Slow train to nowhere

Reading about the excitement in Sydney over the canning of the NW Metro plans, I can’t help but think “welcome to Melbourne guys!”.

We have a similar public transport problem here with chronic underinvestment over the past 50-odd years, huge tracts of low-density housing development in the outer suburbs with little or no public transport, and what we do have is slow, crowded, and unreliable.

It’s not a Labor thing here, at least, because the Liberals failed just as dismally at investing in public transport when they were running the shop.

It seems that WA is the only state that takes metro transport seriously, and who knows where that’s going to go with the Liberals in power now?

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Tags: Politics by matt
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Amusement: Linux patching


realos# zfs snapshot zones/bashful@prepatch
realos# zlogin bashful
bashful# yum update
[... waah, patches stuffed it up! ...]
bashful# exit
realos# zoneadm -z bashful halt
realos# zfs rollback zones/bashful@prepatch
realos# zoneadm -z bashful boot
[... yay! ...]

On the downside, it’s pretty ancient CentOS as Sun’s Linux kernel emulation is 2.4.x. But it’s still cool and means not having to install native Linux (or, gods protect us, Windows) to run NetApp DFM on that pretty! shiny! massively overspecced! x64 box.

Popularity: 30% [?]

Tags: Linux, Solaris, inflammatory by matt
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