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Discovery Legacy cloud templates often lack the partitioning and bootloader binaries required for UEFI Secure Boot. Attempting to switch such a VM to OVMF in Proxmox results in “not a bootable disk.” We discovered that a surgical promotion is possible by manipulating the block device and EFI variables from the hypervisor. The Problem Protective MBR […]
The WWW::Mechanize::Chrome Saga: A Comprehensive Narrative of PR #104 This document synthesizes the extensive work performed from March 13th to March 20th, 2026, to harden, stabilize, and refactor the WWW::Mechanize::Chrome library and its test suite. This effort involved deep dives into asynchronous programming, platform-specific bug hunting, and strategic architectural decisions. Part I: The…
Part 3: Building the Keystone – Dataproc Custom Images for Secure Boot & GPUs In Part 1, we established a secure, proxy-only network. In Part 2, we explored the enhanced install_gpu_driver.sh initialization action. Now, in Part 3, we’ll focus on using the LLC-Technologies-Collier/custom-images repository (branch proxy-exercise-2025-11) to build the actual custom Dataproc images embedded with […]
Part 2: Taming the Beast – Deep Dive into the Proxy-Aware GPU Initialization Action In Part 1 of this series, we laid the network foundation for running secure Dataproc clusters. Now, let’s zoom in on the core component responsible for installing and configuring NVIDIA GPU drivers and the associated ML stack in this restricted environment: […]
Part 1: Building a Secure Network Foundation for Dataproc with GPUs & SWP Welcome to the first post in our series on running GPU-accelerated Dataproc workloads in secure, enterprise-grade environments. Many organizations need to operate within VPCs that have no direct internet egress, instead routing all traffic through a Secure Web Proxy (SWP). Additionally, security […]
## 0.23 2025-12-20 commit be15aa25dea40aea66a8534143fb81b29d2e6c08 Author: C.J. Collier Date: Sat Dec 20 22:40:44 2025 +0000 Fixes C-level test infrastructure and adds more test cases for upb_to_sv conversions. - **Makefile.PL:** - Allow `extra_src` in `c_test_config.json` to be an array. - Add ASan flags to CCFLAGS and LDDLFLAGS for better debugging. - Corrected echo newlines in `test_c` […]
As a software engineer, I often find myself deep in the trenches of testing, ensuring the code I write is not just functional but also resilient. Recently, I embarked on a refactoring project that involved moving a script’s functionality into a new Perl module, App::Workflow::Controller. This module’s job was to orchestrate a few tasks: query […]
It appears that the fragile masculinity tech evangelists have identified Debian as a community with boundaries which exclude them from abusing its members and they’re so angry about it! In response to posts such as this, and inspired by Dr. Conway’s piece, I’ve composed a poem which, hopefully, correctly addresses the feelings of that crowd. […]
Some variant of the following[1] worked for me. The first line is the start of a for loop that runs on each node in my cluster a command using ssh. The argument -t is passed to attach a controlling terminal to STDIN, STDERR and STDOUT of this session, since there will not be an intervening […]
Browser Errors vs. Link Lights: Demystifying Network Connectivity with the OSI Model We’ve all been there: you open your web browser, eager to surf the net, only to be greeted by the dreaded “There is no Internet connection” message. It’s frustrating, but understanding how your computer connects to the internet can turn that frustration into […]