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Any icy place for some pie!

A droid tank

Another great post from PacketBomb Understanding Throughput and TCP Windows. I’m learning more than I should from this site, and it’s reminding me of things I should have checked when troubleshooting things in the past 😉

Rugged up for the winter, our friend’s ready to go!

There’s a couple of these every year, and this one’s on day 2 - I’m not even sure what this is? Happy to discuss in the comments below! 🙂

Another great article from the Netflix Blog - Linux performance analysis in 60s

In 60 seconds you can get a high level idea of system resource usage and running processes by running the following ten commands. Look for errors and saturation metrics, as they are both easy to interpret, and then resource utilization. Saturation is where a resource has more load than it can handle, and can be exposed either as the length of a request queue, or time spent waiting.

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Some cute little remote control cars!

Jabba’s Sail Barge

A micro-set of Jabba’s Sail Barge - really named the Khetanna.

Update 9/3/2016: It seems this triggers the VPN-detection mechanism on Netflix’ services, blocking access to all streaming. Thankfully it seems Internode has worked out how to make Netflix content unmetered on IPV6, so it’s no longer required!

Currently access to Netflix via Internode is unmetered, but not if you’re using their IPv6 connectivity. I’ve got a Mikrotik router and wanted to see if I could force it down to IPv4 without disabling connectivity for my desktop machine (which I use mainly for Netflix). It seems just blocking one range (currently) is enough:

The carb rebuild kits arrived yesterday, with all the associated bits and bobs I need to fix most everything on them. I previous mentioned that they included the floats, but they don’t, which hopefully won’t prove to be an issue. The floats look to be in good condition and I’ve seen mention of repairing any pinprick holes with epoxy, which should serve to get the bike on the road at least initially.