It’s nearly the end of Mahler week

Well, I say Mahler week but it’s been a fortnight and it’s still not finished. Back when I started this blog – about 30 years ago – it wasn’t uncommon for me to say things like “oh, I enjoyed that piece of music – I really must get around to listening to more of it”.

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Ubuntu Server installer woes

Alright, Google, do your thing and make this available to other sysadmins don’t waste the ungodly amount of time on this that I did. Scenario – you’re installing Ubuntu Server 20.04 / 22.04 / 24.04 on Dell hardware. You’re using hardware RAID. You may be rebuilding the machine or you may have moved some disks

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Horse Whisperer (1998)

M’okay, overbearing workaholic mum takes extremely traumatised daughter and her equally traumatised horse to see Robert Redford. Redford is, apparently, a horse whisperer and is able to settle and calm the most disturbed of beasts. Presumably, it’s the horse he’s to look after, and not the daughter. Anyway, horse is healed, daughter is healed, workaholic

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Make that two years

The Web is dead, consumed by adverts that chase you around the page, cat memes and pr0n. I remember when it was full of the promise of free information for everyone and then the fucking suits arrived. I guess I’m guilty of aiding and abetting them.

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Oh my.

So, it looks like I’m averaging a post a year at the moment. That’s a bit shit. I guess it’s the nature of the way things are going – not much point in spending time expertly crafting a pithy and concise blog post when I can spew every minor thought that lurches through my mind

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Creating a Bramble

So, my current Raspberry Pi cluster isn’t really a true cluster – it’s really just a bunch of individual machines running BOINC which happen to all netboot off a single node. Other than basic configuration and filesystem provision, there’s no real oversight of the day-to-day running of the machines. All of this is about to

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Abe Yospe’s Wife.

There is a scurrilous rumour circulating that Abe Yospe’s wife googles things really quickly to prove him wrong.   This is untrue.

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Platform Update (what, again?)

Well, it’s that time again! Nelefa.org has another new home. Still on a Raspberry Pi 4 (sort of) but instead of being on a little dedicated Pi, it’s now on the world’s smallest and most pointless compute cluster. The cluster is built with a single Raspberry Pi 3B+ control node providing web servers, dhcp, nfs

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