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Puppetlabs apt GPG key expired
by Kasper Lund
8 April 2025
Seems puppetlabs is trying to force people to the puppet core product, making live difficult for existing puppetlabs users.Lately the “official” apt GPG key expired at apt.puppetlabs.com, and trying to find help in the puppetlabs forum… Read more: Puppetlabs apt GPG key expired
Resolve GNOME Calculator Currency Data Download Issue
by Kasper Lund
7 April 2025
The calculator is trying to download currency conversion data but times out, disable this function by running this: gsettings set org.gnome.calculator refresh-interval 0 This should fix it!
Making the windows terminal great again
by Kasper Lund
14 January 2023
Once again my employeer forces me to work from an inferior platform, so what are my options to get the best possible working environment? Heres some tips to what I’ve done so far. The windows terminal… Read more: Making the windows terminal great again
Re-Volt, even easier with rvgl launcher
by Kasper Lund
8 December 2022
The RVGL launcher project has made it even easier to install and play the good old racing game ReVolt. To play on ubuntu, there are some prereqs you need to have in place, and not all… Read more: Re-Volt, even easier with rvgl launcher
Gnome NetworkManager and vpnc – use nm-connection-editor
by Kasper Lund
9 November 2022
Gnome NetworkManager is awsome, supporting almost all kinds of VPN solutions, and all you need to do is install a plugin. My main issue is, that my customers often have a pre-build package (for Windows) containing… Read more: Gnome NetworkManager and vpnc – use nm-connection-editor
systemd.mount replacing autofs
by Kasper Lund
11 January 2022
I have been a very satisfied user of autofs for several years. Using a laptop in multiple location without reboot, could often cause annoying timeouts with hard mounted NFS shares. So I found autofs, which did… Read more: systemd.mount replacing autofs
Working with yaml files in vim
by Kasper Lund
16 November 2021
when working with yaml files, indentation is crucial. You can setup vim to make it a little easier, like this: :set ai ts=2 sw=2 expandtab The above will set tabstop and shiftwidth to 2 spaces, and… Read more: Working with yaml files in vim
zfs filling up the /boot device with snapshots
by Kasper Lund
17 October 2021
So, you are trying to update your system and get this: Requesting to save current system stateERROR couldn’t save system state: Minimum free space to take a snapshot and preserve ZFS performance is 20%.Free space on… Read more: zfs filling up the /boot device with snapshots
Scan for new drives on Linux – the easy way
by Kasper Lund
27 September 2021
Adding storage to servers is part of every day work. this can be anything from a virtual disk on a virtual machine, to LUN’s presented from some external storage system. When the new disk has been… Read more: Scan for new drives on Linux – the easy way
Find and unmount CD drives with PowerCLI
by Kasper Lund
21 May 2021
Sometimes someone forgets to unmount the CD drive of a VM. This will interfere with operation tasks like setting a host in maintenance mode or using Update Manager. I recently had this issue, and the “update… Read more: Find and unmount CD drives with PowerCLI
Move the docker data directory
by Kasper Lund
11 February 2021
The default location for the docker data directory, when using overlay2 storage driver is /var/lib/docker. Maybe you want to move it to another location, and it’s actually pretty easy. Stop the docker service: sudo systemctl stop… Read more: Move the docker data directory
Windows 10 missing ssh-copy-id
by Kasper Lund
19 December 2020
Microsoft is finally shipping Windows with SSH. On my Windows 10 machine, it’s OpenSSH: PS C:\Users\Kasper> ssh -VOpenSSH_for_Windows_7.7p1, LibreSSL 2.6.5 Somehow they missed to get the ssh-copy-id tool implemented, so we need to find another way… Read more: Windows 10 missing ssh-copy-id
Postgresql not listening on docker interface after reboot
by Kasper Lund
12 August 2020
/etc/postgresql/12/main/postgresql.conf is where you define the interfaces for postgresql to listen on. It’s done with the line “listen_interfaces =”So, to get postgresql to listen on a docker interface, you have to add the IP address to… Read more: Postgresql not listening on docker interface after reboot
Ping not permitted in WSL
by Kasper Lund
11 June 2020
Using Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) is so nice, when you are forced to work from an inferior OS, sometimes also referred to as “a gaming console”Especially combined with the Windows Terminal, which I wrote about… Read more: Ping not permitted in WSL
Finally a decent terminal for Windows
by Kasper Lund
10 June 2020
Tip! Check out my new post about making the terminal great again here For years and years Windows users have had to work with disabled tools when trying to work in the command line interface. The… Read more: Finally a decent terminal for Windows
Looking for clear text authentication with tcpdump
by Kasper Lund
17 May 2020
Login services not using encryption, is unfortunately still often seen in the wild. I started out in the IT business around 2000, and even back then, clear text authentication was bad, but still we see it… Read more: Looking for clear text authentication with tcpdump
Balance your VMs across ESXi hosts in a vSphere cluster with local storage
by Kasper Lund
21 February 2020
The Citrix guys in my company has a bad habbit of using local storage, probably because they have had some bad performance experiences in the past. Local storage is not good for the vSphere admin, as… Read more: Balance your VMs across ESXi hosts in a vSphere cluster with local storage
Powershell menu script
by Kasper Lund
21 February 2020
Do you ever need to give some input to a script? Maybe its a long filename or some other long and complex string, or maybe you’re just lazy like me? I wrote a script for handling… Read more: Powershell menu script
Nvidia MX150 mobile GPU on Ubuntu with secure boot
by Kasper Lund
13 December 2019
I just got a replacement laptop, as my previous Thinkpad T580 started to freeze after > 10 minutes of usage. Luckily my company just replaced the thing, so I didn’t have to think about anything else… Read more: Nvidia MX150 mobile GPU on Ubuntu with secure boot
LGSM CS:GO not starting
by Kasper Lund
11 December 2019
I’m running a small CS:GO server for the local E-Gaming club. It’s based on https://linuxgsm.com/, which makes managing game servers easy. Today I got a call from the trainer, telling that the server was not running.… Read more: LGSM CS:GO not starting

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