Why Octopress? Well I’m spending an awful lot of time chasing updates for my Wordpress and Drupal instances. Octopress, seems to be a saner choice for my simple blogging needs.

At http://www.pcfe.net/boot/ I have dropped the files necessary to iPXE boot. While my set up will not serve you, you can follow the steps in 00-readme.txt if you want to build your own.

In February 2013, I got a new work laptop. It’s a Lenovo ThinkPad x230.

These are my installation notes.

Today is not only Valentine’s Day, it is also I love Free Software Day.

If you use free software, do take a moment to say thank you to one of the dedicated hard-working people in the Free Software community.

my connection with Kabel Deutschland is finally up and running. On Friday my flat finally got it’s coax uplink.

this machine is now using a StartCom SSL certificate.

My old WordPress blog is now up again. I had run into RHBZ #891717.

sorry about this taking so long. As of now blog.pcfe.net uses a CAcert signed certificate.

Got myself 4m of ws2801 LED Strip and a Teensy 3.0

Turns out this is a neat combination.

Got this coaster from my good friend Taru.

To have chromium (and chrome) browser do Kerberos TGT for example.com web pages, one needs to pass --auth-server-whitelist="*.example.com"

changing providers I adjusted the old script to fit my router, using PPPoE but not NetworkManager.

Create /etc/ppp/ip-up.local with this content