Oh Globbits!
Ignore me. I’m faffing around with things.
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
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
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.
State of the cluster
Here we see, in all its glory, the little mini-cluster of Computery Goodness which serves you these hallowed pages.
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
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.
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
Free Music
Here ye go. Three collections of slightly odd Berlin School synth music for your listening pleasure. 320Kbps MP3 format. This was written adn recorded by me, so you can do anything you like with it except make money. Mare Undarum – Nice to be in Orbit Mare Undarum – The Loom Mare Undarum – The