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Random thoughts of Peter 'CzP' Czanik

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My blogs that do not fit the sudo or syslog-ng webiste :-)

Linux / UnixAudio / hi-fiNetworking

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2026 31

  1. Building syslog-ng with bundled ivykis on FreeBSD
  2. Budapest Audio Expo 2026
  3. Using syslog-ng with OpenSearch 3.9
  4. Syslog-ng repo for Amazon Linux 2023 updated to syslog-ng version 4.12
  5. The syslog-ng Insider 2026-09: Performance; Openssl; Containers; Learning;
  6. Using syslog-ng with Elasticsearch 9.5
  7. Syslog-ng end of August news, and about scaling back Java support
  8. Syslog-ng hardening using Tor
  9. Syslog-ng journald source: how to avoid log bombs on errors?
  10. Syslog-ng 4.12.0 available for Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute)
  11. Syslog-ng Java destination disabled
  12. syslog-ng 4.12.0, syslog-ng PE 8.2.0 and SSB 7.8.0 are now available
  13. The status of OpenSSL 4.0 support in syslog-ng
  14. Nightly syslog-ng containers based on Alma Linux
  15. Learning syslog-ng
  16. The syslog-ng Insider 2026-05: OTEL; central log collection; old Mac
  17. Fedora 44, CentOS 7 and Amazon Linux syslog-ng questions
  18. Support for OpenSSL 4.0?
  19. New performance tuning possibilities in syslog-ng
  20. Discussing RTO in my Genesi t-shirt...
  21. My new toy: April 1 syslog-ng performance tests
  22. My new toy: Back to high-end audio
  23. My new toy: Open WebUI first steps
  24. My new toy: first steps with AI on Linux
  25. My new toy: FreeBSD on the HP Z2 mini revisited
  26. My new toy: AI first steps with the HP Z2 Mini
  27. New toy: Installing FreeBSD on the HP Z2 Mini
  28. New toy: Installing Fedora Linux on the HP Z2 Mini
  29. New toy: Installing Ubuntu on the HP Z2 Mini
  30. New toy: Installing openSUSE Tumbleweed on the HP Z2 Mini
  31. New toy in the house for AI, gaming, Linux, Windows and FreeBSD

2025 13

  1. Budapest Audio Expo 2025
  2. Asztropapucs debut single
  3. A pair of no-name speakers for (almost) everything
  4. POWER Is Not Just for Databases
  5. openSUSE turned 20
  6. Vangelis
  7. Obituary of my favorite CD shop: Stereo
  8. Zsolt Audio Turns 40 This Year
  9. The Anti-Social Century
  10. Music of the week: Rhapsody in Blue
  11. Idea from FOSDEM: Power 11 AI workstation
  12. CentOS Connect and FOSDEM 2025
  13. I am still looking for a SoftIron OverDrive replacement

2024 10

  1. The syslog-ng newsletter looks odd
  2. Some more Power t-shirts
  3. Power t-shirts
  4. Budapest Audio Expo 2024
  5. POWER for open source enthusiasts: what is coming?
  6. EuroBSDCon 2024
  7. On teaching sudo
  8. Copr: build your Fedora / RHEL packages for POWER
  9. Centralized system and LSF logging on a Turing Pi system
  10. Music of the week: five albums to bring with me to the desert island

2023 12

  1. Music of the week: New Year edition
  2. Music of the week: Christmas edition :-)
  3. Music of the week: the church organ
  4. Music of the week: String Quartets
  5. Music of the week: church organ and drums
  6. Music of the week: the Cello
  7. Music of the week: Pictures at an Exhibition
  8. All Things Open 2023
  9. Creaks: The first game I bought for its music
  10. Learning syslog-ng: a table of contents for my tutorial series
  11. HPC and me
  12. BBC The Green Planet: Quality vs Content

2022 26

  1. Sudo and syslog-ng news on Mastodon
  2. Photography is not just about the camera
  3. Lake Naplás: giving time-lapse photography another try
  4. Hifi Made in Hungary: NCS Audio
  5. EuroBSDcon 2022
  6. Working Hybrid
  7. Working From Home
  8. The War of the Worlds
  9. Discogs
  10. My Favorite IT Security Event: Pass the SALT
  11. The lie of 'Just a Little More'
  12. Raptor CS: Fully Owner Controlled Computing using OpenPOWER
  13. Friday the 13th: a lucky day :-)
  14. 21unity: serving open source software in a cloud based on OpenPOWER
  15. Windows made easy: Windows Subystem for Linux
  16. Phishing and spear phishing: report everything!
  17. The cult of Amiga and SGI, or why workstations matter
  18. Using the openSUSE Build Service to build software for POWER
  19. Dealing With Anxiety
  20. I'm an IBM Power Champion for 2022
  21. 12 years of syslog-ng (and sudo)
  22. FOSDEM 2022: my experiences, sudo talk answers
  23. Keeping POWER relevant in the open source world
  24. My polyamorous relationship with operating systems: FreeBSD, openSUSE, Fedora & Co.
  25. CES 2022: my favorite announcement comes from AMD, and why it's interesting for syslog-ng
  26. 27 Years with the Perfect OS

2021 23

  1. FreeBSD jails made simple using BastilleBSD
  2. Fedora, CentOS and me
  3. Watching movies belonging to soundtracks
  4. Mobile Photography
  5. High-Resolution Audio: is it worth the hype?
  6. Celebrating 30 years of Linux - is 2021 finally the year of the Linux desktop?
  7. One weekend, two updates: Windows 11 and MacOS Monterey
  8. Openpower Summit 2021
  9. Speakers from my life
  10. Virtual Conferences: a love-hate relationship
  11. Google Analytics: the gold standard?
  12. Qwant -- a European search engine
  13. Why people think that I am an IBM Power Champion?
  14. The ARM developers workstation: Why the SoftIron OverDrive 1000 is still relevant
  15. What I learned from Russian students: logging is important
  16. opensource.com: What was your first programming language?
  17. Bee pastures -- or how my Facebook post got deleted
  18. The lazy audiophile
  19. S.u.S.E., Opensuse and me
  20. Turris, syslog-ng and me
  21. My Google Pixel C: the end of an era
  22. Running openSUSE in a FreeBSD jail using Bastille
  23. Why