Configuring ELILO with a generic kernel on Slackware 14.2
Configuring and using a generic kernel on EFI-based platforms with ELILO is pretty much an identical exercise to using LILO with legacy systems. Slackware provides you with a mkinitrd generator script to assist in making an initrd image to boot your system.
Zimbra 8 - Invalid Certificate error when installing a commercial wildcard certificate from RapidSSL
While trying to install a RapidSSL wildcard certificate on our Zimbra 8 server a while back, I ran into some issues while using Zimbra’s zmcertmgr command:
Slackware 14.2 review - Last of the Unices
When I began writing this review there had been 921 days since the last stable Slackware release. The apparent dormant state of development raised a few questions about the health of the distribution, but as usual the rumors of Slackware’s decline was greatly exaggerated.
Slackware ARM announces EOL for 14.1 and -current
Some unfortunate but understandable news emerged on the Slackware ARM website today as ARM maintainer Stuart Winter released the following announcement:
Is CloudFlare Always Online a leech?
As a Tor (The Onion Router) user I already have a negative impression of CloudFlare due to their captcha trolling. It therefore gives me no joy to see CloudFlare Always Online circumventing my hotlink protection in order to “cache” my content on their service.
Fake Chrome apps published with Google as the developer name
I’m pretty much done with getting annoyed by all the spam and fake applications populating the Chrome Web Store. But still, once in a while you come across something special that is just too good to pass up.
This website is now hosted on a Raspberry Pi 3
Raspberry Pi 2 VS Raspberry Pi 3 on Slackware ARM
Let’s get ready to rumble: a battle of two Slackware ARM powered webservers.
Hosting your WordPress installation on a RPi2 can be a challenge on multiple levels. Apart from stability issues, my biggest concern is always subpar PHP performance and additional overhead with TLS connections. To determine the potential gain of upgrading my hosting platform to a RPi3, I’ve done a few tests with a MicroSD card I recently retired due to data corruption.