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I was lucky enough to be able to attend LISA 2017 in San Francisco. As usual, this conference is absolutely fantastic and jam packed full of useful content. Sunday to Tuesday is dedicated to the Training Program. Then Wednesday sees the start of the Conference Program, that continues until Friday. Defending against the dark arts Linux performance monitoring with BPF Troubleshooting performance issues in postgreSQL Security in Automation UX Design and Education for effective monitoring tools...

UEFI Boot has been supported on Dell PowerEdge servers since Generation 11 (~2010). But network booting via a PXE ROM to provision an OS is not a well know and established procedure, so I’ve been lazy and always placed my Dell PowerEdge servers in Legacy BIOS mode. Recently I was struggling with a R730 not accepting keyboard input on the PXELINUX menu, which felt like an issue with “Legacy USB emulation” not being enabled in the BIOS, but I couldn’t find any such setting....