Self AssessmentSelf Assessment
Background Knowledge The Dunning Kruger Effect [1] is something everyone should read about. It’s the effect where people who are bad at something rate themselves higher than they deserve because[...]
Deleted Mapped FilesDeleted Mapped Files
On a Linux system if you upgrade a shared object that is in use any programs that have it mapped will list it as “(deleted)” in the /proc/PID/maps file for[...]
Social Media Sharing on BlogsSocial Media Sharing on Blogs
My last post was read directly (as opposed to reading through Planet feeds) a lot more than usual due to someone sharing it on lobste.rs. Presumably the people who read[...]
Load Average MonitoringLoad Average Monitoring
For my ETBE-Mon [1] monitoring system I recently added a monitor for the Linux load average. The Unix load average isn’t a very good metric for monitoring system load, but[...]
Links January 2020Links January 2020
C is Not a Low Level Language [1] is an insightful article about the problems with C and the overall design of most current CPUs. Interesting article about how the[...]
systemd-nspawn and Private Networkingsystemd-nspawn and Private Networking
Currently there’s two things I want to do with my PC at the same time, one is watching streaming services like ABC iView (which won’t run from non-Australian IP addresses)[...]
4K Monitors4K Monitors
A couple of years ago a relative who uses a Linux workstation I support bought a 4K (4096*2160 resolution) monitor. That meant that I had to get 4K working, which[...]
KMail Crashing and LIBGLKMail Crashing and LIBGL
One problem I’ve had recently on two systems with NVideo video cards is KMail crashing (SEGV) while reading mail. Sometimes it goes for months without having problems, and then it[...]
Long-term Device UseLong-term Device Use
It seems to me that Android phones have recently passed the stage where hardware advances are well ahead of software bloat. This is the point that desktop PCs passed about[...]
Are Men the Victims?Are Men the Victims?
A very famous blog post is Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is by John Scalzi [1]. In that post he clearly describes that life isn’t great for[...]