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Lenovo just released a new BIOS firmware for its ThinkPad P1 Gen 1, v1.32. This version fixes a few issues, as well as update the CPU microcode. Here is the changes from Lenovo’s website. CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE Version 1.32 [Important updates] - Addresses CVE-2020-8696, CVE-2020-8698 - Addresses CVE-2020-8694, CVE-2020-8695 [New functions or enhancements] - Updated the CPU microcode. [Problem fixes] - Fixed an issue where system might hang up at POST when some KVM device was connected....

After many and many weeks, I finally got libvirt working on this Gentoo machine. Before revealing how I’ve fixed this problem, let’s go through what the issues were. On this Gentoo I run Firewalld with nftables as backend. An alternative to nftables is iptables, but since nftables is newer and is becoming the default backend for more and more distribution including Fedora, I think it’s a good thing to adobt it early....

Apart from being an aparent Linux user, I’m also a fan of FreeBSD. A few years ago I challenged myself to perform all work related tasks on a FreeBSD machine for 6 months. It turned out that FreeBSD’s been working out quite well as a general usage work desktop. Today, I’d like to share a quick solution to a small annoying issue that may or may not affect you when you’re using FreeBSD....

“Bad boys, whatcha want. Watcha want, whatcha gonna do when the root is full?” Actually, what are you gonna do when the journald taking up lots of space? For example, during the operating system upgrade on my desktop, the free space on / is not sufficient. Error Summary ------------- Disk Requirements: At least 5643MB more space needed on the / filesystem. So, I check how much space the systemd-journald log was consuming:...

Just found out that Dell just released the a new firmware, 1.10.1, for the Latitude 7400 series. This firmeware was released since 10 Sep 2020. Fixes: Firmware updates to address the Intel Technical Advisory INTEL-TA-00404 (CVE-2020-8758). Fixed the issue where an error message stating Key Mapping for Console Redirection BIOS is displayed before the Dell logo screen, Enhancements: Updated the Embedded Controller Engine firmware. I’m running Fedora 32 on this laptop....