ilikejam

Oi! Glasgow's lovely! Well, some bits are...

I've said it before, and I'll never stop saying it.

Zones were awful.

Solaris had all of these great ideas, but the OS was an absolute pain in the ass to admin. And I say that from both sides of the SWAN firewall.

BetterTouchTool works, but it's not pretty - rounded corners end up with blue backgrounds and windows shrink slightly when defocussed.

No joy with the rest.

All I want (for christmas) is an 'Always on top' opton for windows on macos.

I'd pay real actual money, as I suspect would many others.

There's a blast from the past. Dan's Data was excellent - wish he was still blogging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uEmX5XClPY

Yes.

These...

https://reflectivesupplies.co.uk/products/salzmann-3m-scotch...

are better than plastic plate reflectors in every way.

You'd think so, but failing disks in raidz arrays can cause extreme performance problems, and failing disk electronics can cause lockups on SAS/SATA controllers.

Old disks are always risky. Avoid.

2. Why should bash be in /usr/bin? Mine's in /usr/local/bin and I've seen vendored bash binaries in very weird places. Respect the user's PATH.

8. '[' and '[[' are both bash builtins.

9/15. If you're using shellcheck, you'll need to quote (almost) all vars anyway.

I'd pay good money for an 'Always on top' window option on mac.

Yep. Charing Cross exit, J18 is on the right side.

Sony's playstation billing system is a mess and always has been.

Forward slashes in addresses (e.g. <floor>/<apartment>) cause similar mysterious errors.

Life is short. Keep it interesting.

Editing shows for rebroadcast is not the same as censoring archives.

The worst is, of course, GCL/borgcfg

There should be a compendium of non-deliberately-hideous languages. I'll start.

https://bigfix.me/search?page=18&searchString=relevance%20ex...

You _don't_ own the copyright of your own image in a photograph taken by a third party.

RedHat isn't a startup banging out MVP products and hoping for the best.

A lot of businesses rely on RedHat being the last line of support for thier systems, and if they're losing or unable to hire genuinely senior engineers, that's a serious problem for everyone involved.

Because everything everywhere is securities fraud.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...

Probably entirely unrelated, but Sun T series (definitely T5xxx, not sure about T1/2 series) ILOMs were Linux on PowerPC. Always found that amusing.

Sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable

Good speakers or headphones make a genuine difference.

Amplifiers don't tend to matter much any more - cheap class B solid-state amps are all fine these days (heaphone amps are a lottery though).

Digital sources have largely sounded perfect for the past 20 years.

A properly set up pair of good speakers in a room big enough to let them do their thing can be an _astonishing_ thing to hear.

RedHat built the fixed sudo RPMs 5 days ago.

I wonder if it would it be possible to 'dnf downgrade' a CentOS Stream host to the same package version as a RHEL8 host?

HP printers do in-band firmware updates via print jobs?

The second-last pic in the article - there's a couple of 6-pin chips on the board.

The battery he's ended up with looks like it does have charge protection after all (6-pin chip under the kapton tape), which is probably a good thing.

Don't know if you're aware, but if you click the bluetooth icon in the menu bar with Shift and Option held down, you get a debug menu that lets you reset the bluetooth module - might save you rebooting.

Why not just use a wiki?

RAID5 corruption is non-recoverable - you can't tell which is right, the data or the parity. RAID6 is recoverable - you can get consensus between the data and the two parity bits. ZFS stores hashes of each block, so as long as you have two copies, you can just pick the data+hash that's correct and restore the corrupt block, even with only two copies of the data.