On my Latitude 7480, the Trackpoint in the middle of the Keyboard has a malfunction. The Trackpoint is a little Dot with a blue border between the keys g, h and b. My Trackpoint moves the pointer step by step upwards, without touching. So I want to disable the Trackpoint…

Creating a menu and failure handling In “How to Netboot with iPXE Part 2: Booting Alpine” we’ve learned how to boot Alpine Linux by providing a iPXE boot script over http. What will I learn Create a menu with iPXE to choose Alpine version Add some error handling to the iPXE script Prerequisites For simplicity…

I want to show you how to use gnome keyring to pass the repository password in the restic backup command. Why? To pass passwords to applications, environment variables are frequently used. But environment variables aren’t secure and are not designed to be secure. Some discussion about this can be read here. …

Booting Alpine — In “How to netboot with iPXE Part 1: Basics” we’ve learned how to build an iPXE.iso and embed a boot script. Furthermore we loaded an iPXE boot script over HTTP. We used the python HTTP module and qemu to test it on our local machine. Now we want to use…

The Basics — I recently wanted to try out PXE (Preboot Execution Environment). I came across iPXE, former known as gPXE. (For the whole story see: iPXE Homepage) iPXE is an ”open source network boot firmware” with some nice features. Instead of booting over dhcp and deliver the OS over tftp(learn more), one…

In late 2020, during the Corona pandemic, I thought about my grandpa. He is over 90 years old, lives alone and was isolated quite a long long time. He was fine. …