At the end of last month I finally did something about the fact that tuhs.org accepted my mail messages and then
apparently dropped them into /dev/null: I sent a message to Warren Toomey, who runs
the site.
But he was on holiday, and when he got back he found a solution: he asked me to solve the
problem, which proved to be an issue with cryptographically signed mail messages. That
didn't take long, but it precipitated a surprising amount of work. Warren has a mailing
list for the TUHS team, currently Clem Cole, Dan Cross, David Arnold, Greg Lehey, Kevin
Bowling, Larry McVoy, Matt G, Thalia Archibald, Warner Losh and Will Senn. And then he
decided that it was time for somebody else to pay for running his server: he has retired,
and he'll be turning 60 next month. I had suggested going begging, but he chose to ask
GoFundMe for donations, which came in
thick and fast. He was asking for US $1,500, and within a day or so he had more than double
that. Now to decide what to do next. It's still very much in flux: after all, it has only
been 11 days since I seem to have precipitated the whole thing.
Biriyani for dinner tomorrow?
I have this spice mix that's interesting for at least two reasons. Firstly, for biriyani it
comes from South Africa,
and secondly it has a suprising number of steps:
Sadly, on closer examination the recipe seems unbalance. 750 g meat and 1 cup of rice. How
much rice fits into a cup? It can't be more than 200 g, and if it's a rice cooker cup, only
about 140 g. For some reason I haven't added rice to my quantities page. And all these horrible cups and
spoons! In addition, how hot is it? I wouldn't want to go to that much trouble and find
that Yvonne didn't want to eat it.
Nothing for it: for what looks like becoming a one night stand, I'll have to create a
recipe page for it.
Another net failure this morning, over 80 minutes from 07:57:30 to 2026 09:19:41. That used
to be relatively common, but this time it caught me by surprise. I suppose that's a good
sign. Spent some time running Aussie
Broadband's mobile phone based test, which then claims to have sent a fault report.
If it did, it ended up in /dev/null. The last fault report they claim to have seen
was 7 years ago.
But while I was messing around with power cycling the NTD and restarting dhclient, the net
came back. No word from Aussie on the matter; there was once a time when they would
broadcast a message about the outage.
Some case of file system corruption. OK, never mind, we'll have to do without that file
(and another elsewhere), which we probably would never have looked at anyway. Remove the
files and continue.
Oh. No continue. tiwi hung. And no display. I've had issues with that before: for
reasons I don't understand, it insists on coming up with video on the DVI port, and there's nothing there. OK, Big
Red Button (the black one). But that would probably mean it hanging during boot.
Fortunately it didn't, and it came back up normally. I still don't have a display. Time to
remove tiwi from the network, and probably replace the disk drive.
Yvonne bought some tiger prawns this week, so we
rearranged our dinner to eat them as an entrée.
Yvonne is so happy about the flavour of the prawns. Are they really that much better than
the much smaller prawns I eat for breakfast? I added one 4 g prawn and one 11 g prawn for
comparison.
The difference was surprising: the tiger prawns had almost no taste, while the other two
(much cheaper) prawns tasted much better! I really didn't expect that.
The main course was grilled yellowfin tuna steaks. How do we do them? Google Gemini recommends marinating in garlic and soya sauce and then grilling for 2
minutes on either side for medium rare, or 3 minutes for medium.
Medium rare, of course. But the result was welloverdone! Quite disappointing.
A good thing I didn't follow the instructions on the packaging: make sure that the fish is
cooked through! Next time I should give it one minute each side.
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