Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or...
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Sunday, March 26
RIP Wonderduck
Well, damn.
Wonderduck was a good friend for many years. He was having trouble accessing his blog recently and I was too busy to get it fixed for him, and now it's too late.
Well, damn.
Wonderduck was a good friend for many years. He was having trouble accessing his blog recently and I was too busy to get it fixed for him, and now it's too late.
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Monday, April 11
Looks Like This Is Actually Happening
Expect to sign the contract tomorrow or the day after.
Expect to sign the contract tomorrow or the day after.
Then all that's left is shifting 1.5 tons of books. And junking 15 years worth of accumulated crap.
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Saturday, April 09
Comparisons
So, the main downstairs area of my current house - front hall, hall to the main bedroom and the first metre of the bedroom (it sticks out the front by 2.4m or so), ensuite, laundry, kitchen, lounge / dining area, and stairs - measures 8m x 6m. (I got one of those laser measury things.)
The living room of the new house measures 7m x 6m - and is just part of a large open-plan area that flows off via two hallways to the rest of the house.
So, the main downstairs area of my current house - front hall, hall to the main bedroom and the first metre of the bedroom (it sticks out the front by 2.4m or so), ensuite, laundry, kitchen, lounge / dining area, and stairs - measures 8m x 6m. (I got one of those laser measury things.)
The living room of the new house measures 7m x 6m - and is just part of a large open-plan area that flows off via two hallways to the rest of the house.
Being able to move around, having different rooms for different things, after spending this much time in a shoebox... It's going to take some adjusting.
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Monday, April 04
Third Time's The Charm?
Got the contract back for house #3.
My lawyer read through and had a couple of comments but saw no real issues. I took a look through and I agree.
So it looks like I might be buying not a lovingly renovated 19th century cottage, but instead a modern house with twice the floor area and easily six times the storage space I have now. And views for miles, which is what drew me to this one over other similar properties.
Got the contract back for house #3.
My lawyer read through and had a couple of comments but saw no real issues. I took a look through and I agree.
So it looks like I might be buying not a lovingly renovated 19th century cottage, but instead a modern house with twice the floor area and easily six times the storage space I have now. And views for miles, which is what drew me to this one over other similar properties.
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Saturday, September 04
You Know You're An Adult When
You buy a second set of the same cutlery you already own.
You buy a second set of the same cutlery you already own.
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Wednesday, October 07
Videos From A Parallel Universe, Part Two
They're baaaack!
They're baaaack!
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Tuesday, October 06
So How Are Things On Earth 2?
Things are wonderful. Come join us!
Well, some things could be better.
But the tech channels over here are endlessly entertaining.
In unrelated news my YouTube feed seems to have had an aneurysm.
Things are wonderful. Come join us!
Well, some things could be better.
But the tech channels over here are endlessly entertaining.
In unrelated news my YouTube feed seems to have had an aneurysm.
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Thursday, April 02
Another Good Thing For A Change
About three years ago, we closed our Sydney office at my day job, since half the staff already worked from home and the rest wanted to.
All the business equipment got packed away into storage so that we could move out on time, with the plan to sort it all out later.
Recently it seems someone asked "What is this storage unit we're paying for every month?" and so everything had to get moved out again.
They were planning to just dump the computers, and I pointed out that we couldn't do that since they might still contain confidential information. Since the storage unit is about 20 minutes from my house, the plan was quickly modified to dumping the computers... On my doorstep.
Which just happened. Five old PCs (they sold off all the nice Apple equipment), four external disk drives... And four Synology units containing a total of 96TB of disk.
Assuming I need to cannibalize one for spare parts and configure the other three in RAID-6, that will give me 54TB of available storage. Which should keep me in anime for a few weeks.
Update: Just realised that with my new internet connection (100/40, no download cap), these Synology boxes, and the 1TB cloud server I'm using for daily backups, I can cancel our main archive server. It's a nice server and reasonably priced for what it is, but the Australian dollar is in the toilet right now and I need to save money where I can if I want to bag one of those 3960X servers for mee.nu.
About three years ago, we closed our Sydney office at my day job, since half the staff already worked from home and the rest wanted to.
All the business equipment got packed away into storage so that we could move out on time, with the plan to sort it all out later.
Recently it seems someone asked "What is this storage unit we're paying for every month?" and so everything had to get moved out again.
They were planning to just dump the computers, and I pointed out that we couldn't do that since they might still contain confidential information. Since the storage unit is about 20 minutes from my house, the plan was quickly modified to dumping the computers... On my doorstep.
Which just happened. Five old PCs (they sold off all the nice Apple equipment), four external disk drives... And four Synology units containing a total of 96TB of disk.
Assuming I need to cannibalize one for spare parts and configure the other three in RAID-6, that will give me 54TB of available storage. Which should keep me in anime for a few weeks.
Update: Just realised that with my new internet connection (100/40, no download cap), these Synology boxes, and the 1TB cloud server I'm using for daily backups, I can cancel our main archive server. It's a nice server and reasonably priced for what it is, but the Australian dollar is in the toilet right now and I need to save money where I can if I want to bag one of those 3960X servers for mee.nu.
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Tuesday, March 31
I Still Aten't Dead
Three product launches, a conference (we have our own conference now), and a huge server migration meant that for the past two months I've been chasing fixed deadlines with rapidly varying requirements.
Three product launches, a conference (we have our own conference now), and a huge server migration meant that for the past two months I've been chasing fixed deadlines with rapidly varying requirements.
I have emerged. Not necessarily emerged entirely victorious, but certainly emerged.
It looks like we might be moving operations mostly out of the cloud and onto a cluster of Threadripper 3960X servers with an aggregate 6 million IOPS. Using ZFS and LXC everything will get snapshotted and backed up to AWS (and in some cases, replicated live) so that if it all drops dead somehow we can spin it back up the same day.
Need to read up on LXD clustering, like, right now.
Not installing Kubernetes, thanks. Will probably have Docker running inside LXC though.
It looks like we might be moving operations mostly out of the cloud and onto a cluster of Threadripper 3960X servers with an aggregate 6 million IOPS. Using ZFS and LXC everything will get snapshotted and backed up to AWS (and in some cases, replicated live) so that if it all drops dead somehow we can spin it back up the same day.
Need to read up on LXD clustering, like, right now.
Not installing Kubernetes, thanks. Will probably have Docker running inside LXC though.
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Friday, February 28
Daily News Stuff 28 February 2020
Pulse Coded Packet Switched Digital Headache Edition
Pulse Coded Packet Switched Digital Headache Edition
Tech News
- A look at the results of AMD's 2016 Chinese joint venture. (AnandTech)
The results are basically slightly broken versions of first-generation Ryzen and Epyc CPUs, with roughly identical integer performance, half or less of the floating-point performance, and encryption that you can be sure is 100% broken.
- If leaked benchmarks are anything to go by Intel's upcoming i7-10700KF is slightly slower than the Ryzen 3800X - but uses twice the power. (Tom's Hardware)
We know the 9900K is a terrible power hog, and Intel have pushed clock speeds even higher with their 10th Generation chips, so we rate this one plausible.
- The Raspberry Pi 4 now starts at 2GB for $35. (Tom's Hardware)
It replaces the 1GB model at that price. The 1GB model is still available if you're using it in embedded systems, but hobbyists now get twice the memory for the same price.
Also, that bug with USB-C power delivery got fixed at some point, so unless you somehow get a unit that's been sitting on the shelf for months, you should be safe.
- In terms of number of new mobile apps added in 2019 Google's Play Store is fourth and Apple App Store is fifth. (ZDNet)
Far in the lead is ApkGK which seems to have every Android app in existence and many that are not, which I have never heard of before, and which I would trust about as far as an elephant could jump on the surface of a neutron star.
- Corona-chan has scuttled Facebook's F8 conference. (The Verge)
Good work, CC!
It remains to be seen what will happen with upcoming events such as Computex and, um, the Olympic Games.
- The Chang'e rover says that the Moon has more
cheesedirt than previously thought. (New York Times)
130 feet deep in places. A Fall of Moondust, anyone?
Disclaimer: That's the Moon. Accept no substitutes particularly if they're only a couple of yards wide and don't plan to hang around. (USA Today)
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