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LattePanda Gigglescore
A Gigglescore is a ratio score of price to performance for single-board-computers like the LattePanda or Raspberry Pi. A lower Gigglescore means a better value for the money. A higher one is worse. You can see more here: https://gigglescore.com/ My LattePanda: sudo ./benchmark.sh 149 Repository ‘openSUSE-Leap-15.0-Non-Oss’ is up to date. Repository ‘openSUSE-Leap-15.0-Oss’ is up to […]
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Documentation and Asciidoc
A few weeks ago I wrote a guide for installing OpenSUSE Kubic. I wrote it using my team at work’s lab manual templates in LibreOffice and then exported the output as a PDF. If you ever take a course from SUSE Training, you will receive a complete lab manual like this as a part of […]
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Onion Services in Windows 10
Notes: The following is a proof of concept tutorial on how to create a Tor onion service on Windows 10 using Ubuntu in Windows Subsystem for Linux. This has not been security tested by anyone in the Tor project. It is also not exactly the same directions that I would give someone who wants create […]
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Does it Leak? — Tumbleweed Edition
The following is a spreadsheet that I put together this weekend testing Linux applications and how well the work on Tor. The first column is the name of the application and the second is the Linux distribution. In this case, I am using the latest build of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with the latest patches applied. The […]
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Anonymity is Important
Let’s begin with something useful. In order to use Tor, you ideally need a browser that can access it. The Tor Browser on desktop platforms, formerly known as the Tor Browser Bundle, and the Orfox Browser with the Orbot app on Android are the suggested browsers. Why? Tor takes anonymity seriously. The four log entries […]
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Installing The Tor Browser
We’ll do this in four parts for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android users. Windows Go to: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Download the latest version for Windows Run the installer You will now see a new folder on your Desktop. Open that and run Tor Browser. Click Connect Congrats, you are on Tor! Go to https://check.torproject.org/ in the Tor […]
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We Do It For the Children
I’m staying in a hotel chain in London only to find a firewall that throttles interesting stuff like BBC iPlayer and YouTube. I tried going to my VPN provider. That the website is blocked to protect children and vulnerable people. What?! Meanwhile I have no trouble connecting to #4chan because they only care so much […]
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My Day with Fedora
I used Fedora 28 today for work instead of my usual OpenSUSE Leap 15 installation. Here’s how it went. My setup: Intel© Core™ i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz × 2 16GB Ram 250G SSD Here’s the software that I needed for work today: Synergy LibreOffice > 6.0 Chromium Browser Spotify NFS virt-manager Graphical multi-tab text editor […]
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I need a new open source project
A few years ago I wrote this rousing email about the Linux Documentation Project and I made waves in a mailing list that lay mostly dormant for years. After the list was rejuvenated, I set out to learn git, then then to find pieces of Linux documentation all around the web and add it. The idea […]
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Adventures with Kubeadm on OpenSUSE Kubic
This video is a little kludgy. It was literally my first time putting together the cluster and if you notice at the end, it doesn’t actually work. None of the worker nodes are actually usable. Hopefully that will be fixed soon. linux-3q2c:~ # kubectl get nodes NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION linux-3q2c NotReady master 3m […]