Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
unintended security consequences
I used to always hit the screenlock on my mac as soon as I walked away, even if only for a minute or two. Then the security policies changed and we have to use the VPN for far more systems … but the VPN times out and disconnects if the screen is locked, which then needs account name, password, 2FA to reconnect. As a result, now I tend to leave my screen unlocked when I walk away for a few minutesAha! Solved the "NAS won't turn on" … I couldn't find the power switch
Well that is a bit embarassing, I thought it was broken, but no, the power switch is hidden on the side and hard to see due to where the NAS is sitting at the back of the desk. Plugged it back in and switched it on. Last message is that it automatically shutdown because disk 4 overheated and got to 61°C2023/0130/1549 – Review of Chain Reaction
★★★☆☆ Ordered three weeks ago, still waiting Ordered three weeks ago. Have finally recieved an email saying I can start to track my parcel and according to the tracker it took 14 days to get to LHR from the depot and has three updates labelled “incorrect labelling”, but is now on its way Edit: Turned up on the 4th weekThere’s not much more I can add to who I am.
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.