by ezs | Jan 5, 2021 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – More numbers. 46k NHS employees are sick with Covid. 3M cases in the UK, 80k deaths. UK CMO says “restrictions are too lax” – and probably there is a lot of rule bending going on. Washington State planning mass vaccination sites. 20% of England may have had Coronavirus.
New cases in Washington State are relatively flat – but still high. Data as always from The Seattle Times.
Friday – that UK data still going up. US at 4000+ daily deaths for a few days now. That news has been lost in the chaos. London declared a Covid emergency.
In April – shock at 5000+ new cases per day, in November – shock at 20k+ new cases per day. Now 60k+…
Thursday – vast numbers of UK cases, locally vaccination is slow.
Wednesday – rioting and attempted coup. Big news, and moves the pandemic off the front page.
Tuesday – The Guardian tracker now showing percentage in the UK having had at least once vaccination. Almost 61k new cases in the UK. Daily cases trending downwards in Washington State which is good.
Monday – “back to work” and “back to school” with everyone still stuck at home. The first week of the new year – “work week 1” – and the next milestone will be a year of working from home. Vaccines are being slow, England moved to full lockdown again. Vast numbers of new cases in the UK and the US. 350k deaths in the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
https://www.seattletimes.com/tag/coronavirus/
by ezs | Jan 3, 2021 | evilzenscientist
Well – after fixing broken zypper credentials – upgrade from SLES 15 SP2 to SLES 15 SP3 snapshot 5 went quickly. I don’t usually take pre-GA SPs for SLES – but I’m getting bitten with PHP update slowness.
zypper migration
by ezs | Jan 3, 2021 | evilzenscientist
Ran into this again – zyoper losing credentials – and something breaks in the Python dependencies.
/usr/sbin/registercloudguest –force-new
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/sbin/registercloudguest”, line 42, in <module>
import cloudregister.registerutils as utils
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cloudregister/registerutils.py”, line 32, in <module>
from lxml import etree
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/lxml/etree.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: PyFPE_jbuf
Fix is to download the “old” Python library (here for this specific example) – and wedge it in. Then do the usual zypper up.
rpm –force –nodeps libpython3_6m1_0-3.6.10-lp152.3.7.x86_64.rpm
by ezs | Jan 3, 2021 | evilzenscientist
More a personal note. Regular website sizing (normal traffic, fronted with CloudFlare and Azure) compared with active use (voting/ballots and interaction).
The website is all WordPress on LAMP – so RAM and disk writes are key for the voting.
Normal use: B2ms – 2 vCPU, 8GB RAM
Surge use: E16s_v3 – 16 vCPU, 128GB RAM
Planning around this – and it’s a few extra dollars per month.
by ezs | Jan 2, 2021 | evilzenscientist
Successful switch to the updated PHP repo for SLES 15 SP2
zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/php/SLE_15_SP2/ PHP7_SLE_15_SP2
by ezs | Dec 28, 2020 | evilzenscientist
New Year and weekend – entering the New Year with some hope that the multiple vaccines will slow and eventually eradicate the pandemic. All signs from the US are that distribution is being botched.
Weekend numbers from The Seattle Times – cases have decreased (yay!) and deaths seem to have peaked. Hospital beds are >85% utilised which is a big concern.
Thursday – looking back at the first year of Coronavirus: 83M reported, positive cases, 1.8M deaths. That curve isn’t slowing down. Data from JHU
US data shows a more pronounced jump since November. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year…
Wednesday – vaccination is slow in the US.
Tuesday – When the history of Covid and 2020-202? is written, there will be a lot said about how the US responded. Reading today that 40M+ Americans are behind in mortgage, car and credit card payments. Those payments all become due in mid 2021.
Monday – Already writing about 2021 – soon this will be a full year of working from home, school from home. The disruption to normal life has been immense. The loss of life, livelihoods and the elimination of societal norms will be here for a long time. UK, US and around the globe new cases are reaching new peaks. 41,385 new positive cases in the UK, NHS warns of collapse.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
https://www.seattletimes.com/tag/coronavirus/
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