I have to get back into learning mode, and in a serious way. I've got tons of books and a few video courses to do, but I really have to switch on learning mode and get in the zone. I have watched some vids for my certification path, but I …
read moreAfter some struggle, the back part is making progress
I started off wanting to spin up a simple Ubuntu 18-LTS box that had a few utils to help with recovery. But, for some reason, VMs on the box I'm trying to host from are restricted to 32bits. Okay, just snag a 32bit install media, right? Beep beep, try again …
read moreGoing the wrong way around
I've been trying to get a piece of software updated and working, but recently I figured out I'm doing it wrong.
I got an ancient install and I need it to be a bit more recent. Up until now, I assumed that the current install worked, and it simply needed …
read moreMy booklist
So one of the things I wanted to do was build a booklist, and this is the start. First, I want to snag the cut-open electronics book, from TubeTime. I'd also like to snag a few Kubernetes books, and check out a few cloud and/or security books.
So, candidates …
read moreTrouble with physical boxes
So, aside from my old tech box setback, I acquired a refurbed machine which I'm having issues getting to boot. I mean, I am able to cajole it to boot pretty regularly with breaking out the grub cli and doing some manual stuff, but the box refuses to load automatically …
read morePlanning for q4 2022
Planning, wow. Things are almost getting serious. :)
I already have some plans, discussed in previous blogs, so I won't rehash those here. So, what then?
One thing is books. My reading has disappeared, replaced with social media consumption. So, that needs adjustment. I also need to start buying some, as …
read moreRecovering from tech setback
So, I'm slowly starting to roll things out. I've built a temp backup area on S3, and have started pushing some things over there -- both programs and data. I've also started to rebuild some things, so I can have some functions actually work. I'm also looking to do some minor …
read moreHitting a technichal setback
I've had what seems to be a disk crash. Luckily, I had some recent backups, so data loss isn't bad, but there is still some. But this shows some of the softness in my processes, and the pain of spinning things back up means it will take some time.
This …
read moreBlog tooling update Oct 2022
So, I've got an elaborate and highly manual process put together for rolling out this blog. Up until now, this has worked well because I'd author an entry every so often, and some time later I'd want to publish it, and I'd take the 5 or so minutes to jump …
read morePi update Oct 2022
So, Jeff Geerling wrote about the shortage, and it looks like my August forecast was a bit optimistic. While one EU retailer has been able to maintain stock for some time, nothing like that seems to have happened on this side of the pond. And according to Jeff through one …
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