The work is facing a budget blowout, and unless you manage to destroy the hardware you have it will be kept. I’m quietly relieved by…
Posted: 22 June 2020
Categories: Administration
Category: Administration
Posted: 15 June 2020
Categories: Administration
Over the last couple of months I have been running a fork of Arch Linux called KaOS, which is tuned for Plasma, the KDE window…
Posted: 8 June 2020
Categories: Administration, Linux
On Wednesday (Tuesday US time) Spotify, like many other services, chose to honour the Black Lives Matter Group. This is arrant virtue signalling, and I…
Posted: 1 June 2020
Categories: Administration, COVID 19, Life
Let’s get the basic stuff out of the way. I’ve already commented on the NZ Covid app, and the same dynamic is occuring in Australia….
Posted: 1 June 2020
Categories: Administration
There are a large number of people attempting to brute force this place. The amount of spam went down. I got a mention at The…
Posted: 29 May 2020
Categories: Administration, COVID 19
There are five million New Zealanders. The COVID 19 app has privacy concerns. It also seems to be less than easy to use. The launch…
Posted: 25 May 2020
Categories: Administration, COVID 19
Son two took one look at my home laptop and said replace. I said… no. The work laptop is an old macbook and it still…
Posted: 18 May 2020
Categories: Administration
The default programme for screenshots in kde is spectacle, but it is complicated. Much simpler is: Press the printscreen (PrtSc) key You will either see…
Posted: 11 May 2020
Categories: Administration, COVID 19
I gave up. I was trying to not install Jetpack, but to speed everything up it simply made sense. Their backup software, Vaultpress does not…
Posted: 4 May 2020
Categories: Administration, Australia, COVID 19
At present, NZ is still functionally in lockdown, and we don’t have apps out there mandated by the state. There is speculation that we will…