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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…