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Highlands Festival of Speed 2018
Last weekend I headed to New Zealand and marshalled at the Highlands Festival of Speed. The Highlands Festival of Speed is a weekend packed with...
Flash Storage and SSD Failure Rate Update (March 2018)
It was almost 3 years ago that my open source storage project went into production. In that time it’s been running 24/7 serving as highly...
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Goodbye XenSever - Hello XCP-ng
In 2018 I set out to replace our XenSever 7.2 based virtualisation after Citrix essentially screwed over free / open source users. This project was to directly replace XenServer 7.2...
Canary
This is a stock photo of a Canary. It should be available both here and in this public repo.
Run youtube-dl (or similar) in the background
I wanted an alias or function to use youtube-dl in the background. Looking around the web lots of people seemed to want this and most of them were banging their...
Disabling scroll-wheel zoom in Firefox
This feature annoys me endlessly, I end up zoomed in and out of websites all over the internet. … But the fix is easy and there’s no addons required. Navigate...
Theory of constraints
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link” Any improvement made anywhere besides the bottleneck is an illusion. Any improvement made after the bottleneck is useless because it will...
Top album picks for 2017
Here are my top album pics for 2017 (in no particular order) Note: This is by no means an exhaustive list, it’s just the top albums that really stood out...
HP 4951C Protocol Analyser
My good friend Joel Shea received a most unlikely gift this Christmas - A vintage HP 4951 Protocol Analyser. According to the HP Computer Museum: Original Price: $3595 The 4951B...
Disable Firefox's zoom on mouse scroll
This annoys me endlessly as I seem to often have my hand on control / cmd from working in the terminal. Turns out it’s an easy fix in Firefox’s about:config:...
Talk - Clustered, Distributed File and Volume Storage with GlusterFS
Using GlusterFS to provide volume storage to Kubernetes as a replacement for our existing file and static content hosting. This talk was given at Infracoders on Tuesday 14th Novemember 2017....
Applying syntax in Sublime based on the first file line
In vim, you can add a comment at the top of files to set the syntax, e.g.: # vim: syntax=ruby In SublimeText there are many ways to detect syntax, one...
Broadcom, Or How I Learned To Start Worrying And Drop The Packet
Earlier this week we started the process to upgrade one of our hypervisor compute clusters when we encountered a rather painful bug with HP’s Broadcom NIC chipsets. We were part...
GlusterFS
We’re in the process of shifting from using our custom ‘glue’ for orchestrating Docker deployments to Kubernetes, When we first deployed Docker to replace LXC and our legacy Puppet-heavy application...
Return Of The RSS
Of all the tools for reading news and subscribing to software releases, I still find RSS the most useful. I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all...
The Aeroplane Flies High, Turns Left, Looks Right and Might Reach Its Destination
A hypothetical scenario in the form of a metaphor The Airline There is a Airline with good morals and prides itself on it’s ability to provide services to it’s customers....
Castle Hill Winter Trip 2016 Photos
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The State of Android in 2016 & The OnePlus 3 Phone
I wanted to try Android for a couple of weeks, I like staying on top of technology, gadgets and making sure I never become a blind ‘zealot’ for any platform...
Update Delayed Serial STONITH Design
note: This is a follow up post from 2015-07-21-rcd-stonith A Linux Cluster Base STONITH provider for use with modern Pacemaker clusters. This has since been accepted and merged into Fedora’s...
