mcwhirter.com.au/craige/blog

An Open Letter to the Bishop of Rockhampton
Posted Sat Jun 26 22:20:43 2021 by Craige McWhirter

The Consensus on Branch Names
Posted Sun May 23 22:32:58 2021 by Craige McWhirter

Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work
Posted Wed May 5 09:53:51 2021 by Craige McWhirter

Sober Living for the Revolution
Posted Tue Jan 12 12:51:27 2021 by Craige McWhirter

Crisis Proofing the Australian Economy
Posted Thu Apr 16 12:51:27 2020 by Craige McWhirter

Building Daedalus Flight on NixOS
Posted Thu Apr 2 22:04:28 2020 by Craige McWhirter

Installing LineageOS 16 on a Samsung SM-T710 (gts28wifi)
Posted Thu Oct 3 10:13:35 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Deploying TT-RSS on NixOS
Posted Wed Sep 18 14:21:35 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Deploying and Configuring Vim on NixOS
Posted Thu Sep 12 07:58:48 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Deploying Gitea on NixOS
Posted Tue Sep 10 08:27:36 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Replacing a NixOS Service with an Upstream Version
Posted Mon Sep 2 22:55:47 2019 by Craige McWhirter

NixOS Appears to be Always Building From Source
Posted Fri Aug 30 08:31:02 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Installing Your First Hydra
Posted Tue Aug 20 17:18:24 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Setting Up Wireless Networking with NixOS
Posted Thu Aug 15 09:05:13 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Generating an sha256 Hash for Nix Packages
Posted Mon Jul 22 10:24:51 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Installing NixOS on a Headless Raspberry Pi 3
Posted Wed Jun 26 09:53:47 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Booting a NixOS aarch64 Image in Qemu
Posted Thu Jun 20 11:04:28 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Installing an xmonad Environment on NixOS
Posted Fri Mar 29 22:57:43 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Secure Data in Public Configuration Management With Propellor
Posted Fri Mar 8 11:21:22 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Propagating Native Plants
Posted Thu Feb 28 16:55:46 2019 by Craige McWhirter

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
Posted Tue Feb 26 09:35:55 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Installing NixOS on an ASUS EeePC 701
Posted Wed Jan 9 10:00:15 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Happy New Workbench
Posted Sat Jan 5 17:06:59 2019 by Craige McWhirter

Book Review: Fear: Trump in the White House
Posted Mon Dec 31 10:15:13 2018 by Craige McWhirter

Book Review: Frankenstein or The modern Prometheus (uncensored 1818 edition)
Posted Mon Dec 24 11:24:35 2018 by Craige McWhirter

Configuring Solarized Colours in Termonad
Posted Thu Dec 6 15:41:02 2018 by Craige McWhirter

Finding Bugs in an Aercus WS3083
Posted Tue Dec 4 09:45:10 2018 by Craige McWhirter

Querying Installed Package Versions Across An Openstack Cloud
Posted Thu Feb 1 17:04:24 2018 by Craige McWhirter

Resolving a Partitioned RabbitMQ Cluster with JuJu
Posted Tue Jan 2 10:14:56 2018 by Craige McWhirter

First Look at Snaps
Posted Wed Dec 27 18:19:34 2017 by Craige McWhirter

Japanese House in Python for Minecraft
Posted Wed Mar 15 08:32:48 2017 by Craige McWhirter

Solarized xmobar, trayer and dmenu for xmonad
Posted Fri Mar 10 17:34:19 2017 by Craige McWhirter

Adding a Docker Runner to GitLab
Posted Thu Feb 9 11:13:23 2017 by Craige McWhirter

Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions - PyConAu 2016
Posted Sun Aug 14 11:10:06 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Keynote - Python All the Things - PyConAu 2016
Posted Sun Aug 14 09:01:13 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Python for science, side projects and stuff! - PyConAu 2016
Posted Sat Aug 13 11:14:21 2016 by Craige McWhirter

MicroPython: a journey from Kickstarter to Space by Damien George - PyConAu 2016
Posted Sat Aug 13 09:05:37 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Doing Math with Python - Amit Saha - PyConAu 2016
Posted Fri Aug 12 14:50:08 2016 by Craige McWhirter

The Internet of Not Great Things - Nick Moore - PyConAu 2016
Posted Fri Aug 12 14:10:07 2016 by Craige McWhirter

OpenBMC - Boot your server with Python - Joel Stanley - PyConAu 2016
Posted Fri Aug 12 13:30:09 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Teaching Python with Minecraft - Digital K - PyConAu 2016
Posted Fri Aug 12 11:12:17 2016 by Craige McWhirter

ESP8266 and MicroPython - Nick Moore - PyConAu 2016
Posted Fri Aug 12 10:30:14 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Scripting the Internet of Things - Damien George - PyConAu 2016
Posted Fri Aug 12 09:06:05 2016 by Craige McWhirter

LCA2016 Revisited - Copyleft For the Next Decade
Posted Tue Feb 16 15:58:19 2016 by Craige McWhirter

LCA2016 Revisited - Fuzz all the things
Posted Fri Feb 12 07:49:39 2016 by Craige McWhirter

LCA2016 Revisited - Using Linux features to make a hacker's life hard
Posted Thu Feb 11 07:44:06 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Dipping My Toe Into Federated Social Media
Posted Mon Feb 8 10:03:24 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Machine Ethics and Emerging Technologies - Paul Fenwick - LCA2016
Posted Thu Feb 4 13:57:14 2016 by Craige McWhirter

The Machine - Keith Packard - LCA2016
Posted Thu Feb 4 11:36:14 2016 by Craige McWhirter

LCA2016 Thursday Keynote - Jono Bacon
Posted Thu Feb 4 10:04:08 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Introduction to monitoring with Prometheus - Jamie Wilkinson - LCA2016
Posted Wed Feb 3 17:17:02 2016 by Craige McWhirter

The future belongs to unikernels - Andrew Stuart - LCA2016
Posted Wed Feb 3 16:20:14 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Sentrifarm - open hardware telemetry system for Australian farming conditions - Andrew McDonnell - LCA2016
Posted Wed Feb 3 14:05:47 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Usable formal methods - are we there yet? - Stefan Götz - LCa2016
Posted Wed Feb 3 12:14:53 2016 by Craige McWhirter

CloudABI - Ed Schouten - LCa2016
Posted Wed Feb 3 11:23:55 2016 by Craige McWhirter

LCA2016 Wednesday Keynote - Catarina Mota
Posted Wed Feb 3 10:03:24 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Haskell is Not For Production and Other Tales - Katie Miller - LCA2016
Posted Tue Feb 2 17:15:08 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Internet Archive: Universal Access, Open APIs - VM Brasseur - LCA2016
Posted Tue Feb 2 15:01:17 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Functional Programming in Python - Juan Nunez-Iglesiasis - LCA2016
Posted Tue Feb 2 12:20:17 2016 by Craige McWhirter

Functional Programming, Parametricity, Types - Tony Morris - LCA2016
Posted Tue Feb 2 11:29:43 2016 by Craige McWhirter

LCA2016 Tuesday Keynote - George Fong
Posted Tue Feb 2 10:03:24 2016 by Craige McWhirter

ESPlant - Open Hardware Miniconf - LCA2016
Posted Mon Feb 1 13:29:35 2016 by Craige McWhirter

The Dream of the 90's UI is Alive at Mozilla
Posted Thu Nov 5 16:19:58 2015 by Craige McWhirter

Enable Root Login Over SSH With Cloud-Init on OpenStack
Posted Wed Oct 14 07:55:14 2015 by Craige McWhirter

Trouble Shooting MySQL ERROR 1136 (21S01)
Posted Thu Oct 8 18:20:59 2015 by Craige McWhirter

Getting started with Xmonad
Posted Wed Sep 2 21:50:13 2015 by Craige McWhirter

PyConAu - Day Two
Posted Sun Aug 2 16:51:17 2015 by Craige McWhirter

PyConAu - Day One
Posted Sat Aug 1 16:46:21 2015 by Craige McWhirter

OpenStack Miniconf at PyConAu
Posted Fri Jul 31 09:37:46 2015 by Craige McWhirter

How To Configure Debian to Use The Tiny Programmer ISP Board
Posted Sun Jul 19 13:47:03 2015 by Craige McWhirter

How To Delete a Cinder Snapshot with a Status of error or error_deleting With Ceph Block Storage
Posted Mon Jun 29 16:09:27 2015 by Craige McWhirter

How To Resolve a Volume is Busy Error on Cinder With Ceph Block Storage
Posted Fri May 22 15:11:55 2015 by Craige McWhirter

Rebuilding An OpenStack Instance and Keeping the Same Fixed IP
Posted Wed Apr 29 12:48:53 2015 by Craige McWhirter

Attaching Multiple Network Interfaces and Floating IPs to OpenStack Instances with Neutron
Posted Thu Feb 5 10:49:24 2015 by Craige McWhirter

A Little Vim Hack For Go
Posted Sat Jan 24 21:01:07 2015 by Craige McWhirter

Configuring CoreOS Toolbox to Use Debian
Posted Fri Jan 16 10:02:40 2015 by Craige McWhirter

Managing KVM Console Logs for Nova
Posted Thu Dec 4 12:05:49 2014 by Craige McWhirter

An Unexpected Journey
Posted Fri Nov 21 21:34:48 2014 by Craige McWhirter

Deleting Root Volumes Attached to Non-Existent Instances
Posted Fri Nov 21 10:58:44 2014 by Craige McWhirter

Automating Building and Synchronising Local & Remote Git Repos With Github
Posted Sat Oct 25 21:08:50 2014 by Craige McWhirter

Post Receive Git Hook to Push to Github
Posted Tue Oct 7 11:07:16 2014

Enabling OpenStack Roles To Resize Volumes Via Policy
Posted Thu Sep 25 03:38:05 2014

Resizing a Root Volume for an Openstack Instance
Posted Wed Sep 24 06:32:37 2014

Converting an Instance to an Image in OpenStack
Posted Tue Sep 23 05:00:20 2014

Matching Ceph Volumes To Nova Instances
Posted Tue Sep 2 03:41:41 2014

Introduction to Managing OpenStack Via the CLI
Posted Mon Aug 18 03:34:52 2014

Making Your Debian Workstation an OpenStack Management Client
Posted Wed Jul 2 04:15:25 2014

Find the IP Address of a Virtual Machine
Posted Wed Jul 2 01:24:05 2014

Satanic Shed of Geeveston
Posted Sun Mar 9 22:37:24 2014

Enlightenment 0.18 Won't Suspend on Debian
Posted Mon Feb 24 20:46:07 2014

A Script for Broken Links
Posted Fri Feb 14 12:41:41 2014

That's Not a Zuccini...
Posted Mon Feb 10 12:18:10 2014

Next Phase of Learning
Posted Sat Feb 8 07:47:42 2014

First Day of School
Posted Wed Feb 5 00:40:04 2014

Hamish and Sen - Explorers
Posted Sun Feb 2 11:27:00 2014

First Blackberry of the Season
Posted Sat Feb 1 07:20:16 2014

Learning Python the Hard Way
Posted Thu Jan 30 20:42:38 2014

Utilising VLANs in OpenWRT
Posted Thu Jan 30 02:41:54 2014

Crashing the Web UI in OpenWRT
Posted Tue Jan 28 05:23:49 2014

Old Man of the Sea
Posted Mon Jan 27 09:11:54 2014

Embed RoundCube In ownCloud
Posted Fri Jan 24 11:50:42 2014

Rocket Stove
Posted Tue Jan 21 10:14:34 2014

Internal Port Forwarding with OpenWRT 12.09
Posted Tue Jan 21 05:14:15 2014

External Port Forwarding with OpenWRT 12.09
Posted Mon Jan 20 05:03:57 2014

Installing OpenWRT on a TP-Link TL-WDR4300
Posted Mon Jan 13 02:07:16 2014

Snakes! Cicadas! On a Farm!
Posted Sun Jan 12 11:45:19 2014

LCA2014 - Friday
Posted Sun Jan 12 00:27:03 2014

Adding a Git Repo To GitWeb
Posted Thu Jan 9 16:40:19 2014

LCA2014 - Thursday
Posted Thu Jan 9 13:53:04 2014

LCA2014 - Wednesday
Posted Wed Jan 8 09:38:29 2014

LCA2014 - Tuesday
Posted Tue Jan 7 15:57:18 2014

Syncing Firefox With ownCloud
Posted Tue Jan 7 04:02:24 2014

LCA2014 - Monday
Posted Mon Jan 6 16:03:47 2014

The Sweetest Sound
Posted Fri Jan 3 11:46:19 2014

Man vs Chicken
Posted Thu Jan 2 10:33:18 2014

Philanthropy 2013
Posted Tue Dec 31 11:10:26 2013

Lathed
Posted Mon Dec 16 09:56:32 2013

The Real Digital Divide
Posted Thu Dec 12 22:48:56 2013

Geeveston - The Resistance Needs You
Posted Wed Dec 11 09:57:38 2013

Back on the Horse
Posted Tue Dec 3 02:19:10 2013

Buckland Peacocks
Posted Fri Nov 29 20:48:10 2013

Misty Vista
Posted Wed Nov 27 22:48:48 2013

Hacking Harvest
Posted Mon Nov 25 20:28:50 2013

Garden Surprises
Posted Thu Nov 21 20:31:57 2013

Bi-Quad 3G Intarwebs
Posted Tue Nov 12 11:08:23 2013

Prof. Eben Moglen on Snowden & NSA Spying
Posted Thu Oct 31 11:16:19 2013

Tailgater!
Posted Mon Oct 7 08:51:09 2013

A New Hope
Posted Sun Sep 29 21:29:56 2013

Secret to Happiness
Posted Tue Sep 24 12:02:41 2013

Wheel Barrow of Death
Posted Sun Sep 15 21:59:48 2013

WikiLeaks Party Continues to Implode
Posted Wed Aug 21 13:32:15 2013

WikiLeaks Party Fail At the First Hurdle
Posted Mon Aug 19 14:16:12 2013

PRISM Break - Encrypted SMS
Posted Mon Jul 22 13:29:42 2013

PRISM Break - Reclaiming Your Privacy
Posted Sun Jul 21 12:55:29 2013

Love is a 2-Stroke Auger
Posted Fri Jul 12 11:47:26 2013

ownCloud - Surviving the RSS Apocalypse
Posted Thu Jul 11 11:14:55 2013

Putting My Head in My ownCloud
Posted Wed Jul 10 09:22:13 2013

Setting an ASUS Transformer Free
Posted Tue Jul 2 12:27:28 2013

Lightdm - Setting Enlightenment as Default
Posted Thu Jun 27 12:44:54 2013

Winter Solstice - Better Than Christmas
Posted Tue Jun 25 12:53:45 2013

LDAP and Self Signed SSL Certificates
Posted Tue Jun 25 01:06:12 2013

ldapsearch - Querying Remote Hosts
Posted Mon Jun 24 01:36:11 2013

Tangled Up In Blue
Posted Mon Jun 10 02:49:01 2013

In Australia Even The Trees Will Kill You
Posted Sun Jun 2 23:29:13 2013

No WikiLeaks Party Candidate for Tasmania
Posted Tue May 28 10:09:53 2013

Dam Swans
Posted Sun May 26 00:49:52 2013

Connor's Table
Posted Tue May 21 11:06:24 2013

Sixty Tea-Trees of Preparation
Posted Sun May 19 11:12:18 2013

Hamish vs Spicks and Specks
Posted Wed May 15 12:11:01 2013

Hamish's First Day at AusKick
Posted Thu May 9 21:43:00 2013

TasLUG State-Wide Meetup in Ross
Posted Sat May 4 23:41:00 2013

F-Google I'm Off to F-Droid
Posted Sat Mar 16 22:20:00 2013

Writing a Debian ISO to a USB Stick
Posted Fri Dec 14 15:07:00 2012

Dream that Scared the Life Into Me
Posted Mon Nov 26 22:05:00 2012

Configuring Debian 7.0 (Wheezy) to Use a Telstra 4G USB Dongle
Posted Mon Nov 26 16:53:00 2012

NBN Satellite Dishes for Geeveston
Posted Wed Jul 11 12:26:00 2012

Encrypted Disks on Debian 7.0 (Wheezy)
Posted Sun May 27 22:52:00 2012

Keeping In Touch With TasLUG
Posted Tue Apr 17 22:17:00 2012

TasLUG (South) - April Meetup!
Posted Fri Apr 13 10:43:00 2012

Nicola in the Spring
Posted Fri Dec 2 19:00:00 2011

Honey Goat's Milk Soap Launched!
Posted Sun Apr 3 22:42:00 2011

Goat's Milk Soap!
Posted Wed Mar 2 17:39:00 2011

The Kind of Stuff that Only Prince Would Sing About
Posted Tue Apr 6 22:06:00 2010

Same Planet, Different Worlds
Posted Tue Dec 8 07:09:00 2009

A Tale of Two Goaties
Posted Thu Nov 12 21:33:00 2009

15 out of 50 isn't too bad...
Posted Sun Oct 18 16:14:00 2009

The Blackboard is GO!
Posted Sun Oct 18 16:01:00 2009

Greens Win the Seat of Fremantle - 44% Primary - 54% Final :)
Posted Sun May 17 16:32:00 2009

Life and Death Under the Island Sky
Posted Thu May 7 21:14:00 2009

Swan's Song on Cutting Executive Salaries
Posted Sun Apr 19 11:35:00 2009

New Arrivals
Posted Sat Apr 11 20:57:00 2009

Current and Future Opportunities in Wind Energy
Posted Wed Oct 8 14:49:00 2008

Thanks for the Porridge, Chris Robinson
Posted Thu Sep 18 09:20:00 2008

Is Australia on the Cusp of Geothermal Energy?
Posted Tue Aug 26 13:59:00 2008

Hot rocks future heating up - ABC Online
Posted Wed Aug 20 14:00:00 2008

Slowly, Softly
Posted Tue Aug 19 21:20:00 2008

Sydney City Farm
Posted Thu Jul 10 14:52:00 2008

Committee Member - ATA Central-Sydney
Posted Wed Jul 9 14:05:00 2008

Weapons of Bovine Obstruction
Posted Tue Jun 24 00:06:00 2008

Visitors of the Ringtail Variety
Posted Wed Jun 18 23:07:00 2008

A Crater Ate My Paddock
Posted Sun Jun 1 19:16:00 2008

I Can Rest in Peace (or I lived to see the Weddoes play @ The Gaelic Club in Surry Hills)
Posted Sun Apr 6 12:29:00 2008

Virtual Tour of the Farm
Posted Tue Apr 1 06:15:00 2008

The Farm in Tassie
Posted Mon Mar 31 13:10:00 2008

Getting Old?
Posted Thu Mar 13 21:46:00 2008

Australia to Develop an Electric Car?
Posted Tue Jan 8 09:36:00 2008

Solar power to Re-energise Mackellar
Posted Wed Aug 22 22:26:00 2007

Major Parties Turn their Backs on Renters
Posted Thu Aug 9 22:55:00 2007

Greens blame tax cuts for interest rate rise
Posted Thu Aug 9 22:24:00 2007

There's Something About Kitty
Posted Mon Jul 9 15:46:00 2007

Greens kick off Mackellar campaign
Posted Fri Jul 6 14:32:00 2007

Greens Candidate for Mackellar
Posted Wed Jul 4 00:00:00 2007

Greens Support Solar High School
Posted Wed Jul 4 00:00:00 2007

Wheels of Change
Posted Sat Jan 20 18:53:00 2007

The Magnificent 7
Posted Sat Jan 20 09:04:00 2007

LCA Starts Tomorrow
Posted Sun Jan 14 13:09:00 2007

The Value of Community
Posted Fri Dec 15 14:54:00 2006

Dances with Rotary Hoes
Posted Thu Sep 28 17:02:00 2006

Greens Candidate for Pittwater
Posted Fri Sep 8 12:11:00 2006

Microsoft MD Appointed Chair of Australian ICT
Posted Fri Sep 1 17:47:00 2006

Creating a Dream IT Policy
Posted Thu Aug 10 12:23:00 2006

Using a Standard Debian / Ubuntu Kernel on DELL PERCraid Servers
Posted Sat Aug 5 17:23:00 2006

Billion Dollar Crop
Posted Tue Jul 18 17:16:00 2006

Failed to connect to socket tmp fam
Posted Fri Jul 7 15:42:00 2006

I Have No Name!
Posted Fri Jul 7 15:27:00 2006

Ubuntu Live CD to the Rescue
Posted Thu Jun 29 20:56:00 2006

Creating an Ubuntu/Debian PPTP Client
Posted Tue Jun 27 21:09:00 2006

Edubuntu & Linux Australia at the Education Expo
Posted Sun Jun 25 20:59:00 2006

McWhirter [consulting] Joins OSIA
Posted Mon May 22 19:28:00 2006

Setting up Your Own x.509 Certificate Authority
Posted Wed Apr 12 11:07:00 2006

Migration Issues from 4.10 (Warty) to 5.04 (Hoary)
Posted Mon Apr 11 21:20:00 2005

Issues Installing Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty) on a Dell Dimension 4700
Posted Tue Jan 25 19:02:00 2005

Issues Installing Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty) on a Dell Dimension 8400
Posted Mon Jan 17 22:21:00 2005

Making a Debian or Ubuntu Machine an LDAP Authentication Client
Posted Mon Jan 17 19:51:00 2005