Yearly Archives: 2026

The title says it all. Sometimes it’ll be fine all day or, like this morning, it’ll die three times in two hours. I have been working with the company that sold me the machine for a long time, but they’ve been unable to find out what’s wrong and their final […]

I recently purchased a Windows 7 Ultimate retail DVD because I wanted to experience using Windows 7 again. I know I can rip the original DVD to create an ISO file, transfer it to a USB drive, and install Windows from there. However, that’s not what I’m looking for. Is […]

My Windows box no longer seems to sleep. I’ll come back to it in the morning, and it’s still perky, having run all night. It used to sleep. Not sleeping is a security issue — if I am away from my desk suddenly and forget to manually sleep, I want […]

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I’ve recently encountered numerous failures of the eMMC drives on two of my Mixtile Blade 3 SBCs (four in a Ceph cluster): The drive announces a ”cache flush error” (errno 110), goes offline, and is then remounted in read-only state: [93724.175631] mmc0: cache flush error -110 [93724.175689] I/O error, dev […]

I’m looking to give my own script permission to run as root using the SETUID similar to how the linux command ‘passwd’ does. Motivation here is to add graphical elements using Zenity to some of my scripts but the script would need to run as root and not ask for […]

I was on a domain, a tab opened, and after a series of redirections, I landed on another page. I suspect there is some kind of advertisement scam somewhere (the end point being a legitimate business, but the initial domain, let’s say, I was visiting to try and collect malware) […]

I have a Hewlett-Packard (HP) Pavilion P6636F desktop and the original hard drive gave out so I wanted to know when replacing the hard drive do all the string of numbers need to match? For example WD1001FAES-60Z2A0.