You just finished installing Debian 13 on your latest computer and at first boot the system tosses up an error message about “No shim_lock.” Yeah, it sucks. What sucks worse is all the “advice” you find online for work arounds. Other distros may have polished this particular turd. Secure boot is basically there to stop you from installing anything other than a Microsoft product. Despite all claims to the contrary this seems to be the … Debian 13 No shim_lock protocolRead more
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Beware the Cradle
You know, a cradle can be the greatest thing on earth. It can also cost you days. A few days ago, when I was trying to determine just how weak the power supply in my HP Franken-Z, it cost me days. The machine is running Linux Mint Mate edition. When I tried to stick in the NVS video card it couldn’t get powered on far enough to show me the logo screen. Just kept re-booting, … Beware the CradleRead more
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Not All Movement is Forward
If you have never had to endure software development run by MBAs, you probably don’t hate the word movement. Decades ago, when I was contracting at Caremark between two of their bigger Medicare fraud convictions. Not their current record fraud, between other records. Look it up, they’ve got a lot of them. You also have to look up MedPartners, but I digress. Yes, this is a follow-up post to my Fedora 43 post of this … Not All Movement is ForwardRead more
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Fedora 43 and Postgresql
While Fedora 43 has a fairly clean look, it once again goes to great lengths to be “expert friendly.” This particular battle has to do with Postgresql. Regular readers may recall my post about getting Postgresql to install and run on Fedora 33. Most of that post is still relevant. fedora 43 postgresql Error: connection to server at “localhost” (::1), port 5432 failed: FATAL: Yeah, most of you found this post because of that error. … Fedora 43 and PostgresqlRead more
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RPATH Notes
Few things are more frustrating when first developing your own libraries than RPATH. There have been numerous hacks over the years. Gnu even gave us libtool because POSIX dlopen() just kinda sucked. Hey, for the end user, dlopen() mostly works. It finds dynamically linked libraries in the system standard search paths, all is well with the world. For the developer working on dynamically linked libraries or worse yet, plugins that use dynamically linked libraries from … RPATH NotesRead more