Month: April 2018
DNS over HTTPS, Internet vanity-plate IP addresses
Yesterday CloudFlare announced their open DNS recursive resolver. Many of you will have heard of Google’s free DNS (8.8.8.8), and also are aware that there are others like OpenDNS etc (but ironically would have to Google its IP!). Well, joining the fray is CloudFlare with an IP of 1.1.1.1 (and 1.0.0.1). And CloudFlare has an…
Running a GPU-accelerated application in an LXD container
OK so I updated my desktop to 18.04 about a month ago (its coming in to release date). And one of the apps that I use that is a bit crusty is OpenSCAD. One option is to run it in a snap (https://github.com/plars/openscad-snap). Yeah, that sort of worked, but I had a mystery problem where…
The case of the missing pyrex stopper: 3D printing to the rescue
We have these Pyrex bowls with lids with a stopper. And, the stoppers seem to migrate. Or escape. Or hang out with the dryer socks, who knows. The net effect is there are more lids than stoppers. And over time, this gets to be an expensive and wasteful proposition, buying new bowls (and their lids),…
