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Ramblings / 22 August 2026 / John / 0
As tends to happen with art, one thing led to another and Mahler took my hand and went skipping merrily down a rabbit hole of Bruckner (who I’d had no exposure to previously). As someone whose symphonic experience really stopped with Beethoven, the advances in the form made by these two TITANS can’t be understated.
Ramblings / 19 June 2026 / John / 0
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”.
Geekery / 5 November 2024 / John / 1
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
The Tube / 29 February 2024 / John / 0
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
Ramblings / 29 February 2024 / John / 0
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.
Ramblings / 17 May 2022 / John / 4
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
Ramblings / 28 July 2021 / John / 0
Here we see, in all its glory, the little mini-cluster of Computery Goodness which serves you these hallowed pages.
Geekery / 21 August 2020 / John / 0
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
Ramblings / 11 August 2020 / John / 0
There is a scurrilous rumour circulating that Abe Yospe’s wife googles things really quickly to prove him wrong. This is untrue.