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Steam, Valve’s content delivery network, games marketplace and cloud savefile storage system, among other things has supported having multiple install locations for your games library. As SSDs become more and more prevalent and cheaper, many people are looking to install their stuff on the much faster SSD. To create a new installation location for *future* installs – this article doesn’t cover moving your existing Steam library – simply open your Steam settings, hit the “Downloads” tab and click “Steam Library Folders” ...

Just what I need for the afternoon! Kite String Tangle!

This remix of Cavalier is very nicely arranged and unlike a lot of others doesn’t try to completely re-do the track..

I took apart an old, old 10GB IDE laptop hard disk. Pretty!

Apologies for those affected (like three of you, probably) by the 2-3 hour outage. This was caused by a WordPress upgrade which crashed the PHP process. Obviously I monitor the site closely and fixed it immediately three hours later when I noticed.

A friend of mine created a “street harassment form” to print out and hand to people who catcall/yell at you/objectify you in the street. Presented without further comment. ![]

Last month, London Fire Spinners performed for the #TheMovement global launch party at ZSL London Zoo. It was a lot of fun for all concerned and we had a great time. I took some photos, so here they are!

Found this gem yesterday in the midst of a mix. It’s great.

I’ve been hunting for this song for the best part of a year. Imagine my delight at having found it, at last!

I’ve not the time right now to write more in the Logstash series, but as a quick interlude, I’d like to link to my ever-expanding Gist containing some useful Logstash GROK patterns for Postfix and Sendmail. Good, comprehensive sets of these are a bit of a slog to find online, so I cobbled together some from posts on the Internets, GitHub Gists and some tweaks of my own to make them work. ...

In my previous post, I outlined how I manage the collection of logs across our infrastructure at a high level with Logstash and Elasticsearch. I also touched upon viewing and searching through the data with Kibana, a Javascript frontend. In this post, I want to cover an important interim step if using the packages in the ElasticSearch repos is unfeasible or if you are running legacy servers that the repos don’t provide packages for. ...

Hello, I’m a sysadmin. I manage servers for a living. About a hundred of them, at last count. One of the biggest challenges in my job is keeping tabs on what’s going on inside my infrastructure. Was the last email sent to dave.mcUserface@example.org delivered? What’s the busiest nginx host in the network? Which vhost gets the most traffic? What was the average load across the entire infrastructure at 04:53, three days ago? ...

I’m still getting the hang of shooting with my reversed-lens setup without a tripod. The great thing is that suddenly a lawn becomes incredibly interesting once you can get down to that level of detail.

I’ve been looking to practice more calligraphy of late, so I’ve been on the lookout for short passages to transcribe. Here’s one. Original credit for the text goes to Eric Tortora Pato

Because all girls are drama-prone harpies. Everyone knows this. sigh