That was a good wake up and sort yourself out reminder. The friends who nagged me helped as well (all of it supportive nagging), but more being reminded how much I started to enjoy running previously. So many events I’d like to sign up to, but alas I am too heavy at the moment and …
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What I really, really want
Is a commercial grade device that connects to Ethernet and let’s me power cycle a single device remotely. What’s really annoying is I could knock something like this up for home and be happy it was safe enough, but when it comes to work we really want to be buying in professional grade products. Now …
Stupid Body
Last night on the way home I couldn’t type with my thumb, which is how I normally type on my phone. Every time my thumb was anywhere near the phone screen it would start in a fairly dramatic tremor. Fortunately I could still type if I didn’t use my thumb, but it was slightly awkward …
What I have got planned
Well there’s the running show, I’m off to next week. I’m spending more and more time playing in the mud and socialising with the friends I’ve made in the mud. So a fair few of the OCR Solo Mudders are off to the National Running show next week. (Once I’ve got my weight back down …
So I’ve started again
So being an IT geek I thought I should work out how to make a https: website and not just a http: one. In simple terms web browsers are going to start moaning more and more about http: only websites soon. Chrome always has a “Not secure” in front of the URL which doesn’t look …
EFI Dualboot – Changing EFI NVRAM boot order from Windows
So I was having some trouble making grub work on a machine that was running in EFI, but found the nice easy command efibootmgr for Linux to help me manage the boot order. “efibootmgr” without any switches to show me the current possible options and then “efibootmgr -n 0000” to tell it next reboot I …
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