I decided to write up some notes on wiring a u-blox NEO-M8N GPS module to a Raspberry Pi 5 via GPIO. This was in order to configure it as a PPS (pulse-per-second) time source for …
Month: May 2026
Container won’t start after upgrading to Debian 13
Quick note to myself (and anyone else who hits this). I upgraded one of my LXC containers — the one that hosts my websites — from Debian 12 to Debian 13 (Trixie). After the upgrade, …
NVIDIA Tesla GPU passthrough to LXC container on Proxmox
Quick note to myself on getting Tesla P100 and P4 cards accessible inside a privileged LXC container on Proxmox 8.4 for PyTorch workloads. This is the LXC approach — not VM passthrough via vfio. LXC …
SuperMicro X9 IPMI debugging and BMC firmware flash (1.73 to 3.62)
Quick note to myself (and anyone else who hits this) on getting IPMI working and flashing BMC firmware on the SuperMicro X9DRG nodes in my cluster. Two separate problems, documenting both. All my X9 nodes …