Various documents and HOWTO guides, for technology
For PowerShell on Windows, adding a security privilege to a user takes more effort than one would expect. Here we show a method with no third party dependencies.
Once you are sure everything is correct for the initial boot into your configured system, commit (store) your changes.
Disallowing SSH login with only a username and password is a well known security best practise, therefore we implement it.
Where possible it is a best practise to safely check your filesystems before mounting them. Here we add the needed packages.
Unless you need headless, or unattended reboots or power up, it is highly recommended to use an encrypted configuration backup.
You should backup your system. Really. Oh, and it should be to at least one other system.
Add colour and context information to the ash prompt.
Tmux is a handy tool that gives the ability to have multiple (text) windows in a single terminal session, as well as persisting your session in case of disconnect.
The default MOTD is potentially confusing, and is annoying in any event, once you have set up your system.
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.
It can be especially useful to use network booting to create virtual machines without using install media on the VM. To do that we netboot with iPXE.
While the LBU mechanism with backups allows restoring to previous state it lacks commented history. It also does not apply to ‘sys’ mode installs.
For many systems you should have plenty of available RAM and storage to add the online documentation (mostly in the form of man pages).
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For many users vi (the default editor for Alpine) is difficult and confusing to use.
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Tracking configuration changes in etckeeper is great, but even better is storing in an off-system private repository.