I want to install some software to check it out (MySQL and MySQL Workbench) but I’m having trouble making it work on Debian. So I decided to spin up an Ubuntu instance for this job. I picked Kubuntu 24.04 (Ubuntu with KDE Plasma desktop) and this is my first go at using Ubuntu 24.04. Figured I should document the installation experience, which I have done here.
This is a note for Future John about how to report a recent coredump (with debugging symbols) on Debian:
DEBUGINFOD_URLS="https://debuginfod.debian.net" coredumpctl gdb
Then bt is a magical gdb command to run to give you the call stack of the thread which… failed?
This is a note for Future John.
I recently installed W3 Total Cache for WordPress for my blog.
Then I started having this weird problem where sometimes when I loaded the blog home page I would see binary garbage rendered as text in my browser. I think the problem was either that the Content-Type header was being set incorrectly or that the data was being double gzipped.
On the second assumption I found this setting:
W3 Total Cache > General Settings > Browser Cache > Enable HTTP (gzip) compression.
I disabled HTTP (gzip) compression and now my page seems to be working correctly again. But I will need to keep an eye on it. If you have a problem accessing my blog, please let me know!
I have been rolling out CloudFront for a few of my domains, including blog.jj5.net.
In order to integrate CloudFront with WordPress I used the W3 Total Cache plugin.
And in order to set the <link rel=”canonical”> element I used the Yoast SEO plugin.
At one point I had a problem with garbled content in my browser. Looked like the browser was trying to display compressed content as text. But now I can’t reproduce, so hopefully whatever the issue was it is now fixed…
Over on https://digitalforensics.ch/linux/ there is a PDF you can download which lists common files and directories you might find in popular Linux systems.
I watched this cool video about how to create a NAS using a Raspberry Pi 5: The ULTIMATE Raspberry Pi 5 NAS.
From CVE-2024-3094 XZ Backdoor: All you need to know:
Fortunately, the malicious code was discovered quickly by the OSS community and managed to infect only two of the most recent versions of the package, 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, which were released within the past month.
------------------- Sat Apr 06 19:45:51 [bash:5.2.15 jobs:0 error:0 time:0] jj5@charisma:/home/jj5 $ xz --version xz (XZ Utils) 5.4.1 liblzma 5.4.1 -------------------
Gonna have a go at this: Install Docker Desktop on Debian.
I have built a new computer ‘trail‘ out of my old workstation ‘tradition‘. I was able to do this because I migrated the VirtualBox VMs that were running on ‘tradition’ over to QEMU/KVM VMs now running on ‘lore‘.
My new computer ‘trail’ is setup as the recording workstation for the “booth” in my studio. This is good because now I can record at 4K in the booth!
I don’t use Windows much these days but this new studio workstation runs Windows 11 Pro. I haven’t used software RAID on Windows before but for this workstation I setup a RAID1 mirror using 2x 2TB NVMe drives. I was able to configure the block size for the NTFS file system so I picked 2MB (which was the maximum) as this RAID array will only be for storing video recordings (which are huge files).
A friend on IRC referred me to this today: https://namingschemes.com/. It’s various lists of nouns in a theme which you can use for naming computers and such.