Last ride today, most likely, probably for a while. Last visit to the gym for six months, I’m guessing.
Welcome to the 20’s.
This decade will be talked about for the next hundred years, just as the 1920’s were until now.
The world just changed
This year will be remembered for the next 100. A virus that took out economies. possibly changing the world order again.
What remains to be seen is how much it impacts Australia. This is the year that each country will stand or fall on its own.
Its all happening so quickly.
COVID-19
Well, it’s been a week of it. Mass ignorance followed by mass panic. I still think its the calm before the storm.
We need cooler heads to prevail. Panicking is not going to help.
At a federal level they are just starting to acknowledge this. Fortunately at a state level this has been tracked for a while.
Server stable.
Holding at 60 degrees, despite the heat. Fan at 1800 RPM. All good so far.
Reset MK850 Keyboard
Just a little note to myself on how to reset this keyboard:
- Hit escape then ‘o’
- Hit escape then ‘o’
- Hit escape then ‘b’
Server relocation
After the (brief) server downtime today, I’ve realised it’s the mesh wifi that is part of the problem. So the server has gone to the node now. It’s truly a headless box.
I was a bit worried about the temperature but the fan seems to hold it at 57-60 degrees which is ok I guess.
UPS
Added in another UPS into the system to hopefully protect the server and maintain its uptime.
Will see how that goes.
Ride to Freo
Ride to the other side of Fremantle. So thats a couple more km than normal. Overall doing ok with the riding, although its only about 42 km all up.
Also – got to see a train running in on the tracks. Don’t think I’ve seen that very often – freight line only south of Fremantle.
Mail Server
This is for documenting the server woes I’ve had. In fact, it started as woes not related to my server, but to the email server that net registry was running for painscience. That just failed on friday.
After two days, being told by tech support that they couldn’t fix the problem with cPanel, I decided to build my own email server.
And it works!
Along the way, its been a voyage of discovery, with SSL certificates (to secure the webmail), and even a lot of pain with getting wordpress generally to work with SSL. But that seems to work now after a lot of experimentation.
So, for better or worse, I have a mail server now running in its own VM… At least the cost per user is pretty low (like, zero other than my time).
I’ll probably need a bigger SSD at some stage, but for now mostly its about backups.
Night out with friends
Having a great night out at wildflower.
Celebrating a big birthday. Great food and company. Wine isn’t bad either.
