Author: tom

Amusing mistakes in CVs I’ve reviewed, #1

As I’ve mentioned before, I end up reviewing a lot of CVs (resumes) as part of my day job. Sometimes

After a recent update to a VPS server I have running Ubuntu 16.04, I found that sshd was not starting

At present, since we have a number of job openings for software engineers and technical leads at work, I’m spending

This is pretty simple, but it’s one of those things I find myself needing every so often and not being

Setting up Postfix to use IPv6 was a little tricky. Obviously I needed to configure my DNS servers to have

Setting up Bind to provide DNS over IPv6 was fairly straightforward. In fact it was on by default: listen-on-v6 {

After discovering that my work PC has a fully working IPv6 internet connection (and therefore giving me the ability to

At work today someone asked me what our IP address was (so they could whitelist our access to some server

At work we hit a bug that resulted in the following behaviour: We set the system time on our embedded

It’s been a long time since I’ve had a blog, but several times lately I’ve found myself thinking that sharing