Bob's Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More

Beginning a visit to the island of Stromboli, in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily.

Ascending the active volcano on the island of Vulcano.

Traveling from Palermo by train to Milazzo, then continuing by ferry to the island of Vulcano.

Beginning a visit to the island of Vulcano, in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily.

An explanation of how to use the nmcli command common to all recent Linux distributions to investigate and solve a problem regarding long-term stable IPv6 addresses.

Palermo's cathedral is the product of a temple from before recorded history being converted into a temple by the Romans, that being turned into a church, which the Arabs converted into a mosque, which the Normans converted back into a church.

Arab-Norman churches in what I found to be the highlight of Palermo.

Arriving in Palermo on an overnight ferry from Napoli, and then finding my lodging in an 18th century palazzo.

A few days staying in the historic center of Salerno, walking along the waterfront.

Most of the Italian peninsula from Napoli south was settled by Greek colonists starting in the 8th century BCE.

Background on the 79 CE cataclysmic eruption of Vesuvius and its preservation of the city of Pompeii.

Traveling by overnight ferry across the Tyrrhenian Sea between Napoli and Palermo.

Introduction to a visit to Palermo, on Sicily, with a background on the city's long history.

Visiting Napoli, known in English-speaking countries as Naples.

A short excursion west along the shore of the Beagle Channel from Puerto Williams, the southernmost town in the world.

Chile promotes its Highway #9 as "The End of the World Route" through Patagonia, from its northern end beyond the main entrance to Torres del Paine National Park, through Puerto Natales and Punta Arenas, to its southern end near the southernmost tip of the

Puerto Williams was established as a Chilean Navy and Coast Guard outpost.

A 30-hour trip through the Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel from Punta Arenas to Puerto Williams, the southernmost town in the world.

NIST has decided, officially specifying a hybrid post-quantum and elliptic-curve KEM or Key Encapsulation Mechanism.

Cut the cable and build your own TV antenna for local to regional signals.

Build a simple but effective 1090 MHz quarter-wave antenna with a coffee can, a short RG316 pigtail from female F to male MCX connectors, and about 10 cm of wire from Ethernet cable.

Updated to add links to the September 2024 Mix Music story about Iron Mountain and the music industry slowly realizing that many studio sessions from the 1990s, stored on magnetic disk, are lost.

Added three sections: One on the Sinkclose vulnerability that affects "virtually all AMD chips dating back to 2006, or possibly even earlier."

Was "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" a sinister assailant with poison gas, Fortean phenomena, or mass hysteria?