by ezs | May 12, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – first time out without the kids in 10 weeks. Socially distanced barbecue in the mountains. Brazil and Russia cases are growing quickly. UK daily deaths dropping.
Seattle Times continues with great local coverage; The Guardian summaries are another good archive (note: Google/Bing for site includes https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mmm/dd/uk-cornavirus-live to find the majority of hits; BBC urls are really unfindable if you miss them).
Friday – echoing the experience in WA state – care homes, nursing homes and similar are a real hotspot for infection. “Warp Speed” for vaccine.
Thursday – 36M unemployed in the US, quarter of workforce on benefits, this winter could be “bleakest ever”.
Global case count is still increasing.
Wednesday – Coronavirus may never go away say WHO.
Tuesday – Russia coronavirus cases explode. Brazil 881 deaths today. Fauci says US not under control.
Tuesday data from The Seattle Times:
Monday – Week 10. UK lockdown guidance
Local and global coverage for future reference.
by ezs | May 10, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Last year I noted that the ASUS Access Points were pretty much end of life. A pair of RT-AC66U and RT-AC68U had been providing pretty solid wifi coverage for trusted, untrusted and guest devices for around seven years. Sporadic updates from ASUS; more frequent updates from RMerlinDev – but a clear sunsetting of seven year old hardware.
I had been eying multiple vendors over the last year or so – with an eye to replace both the trusted, untrusted and guest wifi with a consolidated set of hardware. In addition the edge firewall/IDS/IPS running IPfire was due for a replacement. Everything gets old.
I settled on Ubiquiti and their Unifi range. A couple of Unifi-AP-HD Access Points and a Unifi Security Gateway Pro should last a while. Future proofing – with an eye on end-to-end IP6 and fibre to the home – both should easily handle the additional complexity.
I built the Unifi Controller on a dedicated Ubuntu 20.04 server. That was a pain. Notes: MongoDB versions, JRE versions – and installation of the deb package. All too painful.
by ezs | May 4, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – it’s been weeks since I tracked the WA coronavirus numbers – mainly because there are great websites tracking the data, secondarily because the data reporting and metrics were so broken in early/mid-April.
Here’s the current (9 May) numbers from The Seattle Times. Curve of reported cases peaked in early April, about 10 days later for the reported death rate. The baseline is still quite high. I hope the weekend (sunny, warm, lifted restrictions, Mothers’ Day) doesn’t lead to an explosion of new cases in 2 weeks time.
Friday – 75th anniversary of VE Day, muted celebrations in UK. Coronavirus positive tests in White House staff.
Thursday – WA State is slowly opening back up. Traffic is increasing. Almost 15% unemployment rate in the US. Truly staggering.
Wednesday – another long day. Work, calls, lunch, calls, dinner, running Zoom call for the local Dems. Looks like online meetings are going to be a thing throughout the summer at least.
Tuesday – 250k deaths globally. US is arguing around models, lockdown and what next. French re-testing shows a positive COVID-19 test in late December.
Monday – I added the weeks. This is Week 9 of working from home, social distancing and isolation.
The daily routine is pretty similar for the work week; get up, coffee, breakfast, talk to the kids. They do school work (Teams, writing, exam prep) and I work in my office. I run a daily team stand up at 0930 daily which is informal scrum-like: what did you do last, what are you doing today, what do you need help on. Communications is a tad scattered with email, Skype for Business (yes, old), Slack and TFS/ADO comments. I’ve been trying to do informal “tune of the day” in a non-work, social Slack channel for about 8 weeks. Friday afternoon is voluntary team Happy Hour, turn up in Slack with video and a beverage.
I’ve noted that the informal drive-by questions have all turned into 30 minute calls. It’s back-to-back calls most days – so there’s some discipline needed to block out time.
Local and global coverage for future reference.
by ezs | Apr 28, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – 65k dead in the US. With lockdowns being relaxed this is sure to climb again soon.
Friday – more discussion of return to work. Looks like at least half will be “home” and half “office” with strict cohort segregation. This is probably until at least vaccine or herd immunity.
Thursday – blood draw negative. Well – at least I know.
Wednesday – blood draw for the coronavirus antibodies test.
Tuesday – Quick teleconsult with the Doctor to discuss a coronavirus antibodies test. Short version: it’s new, unknown accuracy, no idea if there is immunity from previous exposure. I had coronavirus-like symptoms in early January; we decided it was worth the test. WA State plans limited opening of State Parks and other recreation. Still looking at continued work from home.
Monday – ten hours on the phone. WFH has turned every ad-hoc conversation into a 30 minute call. :\
Reports of COVID related illnesses affecting kids in the UK.
The Guardian and Tom Tom data shows how traffic has decreased. Seattle is dramatic.
Local and global coverage for future reference.
by ezs | Apr 26, 2020 | evilzenscientist
More of a documentation via blog. Here’s the example for PHP7.3 install on SLES 15 SP1
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/php:/php73/SLE_15_SP1/ obs-php73
zypper ref
zypper in php7
For the specific add of the Open Build Service repo for PHP7.3 – there’s some validation, re-installation of uninstalled PHP modules, and re-enabling of php7 in Apache. All scriptable.
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