Liquid metal as cooling solution, an accident waiting to happen. I do understand why manufacturers use liquid metal instead of MX-6 or another traditional thermal paste as a cooling solution. The thermal performance is amazing. Usually a machine runs a few degrees cooler compared to its non-liquid-metal counterpart. That means longer boost clocks, less fan…
Category: Computers
Dear VodafoneZiggo: NO really means NO!
TLDR! Yes, I am absolutely burning VodafoneZiggo to the ground in this rant of an article. Yes, this is an extremely long rant. And yes, if you ever suffered through HorizonBox PTSD, unstable coax internet, telemarketing, packet loss, bridge-mode roulette, or support engineers replacing random objects in your house while praying to the DOCSIS gods……
AI Feels Like 1995 Again
I can’t remember exactly when we got our first computer anymore. I must have been around 10 or 11 years old. What I do remember is that it was an MSX 1. Oh boy, did I spend a lot of time on that machine. Typing in program listings from magazines. Using PEEK and POKE commands…
Sudo shutdown -h now
This weird title? Well… apparently my body decided to test that theory yesterday. In 30+ years of school and work, I had never once fallen asleep: not at school not at university and definitely not at work Not even a micro-nap. That is…. Until yesterday. Apparently ferritin at an all time low + a bad…
The SoapUI Hellscape: how HTTP 500 became 200
I ran into one of those bugs that makes you question reality. Everything looked fine in SoapUI. The endpoint was correct, properties were set, requests looked clean. Yet in Jenkins, the same testcases kept failing with ModelItem errors, dreaded NullPointerExceptions, and HTTP 500 responses. So I did the usual: checked connectivity → fine tested with…
4 Days, One Error, Zero Clues
[ERROR]: + CannotCommit Invalid JCA transport endpoint configuration, exception: BINDING.JCA-11043 [ERROR]: Invalid Interaction parameter. [ERROR]: Invalid Interaction parameter. [ERROR]: Interaction parameter Authentication Type has invalid value {PUBLICKEY}. [ERROR]: Please correct the value of the interaction parameter and redeploy the process. This exact error has haunted me for the last four days. “Interaction parameter Authentication Type…
Help, low battery
For people who play, or have played, LaserQuest, this phrase will probably sound familiar. It comes from the packs themselves when the 7.2V battery pack is nearly empty. The pack reminds the player to return to the airlock to get another battery. But in my case, my battery is nearing empty. And I can tell…
Fail2ban issue
Yeah, I’m using Fail2ban quite aggressively. If you access my reverse proxy over HTTP(S) and decide to do something naughty, you’ll end up in my eternal black hole. And no, I’m not disclosing which rules I use. Hehe. That said, I did discover a small glitch in my setup. I accidentally banned myself. Well… technically…
IPSec VPN Tunnel issues
Today I wanted to write about how I fixed my IPsec tunnel between my home and my office, but my ISP decided to throw yet another curveball. The start I wanted to have a secure connection between my home and my office. Initially, I had a more or less working setup using two DrayTek routers….
Proxmox HA is alive!
This weekend was D-Day for my Proxmox HA/Ceph cluster. Spoiler alert! It actually runs! And yes, this took way longer than expected, and I had a serious run-in with Mr. Murphy. More on that later. Photos All three nodes, side by side. And yes, I bought another NOX 010 case. It differs from the NOX…