More About the Thinkpad X301More About the Thinkpad X301
Last month I blogged about the Thinkpad X301 I got from a rubbish pile [1]. One thing I didn’t realise when writing that post is that the X301 doesn’t have[...]
Designing Shared CarsDesigning Shared Cars
Almost 10 years ago I blogged about car sharing companies in Melbourne [1]. Since that time the use of such services appears to have slowly grown (judging by the slow[...]
Huawei Mate9Huawei Mate9
Warranty Etc I recently got a Huawei Mate 9 phone. My previous phone was a Nexus 6P that died shortly before it’s one year warranty ran out. As there have[...]
Thinkpad X301Thinkpad X301
Another Broken Thinkpad A few months ago I wrote a post about “Observing Reliability” [1] regarding my Thinkpad T420. I noted that the T420 had been running for almost 4[...]
Work StuffWork Stuff
Does anyone know of a Linux support company that provides 24*7 support to Ruby and PHP applications? I have a client that is looking for such a company. Also I’m[...]
Logic of ZombiesLogic of Zombies
Most zombie movies feature shuffling hordes which prefer to eat brains but also generally eat any human flesh available. Because in most movies (pretty much everything but the 28 Days[...]
Anarchy in the OfficeAnarchy in the Office
Some of the best examples I’ve seen of anarchy working have been in corporate environments. This doesn’t mean that they were perfect or even as good as a theoretical system[...]
Process MonitoringProcess Monitoring
Since forking the Mon project to etbemon [1] I’ve been spending a lot of time working on the monitor scripts. Actually monitoring something is usually quite easy, deciding what to[...]
Converting Mbox to MaildirConverting Mbox to Maildir
MBox is the original and ancient format for storing mail on Unix systems, it consists of a single file per user under /var/spool/mail that has messages concatenated. Obviously performance is[...]
Observing ReliabilityObserving Reliability
Last year I wrote about how great my latest Thinkpad is [1] in response to a discussion about whether a Thinkpad is still the “Rolls Royce” of laptops. It was[...]