When I got a new desktop computer I ran into issues with DisplayPort. My screens worked just fine (even in UHD, albeit at only 30Hz.) with the DVI cables, but when I’d hook them up with DisplayPort cables, I’d get a ‘No signal’. For some reason, this only occurred with 3rd party DP-cables. The cable […]
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Earlier today the Swedish Police has taken down The Pirate Bay (TPB) once again. TPB has been taken down before, but usually rises like a phoenix from the ashes in little or no time. If you really can’t wait for that, here are some alternative options: EZTV – a TV torrent distribution group founded in
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Apparently even multinational insurance companies forget to pay their bills every now and then. At least that’s what I suspect happened to If Skadeförsäkring AB. The following domains no longer have any DNS records all of a sudden: if.no – If Forsikring AS (Norway) if.dk – If Skadeforsikring (Denmark) if.fi – If Vahinkovakuutusyhtiö Oy (Finland)
If… things go wrong Read More »
As I was watching a couple of episodes of The Goldbergs it occurred to me that the voice of Jeff Garlin sounded so familiar, especially when he was raising his voice (he does that a lot). It took me a while, but then I realized his voice is pretty much identical to the voice of
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Now that the hardware has been decided upon and ordered, it’s time to decide on OS & management tools. My current box runs Ubuntu, and I use virt-manager to create & manage the VM’s. The obvious disadvantage of virt-manager is that it’s an GUI application which runs on the server itself. To access it I
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For at least 5 years (I honestly don’t recall when I put the box together…) there’s a been an Antec Mini P180 purring under my desk. This machine has been running various flavors & versions of Linux, mainly performing as KVM host. This box contains 4 hard drives, and a Intel Q9400S CPU. (For those
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