I bought a new server, specifically to run virtual machines (VMs).

KVM described, directly from RedHat:

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an open source virtualization technology built into Linux®. Specifically, KVM lets you turn Linux into a hypervisor that allows a host machine to run multiple, isolated virtual …

At some point, Ubuntu changed how you set the time zone from the command line.

The new way involves the command timedatectl

Check the current time/date/timezone:

timedatectl
               Local time: Fri 2021-06-04 18:19:45 UTC
           Universal time: Fri 2021-06-04 18:19:45 UTC
                 RTC time: Fri …

On bootup, my new Ubuntu server was stalling for ~2 minutes, while bringing up the network.

The message I saw was ". . . a start job is running for wait for network", which turns out was due to waiting for the 2nd (unused) interface to come up.

Of the 2 interfaces on the box, only one was connected:

ifconfig …

When installing Ubuntu server (20.04) on a Dell T7600, I ran into an issue when trying to boot from UEFI mode.

I'd get the error:

Failed to set MokListRT: Out of Resources

and then the server would just shut off.

I could boot from Legacy (non-UEFI mode), but it bugged me, as I knew the version of Ubuntu server …

I needed a quick SFTP server, and did a short post about it previously.

However, I wanted the ability to run a Docker container that wasn't on my NAS, so I had to mount the NFS share from within Docker.

Using this Docker composer file did the trick:

version: "3.2"

services:
  sftp:
    image: atmoz/sftp …

Each Kindle has it's own email address, which exists to allow you to email ebooks to your Kindle.

The easiest way to get ebooks from Calibre-Web to your Kindle is to add your Kindle's email address to your profile in Calibre-Web.

It's easy to do, but there are a few steps involved.

Find your Kindle's email address

Log …