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 […]
The end of summer in December
This is how my weather station recorded the temperature this morning, for the day 04/01/2022. What we see here is a cold front tracking south and as it arrived so the winds switched from running in from the West to running down from the North. 7 degrees became 3 degrees in about two hours. We […]
Visit to Slimbridge
So today Ruth and went for a trip to Slimbridge, more specifically the “Wetlands and Wildfowl Trust” and a visit to the birds. A reasonable risk during these times of “Omicron”, as we were outdoors most of the time. Additional to this it wasn’t just the humans that were having to contend with a Pandemic. […]
Gym 2021
I’ve not posted about the Gym for a very long time, like the 10th March 2020, just before my world was thrown into chaos. However I have been back, several times. According to my records I started back on the 28th April. Crickey was it that far back that Gyms were allowed to operate again? […]
More mucking about with HID lamps
So a few things down with the HID lighting project. Firstly I have gone to electronic ballasts. I picked up four units that are much smaller and lighter than the lump of a unit I bought before. I have set two of these up in the workshop. They work well but there is a big […]