Musings

[...] This post takes a detailed look at the systemd D-Bus interface particularly as it relates to systemd snapshots. [...]

This blog looks in detail at systemd's hostnamectl and timedatectl utilities and their associated daemons. [...]

[...] Many people are unaware that the GNOME Shell has a DBus interface which can be used to programmatically interact with the GNOME Shell. This post shows you a [...]

[...] This post discusses the differences between the DBus interface in GNOME Shell 3.6 and GNOME Shell 3.4. I also demonstrate how to use some of the new methods [...]

[...] Authenticated Variables to show you how UEFI Secure Boot is implemented. I also provide the source code for a simple UEFI utility which outputs information about the X.509 certificates in the Secure [...]

[...] This post provides the source code for a small UEFI utility which can be used to retrieve a Microsoft Windows Product Key from [...]

[...] In this post, I examine how to directly boot Fedora 17 from UEFI firmware. I also discuss a number of non volatile variables which the Linux kernel can create during an [...]

[...] you how to obtain various information (vendor, version, revision and build date) about your UEFI firmware via the SMBIOS table. [...]

[...] In this post I show you a simple way to add preference persistence to your Cinnamon or GNOME Shell extension using JSON. [...]

[...] describes a number of ways to modify the GNOME 3.2 Shell Activities Button by means of a GNOME Shell extension. Four working examples are provided. [...]

[...] you how to set up a VMware Workstation virtual machine which allows you to experiment with the UEFI shell and the various UEFI command line tools. [...]

[...] for a small UEFI utility which can be used to retrieve a Microsoft Windows Product Key from UEFI Shell. [...]

[...] problems testing UEFI APIs using QEMU and the UEFI OVMF. In particular I discuss non volatile variables, the QueryVariableInfo runtime service and the changes I have to make to the [...]

[...] , I examine how to directly boot Fedora 17 from UEFI firmware. I also discuss a number of non volatile variables which the Linux kernel can create during an kernel crash. [...]