Ceefax is back!

Posted by james on 21 January 2021, 10:05 am

https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/?channel=2&page=100

Alpine Linux default gateway on different subnet

Posted by james on 14 December 2020, 9:52 am

As Alpine Linux uses busybox for a lot of its system tools it won’t set up the necessary routing if you have a default gateway on a non-local subnet to the IP. You want /etc/network/interfaces to look something like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address IP.ADDR.ADDR.ADDR netmask …

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Nostalgy for Thunderbird 78+

Posted by james on 16 November 2020, 9:35 am

The best thunderbird extension is now working on current Thunderbird. Please donate to the author!

Testing Enterprise Infrastructure changes with brownouts

Posted by james on 15 November 2020, 12:18 pm

Decommissioning or migrating services in enterprise environments will frequently reveal previously unknown dependencies which result in changes getting rolled back, wasting a lot of time. To try and head these issues off you can test these changes with “brownouts”, shutting off the relevant infra temporarily (eg at a weekend) to expose any hidden dependencies. When …

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“Query types” and “Queries answered by” graphs not appearing in Pihole Admin GUI

Posted by james on 14 November 2020, 2:32 pm

Try clearing your browser cache

Wired networking not working on SBC / Allwinner with Kernel 5.9.0

Posted by james on 2 November 2020, 10:33 pm

That’s because there’s a bug: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/15593-no-network-with-590-sunxi-on-banana-pi-m2-berry/ Either get the patch or downgrade. Wifi appears unaffected so you can use that to connect.