Month: January 2019

So You Wanna Start A Podcast – BSides Delaware 2018

This is a presentation I made at BSides DE 2018 about my experience starting The Iron Sysadmin Podcast, and my YouTube channel SWBCrawler. Enjoy!


RHEL 8 Beta – The podman cometh

I’m working through poking the RHEL8 beta with a pointy stick. In reading through the release notes, and poking around yum, I found that docker is suspiciously missing. For a company so bent on Open Containers, I thought that was pretty odd. So I started to dig a bit. Turns out, containers aren’t gone, just…


Installing the proprietary NVIDIA drivers on Fedora 29

Check out the rest of this story here, if you’re looking for the full tale of woe. This is the final article in my story regarding start to finish, getting my Dell Inspiron from a fresh install of Fedora 29, to a functional laptop. It wasn’t easy. Mostly thanks to the NVIDIA 960M that the…


Fedora 29 – Discrete NVIDIA – Boot troubles

In my third article in this series, I’m going to talk a bit about the failure case I hit after installing Fedora 29 on my laptop, and how I was able to get to a command line to fix it. You can read the story up to this point in this article. To sum up…