Journal of Timothy Kenno Handojo

AlmaLinux 10 for my VPS

As my VPS subscription was approaching its end, I decided to switch to another provider. While at it, I thought to myself: why not switch Linux distro as well?

Upgrading Almalinux

First, I updated the current one to its latest

# dnf update
# reboot

Then I tried the version upgrade

# dnf in...

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Further Improvement on the Blog

Performance Optimization

This is basically done by minimizing the amount of data transfered one way or another.

Downsizing favicon

This is the simplest.

I simply used ImageMagick to convert the format by running:

convert favicon.ico favicon.png

Then I replaced the old favicon with

mv f...

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Thinkpad X200: Rewiring Wireless Antennas (and Other Upgrades)

I got an X200 a long time ago before I got deeper into all this corebooted Thinkpad affair. As you may (or not) know, the iconic X200 is one of the few first corebooted Thinkpad.

The one I got came with coreboot already. Seems the previous owner decided it would be a good idea to cut off the WWAN...

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Thinkpad T420 From Parts

I guess I was bored enough to build a T420 from parts this time.

Acquisition

Mainboard

I got the one without discrete GPU. Since I plan on upgrading the CPU, I decided on picking the cheapest, which was one with an i5. mainboard-new

Screen

I got the HD+ one instead of the regular HD resolution, since I...

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Running Alpine on USB Armory (Part 3)

In continuation of my previous article, I'm diving deeper into Alpine Linux to be able to customize my stuff on the USB armory.

As I'm learning more and more about how things comes together, I've become fascinated by how they do things. I think it's ingenious how they implement some kind of immu...

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