The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Geekery / November 5, 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 / February 29, 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 / February 29, 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 / May 17, 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 / July 28, 2021 / John / 0
Here we see, in all its glory, the little mini-cluster of Computery Goodness which serves you these hallowed pages.
Geekery / August 21, 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 / August 11, 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.
Geekery / May 26, 2020 / John / 0
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
Synthesis / May 20, 2020 / John / 0
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
Noms / February 18, 2020 / John / 0
Easy recipe time. Before you start, make up a big ol’ batch of Mix Powder. Ingredients: 3 medium potatoes, grated. 4 medium carrots, grated. 2 medium onions, sliced. 2 red finger chillies, sliced into rings. 2 green birds-eye chillies, sliced into rings. a handful of finely chopped fresh coriander leaves (including stalks). a handful of