Mathias' Blog

Occasional musings and technical posts…

11 Nov 2021

LXD Packaging Report, Nov 11

A quick update on my progress of packaging all the dependencies for LXD in Debian. NEW packages pending ftpmaster review...
31 Oct 2021

Marching on to LXD in Debian: First report

Last week I began looking into the status of the long-lived ITP to get LXD properly into Debian. I’d really like i...
19 Sep 2021

B-29 Doc in Albuquerque

This weekend we had a bit of aviation history here in Albuquerque: the B-29 “Doc” was down at the Sunport. I...
13 Aug 2021

LXD 4.0 LTS Properly Packaged for Debian bullseye

In celebration of tomorrow’s release of Debian bullseye, I have updated my packaging of the LXD 4.0 LTS release an...
19 Apr 2021

Ingenuity's First Flight

Early this morning, Ingenuity successfully made its first flight…. pretty amazing! Oh, and that helicopter is Lin...
18 Apr 2021

A Decade of Portal 2

Hard to believe it’s been a full ten years since Portal 2 launched! It was one of a select number of items I&rsquo...
15 Apr 2021

A Warning about the High Desert Amateur Radio Club

This is something I never thought I’d have to write about, but due to the events of the past few weeks, I need to ...
24 Feb 2021

Good (and Bad) Customer Service

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had a higher than normal number of interactions with various online companies. ...
22 Feb 2021

Perseverance's Descent and Touchdown

I think we might be living in the future… we’ve got a satellite (the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) snapping ...
11 Feb 2021

UniFi AC Pro and IPv6 RAs

For a while now, I’ve been running an IPv4/IPv6 dual stack network on my main wired LAN. IPv6 availability has com...