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sysadm

Restoring a Sun Blade 1500

12 minute read

I recently bought a Sun Blade 1500 Red from a network admin that used it for his work: it’s not a powerful machine by any means, but I got it under the impre...

Analyzing the various Linux system logs

6 minute read

Yesterday I’ve been asked by a friend who is currently working on an autonomous driving platform, running ROS on Ubuntu Linux, how to understand what caused ...

Running OmniOS CE on Hyper-V

3 minute read

OmniOS Community Edition is a Unix distribution based on Illumos, the modern and open OpenSolaris based kernel. OmniOS is blazingly fast and packs a lot of f...

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misc

Highlights from Linux Day Milano 2022

3 minute read

For the first time after the global pandemic we (UnixMiB) were able to organize another Linux Day and it’s been an absolutely awesome experience. This year I...

Defeating Windows’ SAM

2 minute read

It is well known that Windows NT’s Security Account Manager (SAM) wasn’t all that sophisticated in the early days of NT, and that it can easily be circumvent...

Bad GPU performance? Blame your drivers!

2 minute read

2022-06-06:jack23247 Good news and bad news: the system has suffered a critical failure due to a faulty PSU, that rendered the OS unbootable: funnily enou...

Resolutions for 2022

4 minute read

This post is a statement, a collection of my resolutions for 2022, in the hope that I’ll come back here in December and that I’ll be able to write a positive...

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linux

Two years of Linux Day Milano

2 minute read

Since 2017 I’ve been studying computer science in Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, and after a couple months I joined UnixMiB, the students’ Linux U...

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hardware

The bittersweet tale of the 9406-170

4 minute read

I recently recovered an AS/400 9406-170 with an expansion chassis I got for scrap value: the seller advertised it as “barely functioning, can’t find VGA port...

Core Transfer

7 minute read

“To initiate a core transfer, please deposit substitute core in receptacle.” ―Aperture Science Announcement System The AS/400 is a weird platform: it...

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programming

Today I Learned… about Windows CE!

4 minute read

I’ve been wondering about the internals of Windows CE today and I learned that the Kernel of CE 6.0 has been released under a semi-open source, with a “share...

From Excel to automation with Ruby

5 minute read

For the last few days I’ve been working in tech support for a large company: I’ve been hired to assist in backing up, mastering and restoring a couple of com...

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book-review

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