Long live the machine – a great policy paper on things that the EU could do to force manufacturers to make laptops last longer.
Month: February 2020
Today I learned about ‘chip creep’ that used to happen on older PCs: a chip working its way out of a socket over time as it expanded and contracted from heating and cooling. And that a quick way to fix a motherboard with lots of creeping chips was to gently drop it on the table.
I like East Coker by TS Eliot. I don’t think I understand it all. But I like it.
“Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.”
I’ve been doing more server maintenance and system administration than coding lately (not as much of either as I’d like to though, to be honest) and I really enjoy it. All very basic stuff though, couldn’t pretend to know what it’s like when it gets large scale. I want to play with some infrastructure as code stuff though, think I’d like that.
Our first event in Lancaster!
The tail of Storm Ciara is gusting away through the trees outside at about 60mph. The white noise is oddly soothing when you’re in the inside. I hope it doesn’t do much more damage to the trees though.
I’m reading Dune at the moment. First time doing so. It’s really good so far. It feels a bit like a fantasy book, but with little hints of sci-fi thrown in here and there.
I like the way it’s written. I like how the characters have these little thoughts as asides now and then.
Feuding dukes doesn’t really get me going plot wise, but some of this CHOAM company stuff seems like it could be interesting.
I like exploded diagrams. These are from the service manual for the HP Stream 11.
