Where’s the dog?

n December of this year it’ll be 3 years of uptime (not just 1,000 days), so I am extremely pleased with the stability of Linux. It runs mostly on old hardware.

Yesterday we went to a store that used to be known as “Cash Generator” (it looked like it changed ownership) to assess laptops that are pre-owned (used) and understand the correlation between storage (disk space) and price.

It looks like the insane price surges did not spare the “pre-owned” space.

For now, thankfully, we have enough hardware and storage.

Mintro looks OK (can’t complain), but where was the dog that was inside when it was “Cash Generator”?

Mintro, bring back a (or the) dog. It attracts customers like us.

Many people still remember how they first heard about it (and where)

still remember how I found out about the 9/11 (2021) attacks. I was likely on a plane at the time, flying back to Manchester. After I had landed and picked up my suitcase the cab driver told me that a plane hit a building in the US. I assumed it was 1) a small plane (one person); 2) only one collision; 3) an accident.

When I arrived home I began to realise what happened. Maybe some of the collisions happened after my landing^*. I never checked and compared the times; the media focused on entirely different aspects (not the exact times).

That was 25 years ago. I was a student at the time. The world has changed profoundly since then, and not at all for the better.

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^* If the air crew (onboard in English airspace) knew about what happened, then they chose not to tell passengers. That’s understandable. Panic is a safety hazard.

Strong start

think the derby this coming Sunday (2 days from now) will be hard for Manchester City. United is doing OK since that awful first match in Hull and despite last night’s rival (quite new in European football) being generally weak, United handled it very well. Yesterday we walked in Town for a couple of hours and saw salespeople of match scarfs in the streets.

Manchester United used to be almost synonymous with Manchester. Not anymore.

An uptime of 1000 days

did not know if I’d ever make it. But I did:

roy@bubi:~$ uptime
 07:43:19 up 1000 days, 22:55,  3 users,  load average: 7.07, 7.03, 7.04

And notice the lack of comma, it says “1000″.

Stevie Wonder coming here again

n Manchester and elsewhere, Stevie Wonder has new concerts coming up. We nearly went last year. My sister changed her mind at the end.

In my family, nearly everyone is a Stevie Wonder fan. Even my wife likes his music. I’ve asked my sister to invite us.

Stevie Wonder might not live for much longer. Based on video of his last performance here, he’s doing well, nowhere near rusty. But he is not getting younger, either.

Quality matters

started this year on a high note and with good momentum. It seemed like I’d manage to publish 8,000 articles per year in Techrights. With Rianne very active as well, 12,000 in Tux Machines (this year alone) seemed attainable. It’s still going at that pace.

Somewhere along the way I realised that Techrights was probably published too much, so I decided to offload and post more personal topics in this blog.

As a result, Techrights focuses on what it does best and this old (22 years) blog of mine is more active again and it sometimes receives comments.

Simple, but still brilliant, still one of my favourites.