I've now configured a redirector within Google Cloud to handle redirects from the old blog and point them to the Wordpress-centric domain. Essentially doing what wordpress.com was doing while the domain was still with them.
I'll leave this in place until I decide what to do with the blog.
I have now transferred my domain off Wordpress.
I am no longer shackled here.
blenderfox.com is now disconnected from my blog. I'll migrate it away from Wordpress soon.
I have decided to disconnect my domain from Wordpress in November. I'll attempt to redirect back to Wordpress for any articles that may be bookmarked.
I'm going to be disconnecting the domain from this blog probably in the next month or so.
I'll move the domain off Wordpress and plug in a redirect to bring it back here for those who have bookmarked my articles.
Wordpress threw me onto one of their default themes since my plan expired. So I had to go find a free one that looked half decent
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Yes, a lot of technical stuff there
I posted this a while ago.
But given I’ve had my uncle lose his fight for life, and my uncle’s mother-in-law also lose her fight for life, I wanted to reference this article again. This article might be about speeding, but there’s an important point within in – you have a chance to speak to your family. To your loved ones. Right now. Talk to them, call them, write to them. You have no idea whether they will be around tomorrow – or you, for that matter.
Source: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/the-linux-commands-you-should-never-use-1712.html
The classic rm -rf / is there, along with accidental dd‘ing or mkfs‘ing the wrong disk (I’ve done that before), but the lesser known fork bombs and moving to /dev/null are in there (I often redirect output to /dev/null, but not moved files into there. That’s an interesting way of getting rid of files.
Not often I quote from a publication from Ireland, but this was quite an intriguing read. Someone who went from Windows to Mac to Linux (Mint)
Linux is everywhere – and will free your computer from corporate clutchesIt was 2002, I was up against a deadline and a bullying software bubble popped up in Windows every few minutes. Unless I paid to upgrade my virus scanner – now! – terrible things would happen.
We’ve all had that right?
In a moment of clarity I realised that the virus scanner – and its developer’s aggressive business model – was more of a pest than any virus I’d encountered. Microsoft’s operating system was full of this kind of nonsense, so, ignoring snorts of derision from tech friends, I switched to the Apple universe.It was a great choice: a system that just worked, designed by a team that clearly put a lot of thought into stability and usability. Eventually the iPhone came along, and I was sucked in farther, marvelling at the simple elegance of life on Planet Apple and giving little thought to the consequences.
Then the dream developed cracks. My MacBook is 10 years old and technically fine, particularly since I replaced my knackered old hard drive with a fast new solid-state drive. So why the hourly demands to update my Apple operating system, an insistence that reminded of the Windows virus scanner of old?
Apple is no different to Microsoft it seems.
I don’t want to upgrade. My machine isn’t up to it, and I’m just fine as I am. But, like Microsoft, Apple has ways of making you upgrade. Why? Because, as a listed company, it has quarterly sales targets to meet. And users of older MacBooks like me are fair game.I looked at the price of a replacement MacBook but laughed at the idea of a midrange laptop giving me small change from €1,200. Two years after I de-Googled my life(iti.ms/2ASlrdY) I began my Apple prison break.
He eventually went for Linux Mint, which for a casual user is fine. I use Fedora and Ubuntu (and a really old version of Ubuntu since my workplace VPN doesn’t seem to work properly with anything above Ubuntu 14 - their way of forcing me onto either a Windows or Mac machine)
Source: www.irishtimes.com/business/…
I’ve been slacking in my running for a fair bit, and not doing my usual distances.
This last week, I’ve been through the painful process of saying goodbye to my uncle from the viewing in the mortuary, to the final viewing, the funeral, and the internment of the ashes.
Cancer is a horrible condition, indiscriminate and relentless. But it doesn’t always mean death. Research has allowed cancer patients a good quality of life compared to a few decades ago and it continues to grow as research progresses.
In 2014 I did the Royal Parks Half Marathon (completion post here). It was a painful experience, but one I’m going to attempt to go for again. I’m going to train up for another Half Marathon and this time nominate a cancer charity. The current primary charity I’m thinking of is Cancer Research UK.
The malware backdoor in this story is quite intriguing. They are targeting specific companies (Samsung, Akamai, Cisco, Microsoft amongst them) and only attempting the second level attack if they are detecting they are being installed there.
The advice mentioned in the article is that anyone who installed the software on their system should REFORMAT THEIR DRIVE. Quite an extreme recommendation. My suggestion - stop using Windows.
Source: CCleaner malware outbreak is much worse than it first appeared | Ars Technica
Doing a run through the local area while playing Ingress, and found someone by the name of “Andy” had done a lap of Hadley Wood and back down into the village in the time it took me to clean up the village. Perhaps I need to get my distance back pretty sharpish.
Source: Lunch Run | Run | Strava
Next time you or someone else think that pets are family, look at these. Sometimes, pets are more in tune than other humans.
In fact, pets can easily save people’s lives. It might have been too late for Kylie, but not for Eric.
I have created a guide to update from Cyanogenmod to LineageOS – created as part of my attempt to update my S5.
I don’t normally write too many articles these days, but there’s a site I like to read from every so often to keep my hopes up
Take a browse and let me know what you think….
Also in today’s open source roundup: Ultimate Edition 5.0 Gamers distro released, and Android versus iOS for business
Source: Why a MacOS user switched to Ubuntu Linux | InfoWorld
Steam was one of the many things that broke with Ubuntu 16.04 because of numerous changes in package names and dependencies. Fortunately, here’s a guide to fix that. Now, back to my Dungeon Defenders :D
Source: How To Install Steam on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - OMG! Ubuntu!
健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 3.01 km in 18m:01s.
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Since the Royal Parks HM, I’ve been having pains in my left knee and hip, so perhaps I have picked up an injury of sorts. In the meanwhile, I am reviewing my running style and trying to change it so that I’m not hitting the ground with a rigid leg, which is most likely why my knee and hip is hurting.
One artist creates his own tribute to the memory of the Korean accident.
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Why you should never swear at strangers on the train http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568330/s/4392a07e/sc/7/l/0L0Stelegraph0O0Cnews0Cnewstopics0Chowaboutthat0C114242260CWhy0Eyou0Eshould0Enever0Eswear0Eat0Estrangers0Eon0Ethe0Etrain0Bhtml/story01.htm
I am a Ram :D
