Last night I clicked the update button when prompted to switch from Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy (I think!) to Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar. I say I think because I’m not entirely sure what version I was on before. Possibly I’d updated to 22.10… but it doesn’t matter. The fun comes in when I hit that update, but … Read more
For reasons that currently escape me, I started using Docker for smbd a while back. I’m not sure if it’s the case by default, but my installation of Ubuntu has samba running as soon as the machine starts up. This conflicts with the Docker container implementation, and as the local samba starts before Docker, that … Read more
This morning I needed to do a deploy to production on a Kubernetes cluster. One of the useful commands is seeing the output of a kubectl get pods -n {some namespace}, which is one way to get a summary of the pods being transitioned between old and new. The “problem”, as such, is that the … Read more
A good few years back now I made a post on the previous iteration of this site about my problems with Portrait mode in Ubuntu. I still run a similar set of screens, but my triple monitor setup has slightly changed since then. What I will say is that in Ubuntu 22.x onwards (currently just … Read more
Five days a week I ride my bike. A lot of those days are done indoors, on what is a very nerdy exercise bike setup. There’s a bit more too it than that, and if you are at all interested, have a read of (one of) my other blog(s) over at CyclingIndoors.co.uk. Why that’s relevant … Read more
To upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to the latest LTS (Long Term Support) release, you’ll need to follow a series of steps. The current Ubuntu LTS at the time of writing is 22.04.3, and this process is unlikely to change in the near term future. Here are the steps I followed to upgrade from Ubuntu … Read more
Yesterday I got hit with the double whammy. I tried to upgrade GitLab to v16.3.4 as part of their recent critical security release when I realised that the GitLab server was running version 15.x (I don’t remember which minor release), so first I would need to install 16.0.0, then get up to 16.3.4. This, it … Read more
This one cost me a whole bunch of time. Annoyingly I got a Docker version of Postgres 16 working on one machine, but a couple of days later I needed to update another and I hit this error: Somewhat fortunately for me, this time around, was that this was a test setup I have used … Read more
My computer is dual use. Gaming, and work. It runs pretty much 24/7/365, but when I play a game at night in Windows, then reboot back into Linux, I have to manually log in and mount my drive(s) or my overnight backups don’t work. Of course, I frequently forget to log in. And even when … Read more
All week now I’ve been wanting to have a try with JetBrain’s Compose Multiplatform Desktop. The demos I’ve found looked great. As a heads up though, those demos are all showing OSX as the run target. I am aware that Compose for Desktop can run against Windows, and (interesting to me) Linux. What I was … Read more
