General Blather

In an unexpected move, the software for this blog got an update! A security fix and some things that were lingering in its between releases repository state. This meant I had to rebuild the blog software, which led to some different observations. more »

Without checking for conflicts or anything related to deprecated packages, I allowed the server to do the distribution upgrade it's been pestering for, moving from Ubuntu 21.04 to 21.10. more »

This morning started with rearranging the office, and ended with a computer upgrade, and a rearranged (if messy) office. more »

This morning's break of the server has been repaired, and all seems normal. more »

The morning started out with some simple updates, one of which wanted the server to reboot. more »

With the latest release of the Ubuntu 20.04 Beta, I thought I'd give it a shot. I've been using the early access releases of the Focal Fossa, but I'd installed it as a distribution upgrade over the earlier 19.10 release. more »

Ubuntu OS 16.04, named Xenial Xerus, was released. Days later I've rebuilt my server to correct the fails of the upgrade. more »