Tag Archives: linux

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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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 5

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Jethro Carr

Final day of linux.conf.au – I’m about a week behind schedule in posting, but that’s about how long it takes to catch up on life following a week at LCA. ;-) Friday’s conference keynote was delivered by Tim Berners-Lee, who … Continue reading →

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linux.conf.au: day 4

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Jethro Carr

Another successful day of Linux geeking has passed, this week is going surprisingly quickly… Some of the days highlights: James Bottomley spoke on the current state of Linux UEFI support and demonstrated the tools and processes to install and manage … Continue reading →

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linux.conf.au: day 3

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Jethro Carr

Having reached mid-week, my morning wakeup is getting increasingly difficult from late nights, thankfully there were large amounts of deep fried potato and coffee readily available. The day had some interesting talks, most of the value I got was out … 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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linux.conf.au: day 0

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Jethro Carr

It’s time for the most important week of the year – linux.conf.au – which is being held in Canberra this year. I’m actually going to try and blog each day this year, unlike last year which still has all my … Continue reading →

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Great server crash of 2012

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Jethro Carr

In a twist of irony, shortly after boarding my flight in Sydney for my trip back to Wellington to escape the heat of the AU summer, my home NZ server crashed due to the massive 30 degree heatwave experienced in … Continue reading →

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Debian Testing with Cinnamon

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I’ve been running Debian Stable on my laptop for about 10 months for a number of reasons, but in particular as a way of staying away from GNOME 3 for a while longer. GNOME 3 is one of those divisive … Continue reading →

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