Last week’s PineBook Pro review was so well received I thought you’d enjoy a some tips on using it. Here’s a list that’s come in very handy for me as I break mine in:
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The Pinebook Pro ships with Manjaro + KDE. Manjaro is very popular at Distrowatch and it’s been some time since I last tried it so I’m having fun checking it out again.
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In this sequel to last month’s blog, A Week of Attack Stats, we are expanding our stat survey using the same data collection methods while excluding the original week’s stats. Let’s see if our assertion of a causal relationship between social isolation and cyber attacks remains true.
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The new version of Zoom will be mandatory on May 30th. It has been available since April 27th as an optional upgrade but users running older versions will not be able to join calls after the 30th. Many very good enhancements have been added to client: SSH uses GCM encryption, IPsec, OpenVPN, TLS, and others as well.
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We ran into a unique problem last month - we had a small console server to install at a colo facility for out-of-band console access. Unfortunately our gear is sandwiched between other equipment and is in a two post rack so we couldn’t easily put the console server nearby. What to do?! 3D-print a bracket to attach to the back of the existing equipment and mount the console server, obviously!
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The whole system needs an overhaul: encryption is generally not recommended or tacked on as an afterthought, UIDs are ancient and unneeded, and everyone tacks on their own implementations haphazardly leading to accounts-daemon or pam_limits or even ldap/active directory configuration.
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