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August 6, 2016

Getting a HP P1109w printer to work on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial

linux bug
As usual, Linux needs a bit of under-the-hood wrenching to get things working. HP is actually doing Linux support commendably compared to its peers (see hplip). However, in this case a bit of extra grease was needed. ... Read more

September 13, 2015

Linode iptables-persistent not starting on Debian Jessie

linux bug ops
Today I noticed that my Linode does not restore its iptables configuration after reboot. This is how the investigation progressed. I have opened a ticket with Linode to update the relevant documentation. ... Read more

December 23, 2014

How to generate a web server certificate for signing with StartSSL

linux ops
A lot of advice on the web is outdated. There are three critical points that might be out of date or wrong: ... Read more
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