Month: September 2020

  • Quick Reflection

    Why does this blog exist? What is it for? When this blog was set up it was suggested the blog wouldn’t write about many things. Having launched it, that has been the case. Only a few posts have been made to date. Author/s behind this blog are deeply compassionate and deeply moved by social injustice…

  • PineTab, PinePhone, PineBook

    Pine is a platform of multiple low cost devices, starting with a range of single board computers (things the size and functional level of a Raspberry Pi and in a similar sub-$100 price bracket), which has extended into a laptop, phone and tablet in the last couple of years. The distinguishing factor in the case…

  • 6th Labour Government led by another “smile and wave” politician of no substance.

    This blog has previously focused on concerns about Labour’s health policy with particular relevance to the Canterbury District Health Board leadership crisis. This was the subject of a series of blog posts in the last few weeks. The hallmark of the John Key led National government was that Key was perceived to be a “front…

  • Rsync Backup System [7]: Current System

    So it has proved desirable to return to making backups from a remote server connected over a network. This is currently a separate computer in our setup of computers, but we plan to integrate it into one of the existing computers (the one that is used mainly to play media) since we have determined the…