A couple of years ago, I wrote about using NetworkManager’s dispatcher.| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr A Linux installation on a USB stick, onto which I can copy my presentation slides, so that I can boot my laptop from that USB stick when I come to give a presentation, thereby leaving my actual drive (and thus my documents, email etc) encrypted.| neilzone.co.uk
I use Jellyfin for media streaming, and also an arrangement based around mpd and ncmpcpp for my office.| neilzone.co.uk
My laptop is a relatively svelte 1.4kg. So how on earth did my work bag get to a weighty 6.| neilzone.co.uk
A hack which resulted in people accessing the wi-fi at 19 UK railway stations being shown a message about terror attacks has been linked to the account of an insider at the internet provider.| neilzone.co.uk
I use freeradius to control access to our Wi-Fi. It’s probably overkill, but I find it a useful way of doing VLAN steering while broadcasting just one SSID.| neilzone.co.uk
I like giving talks, lectures, and presentations. I very much enjoy talking at in-person events, and I’m much less of a fan of talking to a blank screen of muted attendees without their cameras on.| neilzone.co.uk
A friend and I had a small competition: what is the best laptop we could get for no more than £50?| neilzone.co.uk
Wherever I can, I tend to navigate my computer using a keyboard.| neilzone.co.uk
Here is an example config, built from my own working config, for VoIP on a FireBrick.| neilzone.co.uk
When I have a document to review, I like to flip my ThinkPad into “tablet” mode, and scribble notes in the margin of the document, highlight sections, and generally annotate it.| neilzone.co.uk
I have a lot of documents to scan. I have a working Brother multi-function printer/scanner, and it works fine, but it scans slowly.| neilzone.co.uk
At the end of April 2024, multi-talented UK ISP A&A - Andrews & Arnold - is shutting down its SIP2SIM service.| neilzone.co.uk
I made a sort-of-joke the other day about using Quake III Arena as a form of metaverse for decoded.| neilzone.co.uk