Vehicle economy – Its all a bit pants really
Why would I say that? So I’ve been driving the L200 as carefully as I can. “Hypermiling” they call it. Light on the throttle, steady acceleration, keep the revs right down, use inertia and road conditions as efficiently as possible. I can get 38 MPG on the computer, and if I get behind a lorry […]
Drive Electric – Part 2
Further to my thoughts regarding the transition to Electric Cars. In this post I am going to explore the thinking on is buying an Electric car actually a “Green” thing to do? You might think that is a “No brainer” of a question, but is it? Build Carbon Foot Print When you choose to build […]
Gym action
This evening I went to the gym in my first visit to start to restore the work I had begun some two plus years ago. Further more I did not go alone as Holly joined me. My work included 300 Calories on the Cross Trainer, one that seemed to work properly. This took the best […]
Drive electric – Part 1
Okay, the subject is quite simple. We are being herded in the direction of buying electric cars. So what about it? There are many arguments and angles of arguments, so the answer is not so straight forward. In this post I will explore what I find out about the actual cost of owning an Electric […]
Reviving the GYM project
Yesterday evening I resumed my program of visiting the Gym. The last visit was in November 2021, upon which the rise of the Omicron threat made me think this wasn’t such a smart idea. To be fair I could have gone back earlier but I didn’t feel I was up to the experience. Now that […]
Migration complete, and its looking good.
Its taken a while but I have now completed the migration of all my “always on” computing services to the two Raspberry Pi’s, both running Ubuntu. So before I had three enterprise servers. One was acting as a NAS, plus running the web services on a virtual machine. Also it ran the weather station services. […]
And migration once more, more…
So running this site on the RPi3 proved problematic. So I have migrated again. This time I have dropped the SQL relational database for the faster, and less memory hungry, “MariaDB”. Additionally I have migrated off the RPi3 and onto an RPi4-2GB. A significant improvement. Additional advantages are that the external Hard disk is now […]
Migration once more
You might notice this site is a little slow. There is, of course, a reason. Stupidly high fuel bills. It has come to pass that Gas and Electricity prices have literally gone through the roof and I am expecting my bill to more than double. Under these circumstances I cannot justify the operation of my […]
A computer poem
Many moons ago, more than I care to remember, when I was at University. One of my computer literate colleagues spent a lot of time with the Uni’s DEC VAX 8650, which was connected to JANET, or the Joint Academic Network. This was part of what would become the “Internet”. One day he mailed us […]
Moving to new hardware
This website is now being hosted by my DL380 Gen 7 server, well, one of them anyway. I have migrated it off of the DL360 because – I have more spares for the DL380. The DL380 has a ton more disk space. There is a power saving to be had here. The down side is […]