Can you replace the CMOS battery with a supercapacitor that is kept charged? This should not need to be replaced every 4 years, I think.

Workstations machines get first name type names that are inspired by the brand of the machine. This asus is named adam.

Just never make it lie…

One place I worked we had a rule - do not name a server for any group using it. It seems the groups become territorial when you try to add a different group to “their” server.

T: "Tay" (a mythical creature from Scottish folklore, often described as a small, elf-like being)
U: "Ufi" (a legendary creature from Native American folklore, said to resemble a small humanoid figure)
V: "Vim" (a mythical creature from Hindu mythology, sometimes depicted as a bird-like being)
W: "Wyy" (inspired by the Wyvern, a legendary creature similar to a dragon but with only two legs)
X: "Xin" (a mythical creature from Chinese mythology, often depicted as a lion-like beast)
Y: "Yen" (a legendary creature from Vietnamese folklore, resembling a large, serpent-like creature)
Z: "Ziz" (a mythical creature from Jewish mythology, described as a giant bird)

Not so much servers as removable media. Three letter creature names: ape, bat, cat, dog, elk, fox, gnu, hen, imp, jay, kit, lee (fish), mus, nan (from Inuit folklore), owl, pug, qua, rat, sas (from Slavic folklore) and so on (I need to find my printed list beyond here)

Don’t remove the back door from your house, bar it with a sturdy 2x4 that holds it closed. Just be sure to use a 2x4 that is not made weak by the application of a specific chemical that only the secret bad guy knows about.

Well, at least it has a USB3 slot - you could put a NVME drive in a USB3 external case and boot that way.

I wonder if you can replace the storage element with something bigger. It might be a data drive or an M.2 drive. You could replace either with a bigger device.

Would the Pi automatically set an APIPA address if DHCP was not available? If so he need only connect the cable, and ask each machine what their address is.

That, and the fact that Spam abatement is a terrible chore. Whackamole at its worst.

Error 418

Can a computer monitor with an HDMI port stand in for a TV?

An Open Source UPS anyone - Eric S. Raymond

• https://gitlab.com/esr/upside

• http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7881

File sharing / storage via SSH, Minecraft server.

notepadqq in Linux

Good - my daily driver workstation is an i7 laptop running Kubuntu (auto correct wants me to run base Ubuntu ).

Cool - I probably won’t be using it on my Android phone. I keep it regularly copied to my workstation.

Thanks!

Will I be able to just launch Tailscale as a part of my normal startup? Can Tailscale start ‘invisibly’ that is without any interaction from me as I turn on and login?

rsync:

#! /usr/bin/sh


TIMESTAMP_LOG="/path/to/logdir/.backuplog"
BACKUP_DEST="server:/path/to/backup/$1"
TIMESTAMP=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:$M:%S")

echo "backup to:$BACKUP_DEST"
echo "Backup: $BACKUP_DEST $TIMESTAMP" >> $TIMESTAMP_LOG
pause
rsync -auvh /path/to/homedir* rhudson@$BACKUP_DEST

This should be called with a name of a target subdirectory in BACKUP_DEST… mine are rsynca, rsyncb, rsyncc but I will change this soon for day of week based directories.

I also have certificate authentication setup on ssh on my server - that’s why no password is needed.

Someday I will set up tailscale between this machine and the server.