Happy Birthday Sharon!

My iptables INPUT chain default policy is set to ACCEPT.

Also Docker and OVA.

Back when my son was a baby, I used to play cricket with him. I’d take his feet and rub the soles against each other and go “CHIRP CHIRP!”. But as he grew older, he naturally didn’t enjoy this as much, and we’d do it less and less. He’d sometimes still ask me to do it, but occasions got scarce. He’s almost six years old now, and i had kind of accepted that he had grown out of it. Well, yesterday in the evening, just before he went to sleep, he asked me to do it again, and we both thoroughly enjoyed it, and we laughed, and it was beautiful. It may be the last time, as he grows older and won’t want to do such childish things anymore, but the pure fact that I got to experience it one more time AND KNOW it was the last time and I got to experience and savor it very consciously made me enjoy it just SO MUCH more, it brought tears of joy to my eyes. Yeah OK, I’ll admit it, I ugly cried. Hard. And I’ll cherish this memory forever.

You can use the Backup Client to backup any physical host: https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html

Eh, we don’t have Costco where I live, can’t help you with that part.

I bought a Reolink a few months ago, and I quite like it.

Layoffs will continue until morale improves.

Does the horse ride along in the car with its head sticking out of the roof, or do multiple horses carry each car around the course? Or! Do horses pull a wagon with the car on it?

Ah yes, the three genders.

Yeah, people say nice things about you that they genuinely believe and you’re just like: “Me? Nah, that can’t be right.”

Jokes about German sausages are the wurst!

My wife and I quote this so often!

Oh, is that one of these Japanese management techniques? Sounds really bad… Would it help you if I read you the number on the modem?

Eh, it’s usually stuff that needs to be built/fixed in and around the house/garden. It’s not too much fun while doing it, but the satisfaction when everything is done and progress is made and another corner of the house is new and shiny is oh so sweet.

It absolutely is. They usually come in dozens, are stubborn and hairy and stinky, and their hair regrows lightning fast.

Also, they’re not literal yaks.

Probably shave some yaks…

Very coot snoot!

Mein Eindruck war, dass die LPIC generell ein Stück hinterher hinkt, was so modernes Linux angeht, aber den Rest hat man sich auch schnell mal online angelesen. So Systemd, ip, ss, …

I used “LPIC-1 Sicher zur erfolgreichen Linux-Zertifizierung” by Harald Maaßen, published by Rheinwerk Computing (in German), ISBN 978-3-8362-6375-7,v and I liked it quite a lot.

There’s quite a few of these books, also in English, and they’re all kinda useful.

I work at a large scientific library, so I used it quite a lot to get me a selection of LPIC books. Also, I usually not just read the book, but I had my computer with me, so I could a) try things out that were discussed in the book and b) read up the whole (!) man page of any command used in the book. I found that that helped me quite a lot, because it gives you an opportunity to tinker and practice.