25 years on from Y2K

It’s a Friday night after a long week back at work, so what do you do? You sit down with your partner and rank western-style fast food chains, with a healthy (hmm) dose of childhood nostalgia. Disclaimer: Fast food is bad, I should feel bad, and giving soulless multinational companies free advertising is bad. With that out of the way, here’s my...

This is a bit more of what my American friends would call Inside Baseball… which I assume would just more baseball. It’s baseball all the way down! Wait, that’s Terry Pratchet. Jeff Geerling did a retrospective last year where he talked—among other things—about clickbait titles. He said his video about replacing the AppleTV with a Raspberry Pi...

The EFF saw Mozilla, and said “hold my beer” on Mastodon: We applaud Meta’s efforts to try to fix its over-censorship problem […] Imagine seeing what’s going on, and thinking that’s an appropriate opening for a post. In the local vernacular: you what mate? They’ve since issued what could (charitably) be described as a partial retraction. But...

This is part two in my shaggy dog story about the PlayStation 3, one of my favourite ever consoles. In part one I talked about my history (or lack thereof) with consoles as a kid, how I was first fascinated by the PS3 for its ability to run Folding@home and play Blu-ray discs, and how Clara and I ended up with a couple of them. But how!? I’d say...

The way Feature Keys are downloaded for WatchGuard FireboxV evaluations has changed, at least since the last time I had to do this for a client. On the off-chance this helps someone: Log into the WatchGuard Partner Portal, and under the Products menu, click Virtual Appliance Evaluation. Next to the WatchGuard Product you want to request an...