As the title alludes to, this morning I tried updating my Pinebook Pro running Manjaro Linux through my normal method: sudo pacman -Syu Today, this resulted in an error message about the libibus package: warning: could not fully load metadata for package libibus-1.5.26–2 …

Just a few moments ago I needed to extract the audio component out of a video file into some type of standalone audio file, like .mp3. Since I've been working with Audacity to record audio, I figured maybe it had some capability for ripping it out of video. My initial…

I recently ran across an interesting error with my development Kubernetes cluster, and while I still have no idea what I may have done to cause it, I at least figured out how to rectify it. As is commonly the case, most of the things I end up deploying to…

Lately I’ve been working through getting WinRM connectivity working between a Linux container and a bunch of Windows servers. I’m using the venerable pywinrm library. It works great, but there was a decent bit of setup for the underlying host to make it work that I had been unfamiliar with…

I recently found myself working on a project which required the GSS-NTLMSSP library. The application is going to be delivered via Kubernetes, so I needed to build a Docker image with this library. The project’s build instructions are pretty clear about what the dependencies are, but given that this was…

I’ve recently been working on a project that requires me to use PowerShell. I actually feel relatively fluent in PowerShell since it was my main scripting language for a little over a decade while I worked as a sysadmin in highly Windows-centric environments that involved me automating as much of…

This post easily falls into the “so ridiculous that it shouldn’t be a post” category. However, considering how long I ended up stuck on it earlier today, I figure it’s worth making if it stands a chance of helping even one other person avoid the same fate as me. 😅 …

This post probably falls into the category of being completely obvious, but considering I went for a fairly long time without realizing it, maybe this will help someone else out as well. I periodically access a variety of different vCenter instances via their web interface, all of which have a…

As I had mentioned in my post on my current state of Vim, one of the benefits of using Vim is that it’s pretty much everywhere — at least in the non-Windows world: My laptop running Fedora has it, and the VPS I run also has it if I want…