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*** 2019-11-27 A new dawn and a new day ***
As I sit here in the home office, listening to the rain on the windows
and watching the light struggle to make it through the persistent
Yorkshire clouds, I'm reminded of 2 things. The first is that it's
flippin' cold in the office, and the second is that I haven't had a
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*** 2019-11-27 I need to write every day ***
As well as my other, web-based blog, I now have this gopher-based
"phlog" to maintain, which means I have to write something. Many days
I feel like dashing off a couple of paragraphs but don't get the time.
Other days I have the time but not the inclination. It's a pain,
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*** 2019-11-28 Time for some quick cable tidying Part 1 ***
I looked at the power cable nest next to the side of the desk this
morning and tutted. So many cables that had been there for so long,
with many now actually being redundant. But this is the "problem" with
owning lots of Raspberry Pi's - each one needs an USB power cable, and
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*** 2019-11-29 The decision has been made ***
Yep. I decided to do it. The day after moving the gopher server onto a
NUC I decided to move the web server as well. Actually, that'll
include the XMPP and MQTT servers as they all use the same SSL
certificate. I've ordered a new NUC and that'll probably be my project
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*** 2019-12-01 Stress testing the new web server SSD ***
The new web server SSD arrived today along with the memory. As the
service level requirement will be high I decided to run Stressdisk on
it. Looks like all seems to going well so far and the speeds look
promising. We'll see what the results are like later - if all looks
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*** 2019-12-02 The SSD tested ok ***
I'm pleased to say that the new SSD for the web site passed its
12-hour stress test session, so all I need now is the barebones NUC
box, and quite a lot of time. It's looking good though!
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*** 2019-12-06 A new SSD and new server set up ***
Well, I'm pleased to say that the new WWW/XMPP/MQTT NUC server is up
and running, although I still haven't made the commitment to switch of
the old Raspberry Pi 3. One reason for this is that I didn't yet have
a backup of the new server: it took me nearly a full day to set up and
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*** 2019-12-09 A near gopher miss ***
There was a rather long moment of panic over the weekend during which
time I nearly lost the Gopher server. Well, not actually lost (as in
permanently) as I have backups, but the NUC holding the Gopher had a
BIOS problem. As I'd recently updated the Web server and my spare
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*** 2019-12-31 Happy New Year and Decade to All Our Readers ***
I'm getting this in early as I know that some of you are ahead of the
GMT time zone. I hope you have a very Happy New Year in 2020: thanks
for visiting and hopefully I'll see you after midnight :)
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*** 2020-02-27 It has been a while ***
It's been a while since I last wrote a phlog entry. Winter has come
and sort-of gone and I've been busily involved with small projects.
The most exciting has been my foray into the Internet of Things, using
Lora nodes and gateways. Suffice to say that it you visit
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*** 2020-12-03 A New Platform ***
Jyst a quick 'n dirty update to confirm that we'vd now switched our
hardware from the original NUC to a slightly faster NUC. More later!
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*** 2022-05-27 A quick test ***
yes, i'm starting up the Phlog again.. it's been a while.
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*** 2024-01-01 Happy New Year ***
Happy 2024 to all our readers, real and bots alike!
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