Revitalising my 3rd gen iPod
In 2004, right on the heels of our wedding, Marli bought me a 3rd generation iPod for my birthday. I used it for many many years, until the battery finally died on me. Replaced the battery, used it for...
View ArticleFormative reading, for my decision to switch careers
I've been wondering and doubting whether IT is still the thing for me. I've been for almost a year now, but things accelerated with the world's insistence on making big parts of the market LLM-centric....
View ArticleAn end to my road with Apple?
It's almost precisely 23 years ago that I became an Apple-loving computer user. Back in 2003 I ran SuSe Linux on my old Athlon tower, dual-booting into Windows for games and other stuff. Since buying...
View ArticleOne of my main reasons for quitting IT
As I wrote earlier this week, I'm getting out of IT. Many things factor into my decision, but the most important one is the direction that the ICT market is heading into. It's a direction I will not...
View ArticleBig career changes: reprise
It's high time I opened my mouth about this. Almost twenty years ago I wrote a rather high-winded piece about my decision to get out of IT. I started my second BSc, to become a high school maths...
View ArticleNUT: Proxmox and the Unifi UPS Tower
A few months ago I setup the Unifi UPS Tower for my Proxmox cluster. The nodes in the cluster keep an eye on the built-in NUT server, to determine if and when they need to shutdown. It's worked well!...
View ArticleICTRecht CAICO review
2026 has been the year of AI security and compliance trainings for me. After working my way through AAISM, CAISP and an agentic SDLC workshop, I've now also cleared the CAICO training and exam:...
View ArticleKnow thine enemy: taking an Agentic SDLC deep dive
I'm vehemently against LLM-usage and rather strict on other AI-usecases, but that doesn't mean I can ignore the topics entirely. My customers are certainly all-in on using coding harnesses and aspiring...
View ArticleLocal LLM workstation: Radeon r9700
For my companies, and for myself, I have set policies which state that zero AI or LLM-based solutions will be used for "production purposes". More on that in another post. These policies don't mean I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More BCDR testing with the Unifi UPS Tower
Three months make a bit of difference, eh? A common wisdom in IT is that "if you haven't tested your backups, you don't have backups". So it's great that I got a UPS back in March, but I decided I...
View ArticleMeshcore: lessons learned about RAK4631 in the WisMesh Repeater mini
A few months back I bought a bit of Meshcore gear, to both learn a tiny bit about LoRa networking and to perhaps (in a utopian setting) help build a local emergency communications network. As...
View ArticleEX188: passed and learned another lesson
Last Friday I failed my EX188 exam. At the time I thought it was because I'd forgotten to ensure reboot-readiness of all of my solutions. This morning, while I took the exam, I realized it was...
View ArticleSolved: Proxmox 9 e1000 "hardware unit hang" in Ubiquiti network
Finally! My Proxmox cluster has always been plagued by network hangs, where my primary network connection unexpectedly dies. Fully stops working. That was not fun, but when I enabled HA clustering it...
View ArticleRedHat EX188 exam experience
I failed the test this morning, plan on passing it next Monday. Story here, I know exactly what went wrong. Putting that aside: compared to the last time I took EX188 things have both improved and...
View ArticleStepped onto RedHat's famous landmine
I'm not nearly as angry or frustrated as I was when I failed EX413 almost ten years ago. Despite EX188 being an entry-level exam, I deserved to fail this time. I know exactly what I did wrong. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wiring the Dell Optiplex MFF to JetKVM's DC power control
I recently hooked up my Proxmox nodes to JetKVM remote consoles. At the time I couldn't do real power management, but at least I could trigger a remote power-on after a full failure. The Wake On LAN...
View ArticlePreparing for another Red Hat Remote Kiosk exam
When I last did a Red Hat exam in 2023, setting up their remote testing solution wasn't great. It would only work with one out of all of the laptops in our home, the old gaming laptop I inherited from...
View ArticleJetKVM + Dell Optiplex 7020 MFF: remote power management
TLDR: Skip to the heading "the good news". I have tried quite a few things, both from the Proxmox and the Debian / Ubuntu forums, to deal with the e1000 hang issues. So far, no dice. Every few days,...
View ArticlePragmatism and a promise
In 2023 I passed RedHat's EX188 (specialist in containers) certification exam. At the time I felt guilty by taking what seemed an easy way to renew my RHCSA/RHCE. At the time I let pragmatism reign, as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BCDR testing with the Ubiquiti UPS Tower
I thought I'd see what happens when I pull the plug on my new Ubiquiti UPS Tower. It held up quite well, though it was a slight bit different from what I'd expected. Most importantly: when off AC...
View Article
![[imports/adg/photos/213899875_Police-Car-Lights-2.jpg]](http://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/imports/adg/photos/213899875_Police-Car-Lights-2_t600.jpg?4326734cdb8e39baa3579048ef63ad7b451e7676)
![Suupeas – Fall in Dream (2026-10-09) [Single, FLAC 24bit/48kHz]](http://getimg.link/images/2026/10/17/442240.md.jpg)