Andy C @andyc@mastodon.sdf.org

Where Have All the Boot Boys Gone https://g.co/kgs/qdg72X

My mummy was quite concerned and suggested I go and stand close to a man in an orange vest. Which I have now done.

Some Carshalton bovvers boys are congregating near me in a menacing manner. They have beards, shaved heads and are drinking Kronenburg 1664. I think I will call my mummy.

An acrobatic diving header makes it 1-1.

K's have addressed the 'left back problem' by dropping the left back and replacing him with a right footed centre half.

K's 1-0 up thanks to a flukey cross that turned into a goal

Down at Kingstonian FC to see new manager as they take on Carshalton.

@rpcutts Remember in Early Doors when Tommy is occasionally offered a pint and he always replies 'No thanks. I'll just stick on me own'. I loved that show.

[ Reply to a now non-existent post about woman from London setting up a tab in a bar ]

'Would it be possible to quickly pop in to the Wakefield office on Monday morning with your security clearance forms ?'

'Err, no. I live in Saarf Laanndaann with me trotters up on my desk.'

Reverse regionalism in action 🙂

I really want to love Docker and adopt it universally and be the Docker guru at work but I find it slightly complicated. Maybe I need to devote more time to it but I certainly don't find it simple.

Or maybe I'm just more comfortable in a real or virtual Linux environment with a decent package manager.

Yet another 'project plan' arrives in my Inbox in the form of an Excel spreadsheet. Are we really in 2019 ?

And, no, I am not expecting or wanting a Microsoft project dump either. Just words, preferably on a Wiki page that people can review/edit.

And Oracle has such a Wiki available to all employees (well those that aren't feckin' Luddites).

Fuck's sake. The missus can just use the Fiorefox add-ons ublock origin and privacy badger in Firefox and just tolerate the additional CPU load.

Yak shaving paprika pineapple fucking borken Linux deluxe

https://clients.hostigger.com/news/view/3/centos-7---failed-to-set-moklistrt--invalid-parameter/

Complete and utter failure to copy a mysterious files from one place to another in the mysterious EFIU shell.

Fuck it ! CentOS it is.

Work desktop - Arch
Work laptop - Oracle Linux
Wife's laptop - Linux Mint
FreeNAS - FreeBSD
FreeNAS VM - Debian
Son's gaming machine - Windows 7

Hang on. Even I can try this one line workaround...

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/upgrade-from-11-u1-to-11-u2-breaks-vm-boots-to-uefi-interactive-shell.56450/

Debian VM doesn't boot cleanly on FreeNAS due to something mysterious called 'UEFI'. Had this before. Re-installing pihole on CentOS which just works.

I *know* there's a workaround but it's complicated (to me) and I think VM's should just work OOTB now that FreeNAS is out of beta.

Still, at least @rpcutts will be pleased some yak shaving was involved after all.

Oh I think I need to attend FOSDEM 2020 as this presentation addresses a problem I had on my wife's Linux Mint laptop when I was checking Pi-Hole.

I really don't like software that grabs control and deviates from a widely ack'ed standard (although in this case it appears to be transparent).

Nor does my wife.

https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/dns_systemd_resolved/

After all the hand wringing, half-half scarves, floral tributes, mosaics , black armbands, tears and minutes silence, the awkward business of football finance is finally resumed.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/feb/09/squabbles-over-money-before-sala-is-even-buried-expose-games-hard-face