Everything you never wanted to know about the /etc/fstab File
Mounting of filesystems during the startup process is managed by the /etc/fstab configuration file.
What do AI and Timothy Leary have in common?
If you were around in the '60s, you probably know who Timothy Leary was. If you weren't around then, the short story is that he...
The secret to fixing a mangled filesystem
Modern computers and the storage devices we use in them, both HDDs and SSDs, are quite resilient. It's seldom that a power failure, tripping over...
AI slop broke Windows
30% of the code in Windows has been written by AI. At the same time, pretty much all Windows core features are broken.
Flexible updates with Linux
Flexibility is an important consideration when performing updates to your operating system. Linux gets it right.
Commands I use to explore Linux filesystems
As a SysAdmin, I need to manage the filesystems on the hosts in my home lab. There's usually little to do, but when there is...
How to generate good passwords with pwgen
Whenever I change passwords on my systems, I need to try to think up ones that will be hard to crack as well as easy...
Problems updating QT5 on Fedora 43
I've been having problems trying to install updates on my systems with graphical interfaces. This is due to a conflict with the qt5-qtwebengine-freeworld package. QT5...
Fedora 43 breaks my books
Well, it really only breaks the some of the experiments the 2nd Edition of my "Using and Administering Linux" series. This includes all three volumes...
Electric nonsense
I recently read a story on a local TV station's website that just made we want to cringe. The story was about "Phantom energy drain."...
Fedora 43 — A Second Look
I've been using Fedora 43 for a little over 3 days, since Tuesday, and I'm quite happy with it on all my systems. However, I've...
First Look at Fedora 43
Fedora 43 dropped yesterday, October 28, right on schedule. It's nice to know that I can count on version upgrades every 6 months in April...