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Tag Archives: fail
Head Crash
Now that I’m back in Wellington, I’ve spent some time going through my boxes of parts relating to my server, and collected all 6 wrecked Seagate hard disks that gave me so much grief last year. My friend @macropiper took … Continue reading
Tagged fail, geek, hard drives, hardware, head crash, seagate
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Jethro does Mac: Terminals
With a change in job, I recently shifted from my primary work computer being a Lenovo X1 Carbon running GNU/Linux to using an Apple Macbook Pro Retina 15″ running MacOS. It’s not the first time that I’ve used MacOS as … Continue reading
Jethro does Mac: GPU Woes
With a change in job, I recently shifted from my primary work computer being a Lenovo X1 Carbon running GNU/Linux to using an Apple Macbook Pro Retina 15″ running MacOS. It’s not the first time that I’ve used MacOS as … Continue reading
Tagged fail, flash, geek, gpu, intel, jethro does mac, macos, nvidia, opinions
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Adventures in I/O Hell
Earlier this year I had a disk fail in my NZ-based file & VM server. This isn’t something unexpected, the server has 12x hard disks, which are over 2 years old, some failures are to be expected over time. I … Continue reading
Tagged cloud, fail, geek, linux, LVM, marvell, new zealand, open source, pain, RAID, SATA, software, storage
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Nginx, reverse proxies and DNS resolution
Nginx is a pretty awesome high performance web server and reverse proxy. It’s often used in conjunction with other HTTP servers such as Java/Tomcat and Ruby/Unicorn, as it allows static content to be served directly from disk by Nginx and … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, dns, elb, fail, http, java, nginx, puppet, ruby, server, tomcat, Uncategorized, unicorn
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Virgin Travel Bank Woes
A few months back, a flight I was on from Melbourne to Sydney got cancelled and I ended up having to chase Virgin through numerous phone calls to get a refund processed. Being the large annoying company that they are, … Continue reading
Ubuntu, the Windows of the Linux world
Sometimes I do wonder about if Ubuntu is actually the Windows of the Linux world, some of their design decisions, like non-closable restart windows… Thankfully xkill closes *all* windows and leaves no survivors. It’s a shame that the general desktop … Continue reading
Tagged fail, geek, linux, open source, ubuntu, UX
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The Apache that wanted to be root
I’ve run into an issue a couple of times where some web applications on my server have broken following a restart of Apache when the application in question calls external programs.. What seems to happen is that when an administrator … Continue reading
Tagged apache, centos, env, fail, geek, linux, open source, rhel
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Android alarm UI WTF
I like Android, but there are a few times the UX (User Experience) is a bit messed up compared with the way the user thinks. For example, take the newly introduced alarm clock time selection interface added in ICS: So … Continue reading
MS Volume License Service Center
Occasionally I have to touch Microsoft software, thankfully most of our customers have their licenses entered into the Volume Licensing Service Center these days which makes finding the install media a lot easier than rummaging through CD wallets in the … Continue reading