I got so late with posting my journal last week, and still didn't find time to edit and publish it later in the week, that I decided to roll it over to this week. I've decided to just edit everything together so this post covers the last two weeks.
I ran another free co-working ...
It's another week of flowers from our visit to Sheringham in the summer. The last week of flower focus I think though.
All taken in June 2018.
This week it's a collection of purple flowers from our visit to Sheringham in the summer.
All taken in June 2018.
Having been working on lots of behind the scenes things like server upgrades and migrations over the last few weeks and months for All Secure Domains, this week I started rolling out DKIM signing of outbound email. This is currently only for customers who host DNS and email with ASD - the DNS records are automatically ...
This week it's a collection of white flowers from our visit to Sheringham in the summer.
All taken in June 2018.
I run a local small business group that runs a couple of events every month. These events are either an evening social or a co-working day, always starting at the same time. One of the places I announce these events is on Twitter; however to get noticed on Twitter you need to post quite a lot, which is quite tedious ...
It's only taken us ten years of living here but we've finally had a panel in our kitchen moved over by 1cm so we can actually fit our washing machine fully under the counter. A day for celebration!
Another first-Thursday rolled past this week and hence so did another Redhill Micropreneurs social ...
A collection of orange flowers from our visit to Sheringham in the summer.
All taken in June 2018.
We have given up! Our heating has been switched on. We were trying to make it to the totally arbitrary goal of reaching October before needing to do such, but after a couple of very cold and disturbed (presumably related) nights, we decided to give up just a little early. I wonder how long it will be ...
Getting slightly ahead of myself but I've decided to go for a sunny autumn photo today.
All taken in October 2017.
No matter what I tried I couldn't convince "lxd init" to create, or configure an existing, LVM thinpool for it's use!
So I ended up doing it rather more manually...
Basic requirements before getting started at all:
apt install lxd thin-provisioning-tools
Then create a thinpool, in this case using all of the remaining space on the "local" volume ...
I've concluded that this style of game is really bad for me (or anyone I think). This is the style of game that demands (to make progress) frequent/regular bits of your time. Eg playing each day to collect a daily reward, or every X hours to restore your shield or collect built-up ...
More photos from our recent visit to Chartwell, this time some views from their new tree house.
All taken in August 2018.
This article follows my meandering path to building a simple Python script (and dependencies) as a binary that I could easily run on multiple machines. If you just want to see what I ended up using, scroll down to the last section.
I started out using PyInstaller as it was really simple to get running. To build a binary ...
The joy of Unicode with MySQL and Django - make sure you change at the table level, otherwise future column migrations will try to reset away from UTF8.
An interesting read on fork()-ing in Python and how it relates to multiprocess.Pool.
Since when could you get 14TB hard disks?!
Reading up on possible Python executable distribution ...
It's late and I didn't plan this in advance, so here's a picture I like from somewhere we visited in June!
Taken in June 2018.
Continuing with my recent server admin tendencies, I spent a while working out how to do a completely custom Ubuntu install on a physical machine rented from OVH, making use of the IPMI access they provide.
I also noticed and fixed a "Precendence: bulk" header in my RT emails.
Another twist on banking that combines a ...
I recently spent a while working out how to do a completely custom install on a physical machine rented from OVH, making use of the IPMI access they provide. I thought I'd document it for future reference. So here's how to perform a custom/manual Ubuntu install via IPMI on OVH hosted hardware.
First up ...
A couple of weeks ago we paid a quick visit to Chartwell and noticed a tiny companion on our walk back across the gardens.
All taken in August 2018.
I use Request Tracker as the ticketing tool for support enquiries to my web hosting company and happened to notice (while looking at email headers for something else) that it's sending out ticket emails with the header:
Precedence: bulk
I can understand why this is a reasonable default, especially as RT is often configured to send automatic acknowledgement and ...