Tag Archives: linux

Why I hate DSL

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I’m living around 8km from the center of Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, with only 8 mbits down and 0.84 mbits upstream in a very modern building with (presumably) good wiring installed. :’( The above is what happens to your … Continue reading →

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Intel 320 SSD stats & encryption

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I recently obtained a 120GB Intel 320 SSD for upgrading my Lenovo Thinkpad X201i from it’s sluggish hard disk to something with a bit sharper performance. Whilst not the latest and highest performance SSD from Intel, it’s certainly still very … Continue reading →

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linux.conf.au 2012

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Jethro Carr

In a couple days I’ll be flying out to Melbourne, Australia for linux.conf.au 2012, the undisputed greatest week of the year, being held in Ballarat. I’ve been attending this conference since 2006 in Dunedin and it’s continued to be an … Continue reading →

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Android: the free-ish mobile platform

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I’ve been using Android for a while now, starting with the somewhat underpowered HTC Magic (G2) before moving up to a much snappier Google/Samsung Nexus S which is now my current model. Whilst I’m a fan of the platform overall, … Continue reading →

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Custom CA certificates & Android

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Jethro Carr

With the number of servers I have internally, I have setup my own Certificate Authority and sign all my internal SSL certificates against this private CA. This offers the useful advantage of being able to import the one CA certificate … Continue reading →

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Impatient Linux geek’s review of Win8 preview

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Jethro Carr

As you undoubtedly know, I’m one of Microsoft’s biggest fans [1], so I eagerly downloaded the newly released Windows 8 Developer Preview to take a look at what they’re aiming to with Windows 8. This post is just based on a quick … Continue reading →

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IPv6 Enabled :-)

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Jethro Carr

A while ago I deployed IPv6 to my flat and have been having fun learning and experimenting with the new addressing methods – at some stage I’m sure I’ll write a few bits up, but there’s mountains of information about … Continue reading →

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DHCP, I/O and other virtualisation fun with KVM

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Jethro Carr

I recently shifted from having two huge server racks down to having a single speedy home server running KVM virtual machines, with the intent of packaging all my servers – experimental, development, staging, etc, into a single reliable system which … Continue reading →

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CentOS, RHEL and future possibilities?

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Jethro Carr

Those who know me will know that I’m a long term CentOS user – this actually started from my love of RHEL,  back in my early Linux using days when I was running Red Hat 8.0. Whilst it made financial … Continue reading →

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PHP Podcast Interview

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Jethro Carr

Whilst at was at linux.conf.au I got interviewed by Steve from the Coding by Numbers podcast series, along with @LGnome about PHP, some of it’s background, future and general thoughts. Listen to episode 23 interview regarding PHP.

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