Transition

  By Paul Saunders March 10, 2015 March 10, 2015 Editorial

—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA512 Date: 2015-03-10 For a number of reasons, I’ve recently set up a new OpenPGP key, and will be transitioning away from my old one. The old key will continue to be valid for some time, but I prefer all future correspondence to come to … Continue reading

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Uncrackable Passwords

  By Paul Saunders February 10, 2015 February 10, 2015 Editorial

“How long does my password have to be to be uncrackable?” This question was asked recently on IRC. The person asking it was, no doubt, expecting a simple answer such as “20 characters” or “32 letters, numbers, and punctuation”, but I wondered if there was a proper answer to this. … Continue reading

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SSH Agents and TMUX

  By Paul Saunders November 18, 2014 November 18, 2014 Work Log

I use tmux quite heavily on my server now. I like it so much, in fact, that I have my shell configured to connect to (or start) a session as soon as I log in. So, however I log in (at the console, in a terminal emulator, via SSH), I … Continue reading

Tagged   GnuPG, SSH, TMUX
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TWRP Themes (Nexus 5)

  By Paul Saunders October 24, 2014 October 24, 2014 Work Log

TWRP is a recovery image for Android devices. That is, it’s a tiny, self-contained operating system that you can boot to (often, by holding a button while booting the device) and perform operations such as backups, restores and installation of other images. One nice feature of TWRP is that it’s … Continue reading

Tagged   Android, Theming
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Adding a Graphical Desktop to RedHat Enterprise Linux [RHEL]

  By Paul Saunders August 29, 2014 August 29, 2014 Work Log

So, by mistake, I installed some of the servers at work without a graphical desktop. Now, the easy thing would have been to re-install from the DVD (and this is generally what I did), but for one of them, I’d see if I could actually install and configure the necessary … Continue reading

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Diskless Booting

  By Paul Saunders July 29, 2014 July 29, 2014 Work Log

As I mentioned earlier, I have a small (embedded style) computer that I want to use for some monitoring. My suspicion is that the SSD that’s fixed into it is causing problems, so I want to be able to boot the computer diskless (that is, I want to load the … Continue reading

Tagged   debootstrap, DHCP, diskless, IPv6, nfs, tftp
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Multi-Domain DHCP

  By Paul Saunders July 8, 2014 July 10, 2014 Work Log

Well, I’ve managed to knock down one of the tasks that’s been on my “TODO” list for a while, thanks to finding someone building PDNS debs from git. Background I live with another geek. When we moved in together, both of us had our own domains, with DHCP servers giving … Continue reading

Tagged   DHCP, DNS, DynDNS, PowerDNS

Premature Optmization

  By Paul Saunders May 14, 2014 May 9, 2020 Work Log

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Donald Knuth As part of updating my WordPress Installation for the arrival of https://paulsaunders.org.uk, I decided I’d need to add some caching in order to cope with the extra … Continue reading

Tagged   FastCGI, nginx, W3TC, Wordpress
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Powerline and IRSSI

  By Paul Saunders April 7, 2014 April 8, 2014 Work Log

IRSSI is my IRC client of choice. It’s wonderfully configurable and the interface is clean and accessible. One of the other things I’ve been playing with recently is the Powerline system of prompts. Powerline uses a clever combination of colours and a special chevron character Continue reading

Tagged   IRSSI, Powerline
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Backlog Dependencies

  By Paul Saunders February 11, 2014 February 11, 2014 Editorial

Some of you may have noticed that the blog’s been a little quiet lately. Partly that’s down to the day job turning a bit more physical (less time sat at a keyboard, more time stood in front of / behind a rack); partly that’s down to me having an idea … Continue reading

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