David Goodwin’s blog
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Excessive uptime(!?)
Somewhere on the internet there’s a mailserver with a larger uptime, I guess? I don’t think anyone dares to reboot it …. (this is a server the customer was going to migrate off about 5 years ago …. somehow it’s still in use) (2290 days is a little over 6 years)
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btrfs & ext4 – error handling when the hardware fails …
btrfs vs ext4 … how they cope when your computer overheats…
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intel nuc d54250wyk (haswell) ~10 years later
This little NUC I bought ages ago is still chugging along, in continual use (albeit only as a backup ‘server’ with a large 4TiB ssd in it). It’s recently had ‘open heart’ surgery to replace a failing fan and to clean the dust out of it (for the first time in 10 years). Wow, it’s…
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PHP psalm annotations
random psalm phpdoc things i keep forgotting
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systemd-resolve (DNS is always to blame)
Random unscientific finding; perhaps systemd-resolve isn’t quite ready for prime time yet?
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faster rsync (ssh cipher choice)
Perhaps the bottleneck isn’t always bandwidth – but does changing ssh cipher make any difference? Using a derivative of : In unscientific tests, it looks like ssh parameters might do something when copying a 4GiB file between two random virtual machines in different data centres, but both in London. SSH Variant Speed -e “ssh” ~45MB/s…
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Twitter?
Twitter data export / dumping / twitter-archive-parser
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Hello (again) world
I don’t blog very often. I should probably stop bothering with the automated twitter compilations. In other news, some legacy PHP code I look after had this : Yes, that’s including a file name that starts with a ‘#’ … which while it’s a clever idea, it’s also a pain in the bum to edit…
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Automated twitter compilation up to 13 November 2022
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 13 November 2022
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Automated twitter compilation up to 06 November 2022
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 06 November 2022
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