I'm happily using (after all this time!) the Acer Nitro 5 [AN5] with Ubuntu 20.04 and the power saving script [PSS]. Unfortunately, when using the lowest power mode, the Ethernet interface won't get an IP any more. The Ethernet interface wakes up with a simple command: sudo ip link set enp7s0 up Resources [AN5] Ubuntu … Continue reading Reactivate Linux network interface after standby
Author: George Georgovassilis
Technical debt ratio
Technical Debt [TD] concluded that "Technical debt is the amount of work needed to decrease the total cost of a product", which establishes a qualitative link between effort spent now and effort spent later. That link can be expressed quantitatively across projects of different sizes as the Technical Debt Ratio (TDR). The Technical Debt Ratio … Continue reading Technical debt ratio
azapi: unsupported attribute
One of my Azure Terraform deployments recently started failing with "unsupported attribute". The deployment involves container app environments which aren't currently supported by azurerm, so I'm working around that with azapi [AZAPI]. The template references an attribute ("staticIp" for the interested reader) in the resource creation JSON output. The deployment started breaking in early January … Continue reading azapi: unsupported attribute
could not get netmask from lease
I'm sitting in a hotel lobby and the Ubuntu Acer Nitro 5 won't connect to the hotel wifi, although my android phone connected fine. According to syslog "could not get netmask from lease". This post isn't a fix, just an ugly workaround. This "lease" message points the unacquainted me towards a DHCP issue, which is … Continue reading could not get netmask from lease
The triangle of the value-creation industry
A project is an activity, limited in time and scope, which transforms an organisation from an initial state into a target state. The project management triangle [1] correlates cost, time, scope and quality of a project and emphasizes that project management choices regarding these factors affect results. All interpretations of the project management triangle I'm … Continue reading The triangle of the value-creation industry
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