Tag Archives: geek

Hard drives can be bad influences on your RAID

Posted on 2013-10-12 by Jethro Carr

RAID is designed to handle the loss of hard disks due to hardware failure and can ensure continual service during such a time. But hard drives are wonderful creatures and instead of dying quickly, they can often prolong their death … Continue reading →

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Android, the leading propietary mobile operating system

Posted on 2013-09-18 by Jethro Carr

The Linux kernel has had a long history in the mobile space, with the successes and benefits of the OS in the embedded world transferring across to the smart phone and tablet market once devices evolved to a level requiring … Continue reading →

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O-Ring Mod

Posted on 2013-09-12 by Jethro Carr

As much as I love my Das Ultimate Silent keyboard, the one thing that it fails to do is live up to it’s “silent” label. Whilst it’s certainly massively quieter than something like the mighty IBM Model M, it still … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu, the Windows of the Linux world

Posted on 2013-09-10 by Jethro Carr

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 →

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Delicious Entropy

Posted on 2013-09-09 by Jethro Carr

I run a large GNU/Linux server with KVM for running numerous virtual machine guests, including build hosts used to package and compile software for different GNU/Linux distributions and other operating systems. I recently ran into an issue during a kernel … Continue reading →

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WordPress & SSL Fixes

Posted on 2013-08-28 by Jethro Carr

I’ve been using WordPress for this blog for a number of years now – at some point I realised that whilst writing my own code is fun, there’s no need to reinvent yet-another-fucking-blog-platform and ended up selecting WordPress to use … Continue reading →

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The Apache that wanted to be root

Posted on 2013-08-25 by Jethro Carr

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 →

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A manifesto of freedom

Posted on 2013-08-23 by Jethro Carr

We are living in an interesting time. A time where the strong moral bastions of freedom, free speech and civil liberties are under attack in such a strong, aggressive and global manner , arguably unseen for almost 70 years in … Continue reading →

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Yeah, nah, you’re fucked as bro

Posted on 2013-08-22 by Jethro Carr

Today the New Zealand government passed some rather nasty legalisation on a slim 2 vote majority, thanks to the current conservative National party and their political allies, despite strong public opposition and large number of submissions. This new legalisation is … Continue reading →

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ELBs & Corporate Proxies

Posted on 2013-08-22 by Jethro Carr

Following on from yesterday’s ELB post, it’s worth noting that there’s another common scenario where you can trigger issues when accessing ELBs – many corporates enforce the use of an HTTP proxy for all outgoing traffic, sometimes transparently, other times … Continue reading →

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