• Zettelkasten on a Supernote

    I love the Ratta Supernote e-ink devices. They are a delight to use for writing, planning and all sorts of things. Writing things out by hand helps me connect with them on a deeper level because I need to choose the words more carefully than I would when typing, simply because of the speed difference.…

  • Patchutils rises from slumber

    Last week I released patchutils-0.4.3, the first release since 2020. A fair number of pull requests and issues had accumulated since I’d last been paying attention to this project, so 0.4.3 contains quite a few fixes and improvements. As well as several bug fixes there are also new command line options. There’s also a behaviour…

  • Journal-brief now in Fedora

    The journal-brief package is now available in Fedora (22+)! Also, the 1.1.2 release adds a ‘systemd’ output format to report on failed systemd units: $ journal-brief -o systemd Failed systemd units: 7 x NetworkManager.service 33 x abrtd.service 1 x configure-printer@usb-001-008.service 1 x dnf-makecache.service […] For more about journal-brief visit the GitHub page.

  • Using journal-brief to watch for errors

    It’s pretty easy to see what error messages have been logged on a machine with systemd installed: just run journalctl -p err. But this will show you all of the messages of priority “err” or higher, starting from the beginning of the log. What if you only want the most recent ones? Again, that’s pretty…

  • Headless encrypted boot with Fedora Server

    Here is a recipe for using encrypted boot on a Fedora Server system that does not have a monitor or keyboard attached during normal use. I’ll use Fedora 21 Server, and will have a dedicated encrypted volume group for data but leave the main operating system volume group unencrypted. The encryption key will be stored…