by ezs | Apr 13, 2019 | evilzenscientist
During early 2019 I started researching my family tree.
This post is a series of ongoing notes and updates on various tools, websites and resources I have found useful.
Subscription sites
https://findmypast.co.uk
https://ancestry.co.uk
(UK subscriptions) Useful to cross reference the two different transcriptions for the same events. Typos and interpretations are different. Also Ancestry has a different range of records to Find My Past.
1939 Register is incredibly useful for tracking the locations of 20th Century people – and has mostly accurate dates of birth. Also great for tracking forward looking marriages (changes in unmarried name) and even ending location post marriage in some cases based on NHS location codes.
England Registration Districts mapping (1850 is not 2019!)
https://www.familysearch.org/mapp/
Notes: To understand the historical boundaries between e.g. Essex, Middlesex and the overlay of Registration Districts.
by ezs | Nov 17, 2018 | evilzenscientist
A quick morning updating the Minecraft server that’s there for private play for the boy.
Ubuntu updates on Azure are actually painless. Minecraft jar update took a few moments.
Happy, patched and back to letting the boy play with his friends.
There are some cool Minecraft 1.13 world seeds here btw https://mine.guide/tutorials/best-seeds-for-minecraft-1-13/
by ezs | Jan 1, 2018 | evilzenscientist
A work in progress. Some notes.
- Certbot does not run on SLES 12 (GA, SPx)
- Dehydrated script works well
- Documentation is patchy
So far:
Dehydrated, install RPM from http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/oss/suse/noarch/dehydrated-0.4.0-1.1.noarch.rpm
To document:
- How, what, when
- Setting up cron for renewal
- Email for renewals
- Logging
Resources:
Dehydrated: a bash client for Let’s Encrypt
by ezs | Dec 28, 2017 | evilzenscientist, Linux, patching
I’ve been bitten multiple times with the SLES service pack upgrade routine – with Red Carpet Enterprise (ouch – that’s a long time ago) and all of the various permutations of update tooling since.
Happy to say that SLES 12 SP1 to SLES 12 SP3 was zero fuss, fast and efficient. Less than five minutes per server on Azure and around 30 seconds of planned outage.
Good job SUSE team!
by ezs | Jul 21, 2017 | evilzenscientist
Woke up to a whole pile of uptime alarms flagging that various websites were not “up” and responding. Azure, Jetpack, Cloudflare – something was clearly wrong.
As you can see from the Apache access logs – hundreds of thousands of hits per minute from the same IP address range – 185.188.204.x
Easy fix to create a deny rule in Azure to block this. I don’t think CloudFlare was touching it.
by ezs | Apr 19, 2017 | evilzenscientist
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Watching the logs for this now.
AH00060: seg fault or similar nasty error detected in the parent process
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