Posted on za 28 oktober 2017 in desktop • Tagged with windows
Yesterday my Windows 10 VM I run on my Macbook took forever to install updates.
Then at some point my macbook (yes the complete macbook) went blank / off without any warning. As the laptop usually warns of low battery charge, I suspect I hit some kinda bug.
This morning when …
Posted on vr 29 september 2017 in desktop • Tagged with apple, security
Some time ago I bought a couple of Yubikeys, but actually start using them ended up on the todo list.
But now I can easily unlock and lock my apple laptop with my yubi key. Unlocking is just done using the standard pam module and the configuration described at the …
Posted on vr 29 september 2017 in desktop • Tagged with security
Looking for alternate or additional protection for my Keepass databases, I stumbled upon a fork of KeepassX that actually has some nice new features. One of those is the ability to use a yubikey as the key or as an additional key to the password database.
The fork KeepassXC released …
Posted on do 17 augustus 2017 in desktop • Tagged with apple, ubuntu
Once every blue moon I try some sort of Linux as the native operating system on my laptop. As I tend to have a recent laptop, this usually ends as a short experiment where I find out one or two devices just will not work.
As my wife moved to …
Posted on wo 09 augustus 2017 in desktop • Tagged with windows, puppet
For a recent client I was asked to provide a puppet development setup on the windows platform. The toolchain included Git for windows / Git bash / Turtoise GIT / Atom and some others. It also includes the windows adaption of my git pre-commit hook.
To use this hook, you need to install …