Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Oh, the hilarity.
So, for years my media server ran Ubuntu 12.x. It ran it happily and despite the fact it was hideously out of date and painfully slow things were (broadly speaking) good. We had a cozy clunky duct-taped together feel, where bits occasionally dropped off at which point there were enormous amounts of swearing, weeping and…
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Pre-planning
Irritatingly*, I’ve managed to catch another cold just in time for another holiday. Last time I was so thoroughly ill I actually claimed back my holiday, this time it is, so far, just a tedious cold; but it kept me up half of last night (and by extension kept Kathryn awake) as I hacked and…
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And on it goes
Amazingly it seems to be working. So long as I don’t do the ‘copy entire disks full of data around’ thing or ask it to access all the disks at once, the media server seems to be serving media. Yay. It’s still working its way through cataloguing everything in Plex*, and LMS will have to…
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Meeeedia Server, why do you hurt me so?
Bdr-bdr-bDRRRRR-bdr-bdr-drrrr-drrr-bdr-bdr-drrrr-drrr-bdr-bdr-drrrr-drrr-bDRRRRR…. I’ve been sat here on and off through the day tweaking the server. I’m not sure why it’s randomly, occasionally rebooting. Seems to happen only under heavy loads, but weirdly more under heavy graphical loads than anything else, and it’s not like it’s a really umphy graphics card. Nothing in the logs, because it…
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An ‘unfortunate’ quirk
So having installed the much updated Ubuntu 14.04 I’ve run into an interesting bug. Using the graphical filer window to copy large amounts of data (by which I mean, the smallest amount I was copying when the bug appeared was around 20Gig – or the amount of data I generated doing Dead Bug Jumping (which…
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Review: Covergalls
So last year, whilst I was in the US I picked up some Covergalls. Now I’ve worn (C)overalls for working on the car for years. Years and years. My current set, which consist mostly of a mixture of oil, grease and grit combined with some cheap poly-cotton fabric came second hand from a classic motor…
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Failure is a dish best served…err…on rapidly spinning platters?
I failed to check one teensy tiny thing. The old install was still running as 32 bit. Because, well, the processor it ran on, with its single core, was a 32 bit processor. The new one? 64 bit. Should be running a 64 bit OS. Also, Ubuntu doesn’t seem to like the upgrade very much.…
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Upgrade day!
So, the poor old media server today finally got disassembled. After many years of service a new 4TB disk arrived today which prompted the gutting and rebuilding of the old computer…
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Progress that actually feels like progress
So despite the plodding work of painting the trim it’s not felt like a great deal of progress. I’ve been pleased to be plodding along with it, but it’s not felt like I’ve got lots done. It’s funny though, that painting a relatively small chunk of the trim that’s been waiting for ages for me…
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Battle For The Net
If you woke up tomorrow, and your internet looked like this, what would you do? Imagine all your favorite websites taking forever to load, while you get annoying notifications from your ISP suggesting you switch to one of their approved “Fast Lane” sites. Think about what we would lose: all the weird, alternative, interesting, and…