Category Archives: Geek

Anything IT related (which is most things I say) :-)

Firefox Mobile for Android CAs

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Jethro Carr

I’ve been using Firefox Mobile on Android for a while (thanks to the fact that it means I can use Firefox Sync between my laptop and mobile to share data). Overall it’s pretty good and the last few releases have … Continue reading →

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Android VNC

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Jethro Carr

Recently I’ve been using a few of my older Android smartphones for various projects where I’ll need to have the phones in a remote location or having the phones in a non-easily accessible location. A conventional Linux system would be … Continue reading →

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Holy Relic of the Server Farm

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jethro Carr

At work we’ve been using New Relic, a popular software-as-a-service monitoring platform to monitor a number of our servers and applications. Whilst I’m always hesitant of relying on external providers and prefer an open source solution where possible, the advantages … Continue reading →

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KVM instances dying at boot

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Jethro Carr

I recently encountered a crashing KVM instance, where my VM would die at boot once the bootloader tried to unpack initrd. A check of the log in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/vmname.log showed the following unhelpful line: Guest moved used index from 6 to … Continue reading →

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Age of Empires 2 HD on VirtualBox

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Jethro Carr

It’s been a few years since I’d last played it, but Age of Empires is still one of my all time favourite games. I started playing it back as a young noobling on Windows 98 with a Celeron 433mhz machine … Continue reading →

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Launch Paywall!

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Jethro Carr

So far my time working at Fairfax Media AU has been pretty much non-stop from day one – whilst the media companies are often thought of as dull and slow moving, the reality is that companies like Fairfax are huge … Continue reading →

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Android 4.2.2 Issues

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Jethro Carr

Having just flown from Sydney AU to Christchurch NZ, my Galaxy Nexus suddenly decided to finally offer me the Android 4.2.2 upgrade. Since I got the phone in 2012, it’s been running Android 4.1 – I had expected to receive … Continue reading →

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SSH via SOCKS proxies

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Jethro Carr

Non-transparent proxies are generally a complete nuisance at the best of times and huge consumers of time and IT resources at their worst. Sadly proxies are a popular feature in corporate IT networks, so it’s not always possible to avoid … Continue reading →

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NamedManager 1.5.1

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Jethro Carr

I’ve pushed a new release of NamedManager version 1.5.1, this release is a minor bug fix release providing: Bug fix for handling of TXT records, where extra slashes would be entered into the record due to an input validator bug. … Continue reading →

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Updated Repositories

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Jethro Carr

I’ve gone and updated my GNU/Linux repositories with a new home page – some of you may have been using this under my previous Amberdms branding, but it’s more appropriate that it be done under my own name these days … Continue reading →

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