One of the best things about any Debian/Ubuntu Linux variant (there are many based on Debian and Ubuntu) is its package manager, apt. Other distributions have their own package managers, but apt is my favorite. Want to get your Linux installation up ...

Okay, I know it's supposed to be Trivia Tuesday, but both end in "day". Oh, and they both start with "T". So good enough. Here are a couple irrelevant trivia questions for you: 1. In what "superhero" comedy does someone say, "We are on a blind date w...

This past week I've been setting up a local Kubernetes test bed for Full Stack Observability testing. I set up two Proxmox servers on mini-PCs and installed Ubuntu 22.04 server virtual machines on each of them. Why Ubuntu 22.04? Because there's a ver...

We currently have a community section called "observability". Most people I know have no idea what that's supposed to mean. Topics like Cisco "Thousand Eyes" fall into that category, because it lets you observe network traffic the same way you might ...

Okay, let me set up the reason for this mess. My Radeon 5700 XT was misbehaving, so I picked up a used NVidia 2070 Super from eBay (a risky decision, I know). I don't do much gaming anymore, so I really don't need a fancy schmanzy gaming card, but it...