@ilmari well, I say "working". neither side is complaining, but the graphs for the slaves are blank. Sigh. a rollin' up my sleeves I go!
I got an email this morning notifying me that UKUUG Ltd has now been (voluntarily) struck off at Companies House, bringing an end to over 35 years of conferences and other events.
I have written a goodbye post on my personal blog:
https://www.roguetory.org.uk/archives/2026/03/11/goodbye-ukuug-floss-uk/
@pwaring oh! I’m “glad” there’s some progress to the situation, although not sure I’m glad what the outcome is. I’ll read your post now
Happy “two weeks of chaos whilst the world slowly settles into daylight savings time” for those who celebrate
@ilmari it took longer than I thought but I added a smokeping slave today. Interesting design: master sends Perl to slaves to execute
In the case of SA, I’m not planning on using its actual filter rules, but it’s a method of connecting Exim and crm114. I guess I could swap out crm114 but I’ve been so happy with it. Another tool for this job is https://github.com/jmtd/crm114-spamd/blob/master/crm114-spamd.c. But it’s a lot less battle tested than SA
I’ve been deploying some old tech recently (smokeping, crm114, spamassassin!) and I’m wondering if they’re still the right tools for those jobs or if I’m relying on very out of date expertise
I found some late 90s mail yesterday, including stuff from a close friend of mine who since died of suicide. Ended up being pretty down about it
I just found the email where Telewest announced “Blueyonder”. Also a usenet message between me and the guy who went on to make garry’s mod (talking about Mandrake Linux 7)
@purpleidea what provoked my question was actually email but I use the year scheme for most files as well
@highvoltage I think I’m honoured to have this described as a “Jonathany question” :)
@purpleidea something spanning >1 year is a problem yes. Also non-calendar years (UK tax years, or academic). There’s definitely no bulletproof approach. But one thing I like about starting with calendar year folders is, for most stuff, it’s clear, and also caps off growth
Does anyone subdivide files etc by decade? I usually use by-year, but the lists are getting long. Something like
```
├── 199
│ ├── 1998
│ └── 1999
└── 200
├── 2001
├── 2002
└── 2003
…
```
```
├── 199
│ ├── 1998
│ └── 1999
└── 200
├── 2001
├── 2002
└── 2003
…
```
I love how vibecoded commits are called vommits. It's so perfect.
New blog post: More lava lamps
https://jmtd.net/log/lavalamps/more/
I bought some new bottles for my lava lamp, so I write about the colour combinations I have chosen. With pictures.
https://jmtd.net/log/lavalamps/more/
I bought some new bottles for my lava lamp, so I write about the colour combinations I have chosen. With pictures.
@brunogirin yes. When I hit this I took it for granted that accepting file descriptors actually made sense for someone, then it was pointed out to me, the file descriptor is not a path. Why did they even add this? I wondered if it was inherited Legacy, but they explicitly added this in 3.3.
@fred perhaps there is hope: for those of us inclined and sufficiently skilled, there remains a need for taking a machete to processes, and understanding how to do things simply. We’ll be drowning in work!