Net Promoter Score Sucks
Have you ever been asked, on a scale of 0 from 10, how likely you were to recommend a company to someone? If so, you …
Agreement isn’t accuracy
I finally got my GPS-locked NTP server on the network. For grins, I added a few of my servers to its ntp.conf file for monitoring. …
Pull-through mirrors
Maybe it’s because I like to complicate things, but I often end up with multiple servers running the same Linux distro, and they would benefit …
Setting up BuyVM anycast on Rocky Linux 9
(This should be the same for RHEL 9, Rocky 9, and AlmaLinux 9.) A neat feature of FranTech / BuyVM is that, if you have …
NTP, NTS, and Brazil
I haven’t really paid it much attention, but NTS enables cryptographic signatures on NTP traffic to prevent tampering. Why? My first reaction was, “Why? Is …
Field Day
It’s been years–over a decade, and likely closer to two!–since I’ve participated in the ARRL’s Field Day, but I’ve been thinking about entering as a …
Inclusive Language
It took me a fairly long time to really “get” this, and I think a lot of people still aren’t there yet: The goal of …
FBI PFT
For a while now I’ve been interested in trying to use the FBI’s Physical Fitness Test (PFT) as a rubric for getting into shape. (PDF …
Specifying multiple yum mirrors
It seems like every few years I come back to the same issue: when repos in /etc/yum.repos.d/ use a mirrorlist line, I invariably get some …
Thinking about bulk-tuner PCBs
A while back, I found that there are a handful of places that allow you to build custom PCBs, like JLC PCB. (This is not …