Rocky start

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Here are some quick notes for how I got a Rocky Linux 9.3 VM up and running. (more…)

Solved slow WiFi on MacBook Pro M2

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I got a new MBP a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been migrating things to it from my previous 2015 MBP. A couple of days ago I went to a different site on my UniFi network, and unexpectedly WiFi performance on the new MBP M2 was abysmal (more…)

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Some git workflows that I don’t do too often. (more…)

Virtual PTP hardware clock on KVM guests

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Using a virtual PTP hardware clock with the ptp_kvm driver and chrony is an easy solution for keeping time on guest machines synchronized to their host. Ideally the host is already keeping accurate time by tracking a set of NTP servers, but it is still probably a good idea to still add some network NTP peers on guests as well. (more…)

Refreshing old Terraform state

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If you find yourself with an old Terraform state file (say from v0.11) and you need to run terraform plan to check things out, you’ll need to make some adjustments:

  • Add a terraform block with required_providers to provide the source for the provider.
  • Remove the version statement from the provider block. (You will want to move it to the provider in the required_providers block.)
  • Adjust any other syntax changes that result in errors (terraform plan):
    • list()tolist([])
    • type = "string"type = string
    • Possibly many others…
  • Replace the provider in the existing ancient state file.
  • Refresh the providers (terraform init).
  • Plan away! (more…)

Released tcsh 6.23

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I am pleased to announce that tcsh-6.23 is now available; this is mainly a bug fix release (after 2 years) with a couple of new features:

  1. Add jobs -Z to setproctitle(3)
  2. Add ln=target in LS_COLORS
  3. Add a :Q modifier that preserves empty arguments

Please consult the Fixes file for a complete list of changes. (more…)