Oracle Cloud Free TierOracle Cloud Free Tier
It seems that every cloud service of note has a free tier nowadays and the Oracle Cloud is the latest that I’ve discovered (thanks to r/homelab which I highly recommend[...]
Links August 2021Links August 2021
Sciencealert has an interesting article on a game to combat misinformation by “microdosing” people [1]. The game seemed overly simplistic to me, but I guess I’m not the target demographic.[...]
Links July 2021Links July 2021
The News Tribune published an article in 2004 about the “Dove of Oneness”, a mentally ill woman who got thousands of people to believe her crazy ideas about NESARA [1].[...]
Thoughts about RAM and Storage ChangesThoughts about RAM and Storage Changes
My first Linux system in 1992 was a 386 with 4MB of RAM and a 120MB hard drive which (for some reason I forgot) only was supported by Linux for[...]
Servers and LockdownServers and Lockdown
OS security features and server class systems are things that surely belong together. If a program is important enough to buy expensive servers to run it then it’s important enough[...]
Links June 2021Links June 2021
MIT Technology Review has an interesting article about Google Project Zero shutting down a “western” intelligence operation [1]. There’s an Internet trend of people eating rotten meat they call “high[...]
Dell PowerEdge T320 and LinuxDell PowerEdge T320 and Linux
I recently bought a couple of PowerEdge T320 servers, so now to learn about setting them up. They are a little newer than the R710 I recently setup (which had[...]
Netflix and IPv6Netflix and IPv6
It seems that Netflix has an ongoing issue of not working well with IPv6, apparently they have some sort of region checking code that doesn’t correctly identify IPv6 prefixes. To[...]
Internode NBN with Arris CM8200 on DebianInternode NBN with Arris CM8200 on Debian
I’ve recently signed up for Internode NBN while using the Arris CM8200 device supplied by Optus (previously used for a regular phone service). I took the configuration mostly from Dean’s[...]
Some Ideas About Storage ReliabilitySome Ideas About Storage Reliability
Hard Drive Brands When people ask for advice about what storage to use they often get answers like “use brand X, it works well for me and brand Y had[...]