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So, cycling
Yeah, I like cycling now.. quite a bit One thing I have noticed a few times on my commutes to and from work is how slow cars actually are. Sure when you are cruising along at 30-40 mph you are going a...
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AHA!
Finally spent the 5 minutes to figure out what I had done to break this blog! pesky cache plugin! That’s one minor job done!
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Memory alignment bugs, old and new! (fun with Havok)
Writing low level code (assembly) on a system with an .. interesting architecture meant that I soon experienced the joy of memory alignment bugs. These typically present themselves in a completely...
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GRUB physical volume pv0 not found – one fix
I have had one of those days today… One of the mount points on my server had gotten a little tight for space, so I decided to grow it before it became a problem. Naturally I use LVM so that’s not an...
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State of modern ‘Arcade’ games and perhaps society?
Had a play on some modern arcade machines at the weekend.. what a sham! £2 to play and I suspect player involvement is fairly optional to the gameplay on the most part. I completed the 1st...
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Mallorca with team Glow
Late last year Aileen joined Team Glow (a womens cycling club), and this last week has been their trip to Mallorca. Thankfully I was able to go too (yay!) and join in on the rides. Also strapped to my...
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Courier IMAP problems with STARTTLS (Checking mail server capabilities)
I have recently upgraded my mail server from Debian Wheezy to Debian Jessie, which along with it brings new versions of software, including Courier. For the most part this hasn’t been an issue except...
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My current work has me using Python2.7, which on occasion requires a package with some yummy C++ at it’s core. Obviously this will require compiling before it can be used. This is handled by “pip”...
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Ubuntu 18.04 – LOCKS UP AT LOGIN AFTER UPDATE (VMWARE)
Last night I did what I imagine a lot of people do, click the OK on the Ubuntu package updater, let it do it’s thing and then restart later. I was only doing a bit of late night work and off to bed....
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Testing puppet configs with docker
Many moons ago at $dayjob I created puppet configurations for various systems, at the time my development process was to write the code in a development environment, and then deploy it to a test VM....
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