Why did you say six months?
He's coming.
This matters. This is important. Why did you say six months?
Why did you say five minutes?
He's coming.
This matters. This is important. Why did you say six months?
Why did you say five minutes?
Sunday, June 12
Went Shopping Today
Survived.
Survived.
Bought two keyboards, two mice, two HDMI cables, two USB cables, a four-port USB charger, a 16GB USB 3 thumb drive, a 16GB micro-SD card, and... Wait, that's the lot.
Carted it all home and installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on Tsumugi. After close to twenty years of using RedHat releases (original RedHat, Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS), I thought I'd give it a try. It has a pretty impressive feature list for what I want to do (ZFS, LXD, OpenStack, MAAS) and despite being a stable release (supported for 5 years) the packages are right up to date (Python 3.5, Ruby 2.3, PHP 7, MySQL 5.7).
Slight irks: The server install has no GUI. Okay, it's a server install, fine. The desktop install occupies 4GB and includes zero server components. Not even MySQL, which is usually hard to avoid (and a pain when you're installing your own preferred release like Percona). Oh, and DO NOT enable full-disk encryption when installing under VirtualBox. It works, in theory, but it is verrrrrry slow.
Also, there's no real GUI package manager installed by default. The desktop version seems to be very much the idiot edition, while the server version is the expert edition, leaving something of a gap.
Apart from that, it works, and it's usable and looks fine at 4K. I was hoping that 4K screens would finally fix Linux's perennial problem with ugly fonts, and they do. On both my 4K 15" notebook (Azusa) and my 4K 28" desktop screen (plugged into the notebook, hence the need for HDMI cables) it looks great. 4K at 15" is a crazy high resolution and almost everything looks good, but it's nice to have confirmation that the Linux desktop no longer looks like poop due to inadequate font hinting.
The problem with having a 4K 15" notebook is that I want to run it with two windows side-by-side the way I do with my desktop - generally my IDE on the right and terminal/email/web browser/Word on the left, depending on what I'm doing. But while 4K is more than enough resolution for that, 15" just isn't big enough. It drives an external 4K monitor with no problems, but that leaves little for its own 4K screen to do.
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Thursday, June 09
Outrage As People Hurt By Things, Film At 11
So, a knife-wielding madman was shot by police at the local shops today.
So, a knife-wielding madman was shot by police at the local shops today.
I live fairly close by so I had news helicopters hovering overhead for an hour - for several minutes, directly overhead.
No-one killed, but three bystanders injured apparently by ricochets or bullet fragments. Which is causing the usual Twitter fuss on Twitter. (Of course, the same police force was roundly criticised for not shooting the gunman in the hostage crisis in the Sydney CBD 18 months ago, and that time people did die.)
These are the same local shops where someone was murdered in public three months ago, the same ones that got clobbered by a tornado two and a half years ago. Must have been built on an AIBG.
Update:
A mentally ill man who was shot by police at a busy shopping centre was granted day releasefrom a mental health facility, despite allegedly telling his nurses and doctors he wanted to kill police.
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Sunday, June 05
That'll Keep The Ducks Happy
Some parts of Sydney have copped 20 inches of rain this weekend, and it's still coming down. Not quite as bad where I live, but still pretty damp.
Some parts of Sydney have copped 20 inches of rain this weekend, and it's still coming down. Not quite as bad where I live, but still pretty damp.
Meanwhile:
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Friday, May 20
Can't Leave You Guys Alone For A Minute
So I go away for a few hours days weeks months and when I get back, Donald Trump is pope, Venezuela is so broke they can't afford hyperinflation, three quarters of the pop icons of my youth are dead, and congress is planning on sending a mission to Europa.
So I go away for a few hours days weeks months and when I get back, Donald Trump is pope, Venezuela is so broke they can't afford hyperinflation, three quarters of the pop icons of my youth are dead, and congress is planning on sending a mission to Europa.
DID YOU NOT GET THE MEMO?!
Also, Google, stop with all the other shit and bring out a new Nexus 7 already.
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Friday, December 25
It's A Christmas Migrainicle!
Was going to continue on with Return of the Jedi, but since I bascially can't see, that will have to be postponed a little.
Was going to continue on with Return of the Jedi, but since I bascially can't see, that will have to be postponed a little.
Update: Feeling better. But this version didn't have the Yub Nub song.
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Thursday, December 24
Adventures In Shopping
December 24:
December 24:
Total Christmas shopping completed to date: Zero.
Doo-de-doo skip out early for a long lunch break. (Working from home today.) After tracking down an application failure to a flaky network card on one server in the front-end cluster.
Doo-de-doo buy all the presents.
Doo-de-doo go to bank to do a money transfer.
Doo-de-doo well, crap my phone wipes account details for the money transfer while I'm in line for the teller.
Doo-de-doo hit the supermarket for a few things while I'm there AND THERE'S NO LINE FOR THE CHECKOUT.
Doo-de-doo go home, put the groceries away, get the transfer details again.
Doo-de-doo back to the bank.
Doo-de-doo buy one last present and some wrapping paper.
Doo-de-doo hit the other supermarket for a few other things while I'm there AND AGAIN THERE'S NO LINE FOR THE CHECKOUT.
The mall was busier than an average Thursday, but the stores had enough staff on that everything was flowing more smoothly than average. Except for the extended family groups with strollers and whatnot that would enter a store and stop dead right inside the doorway as though they'd just suffered a collective aneurysm.
Don't do that. Don't be that extended family.
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Sunday, December 20
42 Days Of Summer
It's the middle of December, and that means it's school holidays for six weeks, and that means I get to listen to my neighbours' twelve kids (possibly more, but I've counted twelve in one place) scream incessantly for the next forty-two days, unless it rains heavily or SMOD comes to release me.
It's the middle of December, and that means it's school holidays for six weeks, and that means I get to listen to my neighbours' twelve kids (possibly more, but I've counted twelve in one place) scream incessantly for the next forty-two days, unless it rains heavily or SMOD comes to release me.
This year I've decided to interleave the shrieking with watching a bunch of movies that I had meant to watch but somehow never got around to. One a day, and write a review the same day. I'm already a couple of days behind - I had meant to start on Thursday, the day school got out - but here goes.
And I picked a great one to start with. Yep.
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Saturday, December 12
Turtles
Turrrrtles!
Turrrrtles!
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Friday, November 20
Off-Ice Day
42.8C (109F) in Sydney today. (Predicted 41C, ended up slightly hotter.) A hot air mass moved in from central Australia and spent a day dry-roasting the city before heading out to sea.
42.8C (109F) in Sydney today. (Predicted 41C, ended up slightly hotter.) A hot air mass moved in from central Australia and spent a day dry-roasting the city before heading out to sea.
So I went in to the office where they have really good air conditioning. Problem solved. I turned off all my computers first so I wouldn't come home to multiple drive failures; if it's nearly 43C ambient I shudder to think how hot a disk drive would be running.
Meanwhile in Melbourne, 16C and raining.
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Sunday, October 04
Mostly Dead Is Still Partly Alive
Also, Doctor Who series 9 episode 3 was pretty good. Doctor Who has always been good at "base under siege" stories, and this one killed the token idiot pretty quickly.
Also, Doctor Who series 9 episode 3 was pretty good. Doctor Who has always been good at "base under siege" stories, and this one killed the token idiot pretty quickly.
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