Mike Meredith

Sep 092017
 

Reprocessing some old photos

#1: Just Another Doorway

Just Another Doorway

If you don’t recognise it, that is one of the entrances to Sagradia Familia.

#2: Sagradia Colours

Sagradia Colours

#3: Park Güell Tourist Swam

 

Park Güell Tourist Swarm

#4: Tunnel To Old Town

Tunnel To The Old Town

Sep 092017
 

I recently switched from Ubuntu to Fedora Core for a variety of reasons :-

  • For a later version of fwupd as I had some vulnerable wireless mice to update.
  • To have a look at what Wayland was like (mostly invisible although oddball Window Managers still only talk to X).
  • To have a look at what it’s like after all these years; RedHat was one of the early distributions I ran.

All is reasonable except for one thing. The software updates.

What is this obsession with restarting to perform software updates? Is the relevant developer a refugee from Windows?

Now don’t get me wrong; a restart is the most effective simple way to ensure that outdated versions are not in use, but restarting every time you perform an update seems excessive.

  • If you need to update the kernel for security reasons, a restart is reasonable if you don’t have “live upgrades” but Fedora Core comes with a kernel that has that feature.
  • If you have a security update to a long-running process (such as Wayland or X), then you need to restart that process. In some cases you can restart a long-running process without notice; in others you will have to be disruptive, or ask someone to quit the long-running process.
  • If it isn’t a security update, you can simply wait until the user restarts the process.

Overall, the update process need not be as disruptive as Fedora Core makes it. It is of course not the end of the world to force a reboot, but it is hardly a very graceful process and some (including me) will find it annoying enough to avoid Fedora Core.

Post Interference

Sep 072017
 

I have been hard at work fixing all of the broken Photography posts on this blog – specifically fixing all the broken images. Go back far enough, and you may well come across photos you have not seen before.

As a bonus, I have also uploaded all the images to Eyeem where you can see all the images on one page without any annoying words.

Walking The Beach