Category Archives: Personal

Anything relating to myself.

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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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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Marriage Equality

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Jethro Carr

New Zealand has passed legalisation for allowing same-sex marriage this evening! I’m so happy for my many LGBT friends and love the fact that no matter whom any of us love, we can get the same recognition and rights in … 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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Google Play Region Locking

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Jethro Carr

Sadly Android is giving me further reason for dissatisfaction with the discovery that Google Play refuses to correctly detect the current country I’m in and is blocking content from them. Being citizens of New Zealand and living in Australia, both … 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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A reminisce of Auckland

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Jethro Carr

During the year (late 2011-late 2012) I spent in Auckland after moving up there to be with Lisa, I collected a number of good memories and pictures from the region that I want to share to showcase what I consider … Continue reading →

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ip6tables: ipv6-icmp vs icmp

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Jethro Carr

I run a fully dual stacked IPv6+IPv4 network on my servers, VPNs and home network – part of this is that I get to discover interesting new first-adopter pains with living in the future (like Networkmanager/Kernel bugs, Munin being stupid, … Continue reading →

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linux.conf.au: day 2

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Jethro Carr

The second day of linux.conf.au has been and gone, was another day of interesting miniconf talks and many geeky discussions with old and new friends. The keynote was a really good talk by Radia Perlman about how engineers approach developing … Continue reading →

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linux.conf.au: day 1

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Jethro Carr

First proper day of linux.conf.au today, starting with breakfast and the quest of several hundred geeks to find and consume coffee. After acquiring coffee, we started the day with a keynote by the well known Bdale Garbee, talking about a … Continue reading →

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