Centralized Linux authentication with OpenLDAP
LDAP, the #1 way to get your graduation delayed (as has always been the meme around Tsinghua University), is every SysAdmin’s dream tool for their servers. As mighty as its rumors fly, LDAP takes t...
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Install Proxmox VE on eMMC
Recently I bought a mini PC looking forward to setting up a home router. It started quite well except the specs were higher than I anticipated. 8 GB RAM plus 128 GB eMMC - too much waste for “just ...
New Pandora’s box: Install Linux and Windows onto the same NTFS partition
Linux 5.15 is shipped with a brand new driver for Microsoft’s classic NTFS filesystem, NTFS3. Unlike the decades-old open-source NTFS-3G project, which is based on FUSE and have always received cri...
Reinstall Windows VPS into Linux with iPXE network boot
This November I found a discount from one of my favorite VPS providers, NETfront. They offered Linux VPS with 2 vCPUs and 2 GB RAM at HK$56/mo, and also Windows VPS with 4 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM at HK$...
Secure site-to-site connection with Linux IPsec VPN
Linux has a built-in framework for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec), which is often combined with other tunneling technologies (e.g. L2TP and GRE) to create secure cross-site network connections....
Disassembling a hardware RAID 1 array in Proxmox VE
Yesterday in a server maintenance period, we decided to tune the storage layout of our Proxmox VE server, which included disassembling a RAID 1 array and adjusting the size of the root filesystem.
I switched from Google Chrome to Microsoft Edge
Last year (maybe September? I don’t remember now) I switched my primary browser from Google Chrome to the new Microsoft Edge. It turned out to be a wise move and I’ve been with Edge for more than h...
解决 Win10 自带微软输入法卡顿
昨天开始我用 Windows 10 自带的微软输入法开始出现了严重的卡顿，表现是时不时的按下键盘后要等一秒钟才会出现候选列表，尤其是在切换窗口的时候能卡 2-3 秒。进入 Win10 设置应用，找到微软拼音输入法，把所有设置都改了一遍，把云联想也关了，还是没啥变化。