One Pagers

Tip for Windows 11 on Libvirt/KVM

Getting good performance with Windows 11 Pro running under Libvirt/KVM on Linux requires some special configs, especially if one wants to enable WSL2 (which requires 'Nested virtualization'). This is a brief cheatsheet on the required configuration.

June 19, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes

Bare metal cloud-init

A guide to using a Debian cloud image and cloud-init on a bare-metal host for fast deployment. The base configuration is very basic and aims to act like an OVH Debian 12 (Bookworm) dedicated server base configuration.

February 18, 2023 by Daniel F Dickinson12 minutes

Using XCA to create private SSL certificates

This article details using the XCA GUI for creating private SSL certificates for enabling end-to-end SSL on non-public servers.

May 12, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson5 minutes

Power BI M Code Date Table

For Power BI, if your data source does not already have a date dimension table, Microsoft strongly recommends adding one in Power Query M-code. Here we show how to do that for a fiscal year date table.

February 11, 2024 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes

PowerShell: Adding Privileges to a User

August 9, 2024 by Daniel F Dickinson5 minutes

Hugo: Ignore a line with markdownlint

When using `markdownlint-cli/markdownlint-cli2` or the `vscode-markdownlint` extension for VSCode with Hugo, one may wish to ignore a particular line. Here is a cheap way to do that using a shortcode.

May 8, 2023 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes

Real life SystemD timers

Most blog entries on SystemD timers give trivial samples. This article takes a different approach and provides the full details of two examples of using SystemD timers that are in active use.

March 7, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson6 minutes