@ptribble.bsky.social
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CHEESE!
We'll have cheese from @rennetandrind.bsky.social to accompany your beer. Choose two from a selection of six to make up your platter, with crackers, butter, and pickle.
Visit our winter beer festival at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, 10-13 December.
We'll have cheese from @rennetandrind.bsky.social to accompany your beer. Choose two from a selection of six to make up your platter, with crackers, butter, and pickle.
Visit our winter beer festival at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, 10-13 December.
December 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
CHEESE!
We'll have cheese from @rennetandrind.bsky.social to accompany your beer. Choose two from a selection of six to make up your platter, with crackers, butter, and pickle.
Visit our winter beer festival at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, 10-13 December.
We'll have cheese from @rennetandrind.bsky.social to accompany your beer. Choose two from a selection of six to make up your platter, with crackers, butter, and pickle.
Visit our winter beer festival at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, 10-13 December.
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Speaking up for bus users at Council meetings
High up the ‘to-do’ list of the Cambridge Area Bus Users Executive Committee is to take steps to bring the needs of bus users to the attention of our local politicians. With this in mind, we have resolved to ask public questions at local council…
High up the ‘to-do’ list of the Cambridge Area Bus Users Executive Committee is to take steps to bring the needs of bus users to the attention of our local politicians. With this in mind, we have resolved to ask public questions at local council…
Speaking up for bus users at Council meetings
High up the ‘to-do’ list of the Cambridge Area Bus Users Executive Committee is to take steps to bring the needs of bus users to the attention of our local politicians. With this in mind, we have resolved to ask public questions at local council meetings when we believe an issue should be brought up the agenda. At the 17th November 2025 meeting of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority’s Transport Committee…
cambridgebususers.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Speaking up for bus users at Council meetings
High up the ‘to-do’ list of the Cambridge Area Bus Users Executive Committee is to take steps to bring the needs of bus users to the attention of our local politicians. With this in mind, we have resolved to ask public questions at local council…
High up the ‘to-do’ list of the Cambridge Area Bus Users Executive Committee is to take steps to bring the needs of bus users to the attention of our local politicians. With this in mind, we have resolved to ask public questions at local council…
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How can buses get a boost across Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire? And why should they?
In our new blog we say that local politicians should back the bus at every turn.
cambstravelalliance.org/boosting-buses-across-cambridge-and-south-cambridgeshire/
In our new blog we say that local politicians should back the bus at every turn.
cambstravelalliance.org/boosting-buses-across-cambridge-and-south-cambridgeshire/
Opinion: Boosting buses across Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire - Cambridgeshire Sustainable Travel Alliance
This article was first published as an opinion piece in the Cambridge Independent on 26 November 2025 (p.29) [paywall] under the title ‘Politicians must be bold and back the bus all the way.’ Although...
cambstravelalliance.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
How can buses get a boost across Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire? And why should they?
In our new blog we say that local politicians should back the bus at every turn.
cambstravelalliance.org/boosting-buses-across-cambridge-and-south-cambridgeshire/
In our new blog we say that local politicians should back the bus at every turn.
cambstravelalliance.org/boosting-buses-across-cambridge-and-south-cambridgeshire/
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NEW BLOGPOST: “The Cambridge Growth Company risks making the same mistake as the GCP on light rail” cambridgetownowl.com/2025/11/27/t... Why on earth would they restrict themselves to 1974-era boundaries and not extend it a short distance to cover nearby market towns?!? 😡
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
NEW BLOGPOST: “The Cambridge Growth Company risks making the same mistake as the GCP on light rail” cambridgetownowl.com/2025/11/27/t... Why on earth would they restrict themselves to 1974-era boundaries and not extend it a short distance to cover nearby market towns?!? 😡
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Tribblix m38 released www.osnews.com/story...
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Tribblix m38 released www.osnews.com/story...
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There's always FreeBSD, Illumos, ... 🌚
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
There's always FreeBSD, Illumos, ... 🌚
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apparently OpenSolaris lives on! As illumos en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos
Illumos - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
apparently OpenSolaris lives on! As illumos en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos
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MSFT and Apple spend billions on building Windows and MacOS! Yet, their OSs are unusable, bloated and uncontrollable freaks!
Long live open-source!
#illumos #opensolaris
Long live open-source!
#illumos #opensolaris
October 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
MSFT and Apple spend billions on building Windows and MacOS! Yet, their OSs are unusable, bloated and uncontrollable freaks!
Long live open-source!
#illumos #opensolaris
Long live open-source!
#illumos #opensolaris
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Of course, this was back in a time when people had actually used Unix.
You can still use Unix, sort of, for nothing. Install an illumos distro. That's should be very, very roughly System V Release 4.
You can still use Unix, sort of, for nothing. Install an illumos distro. That's should be very, very roughly System V Release 4.
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Of course, this was back in a time when people had actually used Unix.
You can still use Unix, sort of, for nothing. Install an illumos distro. That's should be very, very roughly System V Release 4.
You can still use Unix, sort of, for nothing. Install an illumos distro. That's should be very, very roughly System V Release 4.
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Not to mention the fact that it’s Linux that usually borrows from innovations that the BSD and Solaris & Illumos communities created, for decades, not the other way around.
October 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Not to mention the fact that it’s Linux that usually borrows from innovations that the BSD and Solaris & Illumos communities created, for decades, not the other way around.
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I might have a fascination with retro OSes like Tribblix, *BSD, or AIX. I might put vim-like keybindings on everything. I might be enthralled by programming for COM+, AWT, and straight x86 assembly. I might use a tiling WM.
But let’s clear one thing up: I will never, EVER switch to Dvorak. Ever.
But let’s clear one thing up: I will never, EVER switch to Dvorak. Ever.
September 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I might have a fascination with retro OSes like Tribblix, *BSD, or AIX. I might put vim-like keybindings on everything. I might be enthralled by programming for COM+, AWT, and straight x86 assembly. I might use a tiling WM.
But let’s clear one thing up: I will never, EVER switch to Dvorak. Ever.
But let’s clear one thing up: I will never, EVER switch to Dvorak. Ever.
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NEW BLOGPOST: “If the Transport Secretary won’t fund essential upgrades, then the Chancellor must give regional tiers new revenue-raising powers” cambridgetownowl.com/2025/07/08/i...
If the Transport Secretary won’t fund essential upgrades, then the Chancellor must give regional tiers new revenue-raising powers
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander MP once again refrained from even mentioning Ely Junction in her statement to the Commons. Furthermore there is nothing in the press release about this heavily-l…
cambridgetownowl.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
NEW BLOGPOST: “If the Transport Secretary won’t fund essential upgrades, then the Chancellor must give regional tiers new revenue-raising powers” cambridgetownowl.com/2025/07/08/i...
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NEW BLOGPOST: "If the Transport Secretary won’t fund essential upgrades, then the Chancellor must give regional tiers new revenue-raising powers" cambridgetownowl.com/2025/07/08/i...
If the Transport Secretary won’t fund essential upgrades, then the Chancellor must give regional tiers new revenue-raising powers
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander MP once again refrained from even mentioning Ely Junction in her statement to the Commons. Furthermore there is nothing in the press release about this heavily-l…
cambridgetownowl.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
NEW BLOGPOST: "If the Transport Secretary won’t fund essential upgrades, then the Chancellor must give regional tiers new revenue-raising powers" cambridgetownowl.com/2025/07/08/i...
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Was at Cambridge Carbon Footprint’s retrofit pilot hearing about installing rainwater harvesting systems in Coleridge, Cambridge earlier.
July 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Was at Cambridge Carbon Footprint’s retrofit pilot hearing about installing rainwater harvesting systems in Coleridge, Cambridge earlier.
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A recent report showed that drivers in Cambridge lose an average of 52 hours to congestion each year.
Vote for local election candidates on 1 May who will save time and cut queues through better sustainable transport.
cambstravelalliance.org/vote/
Vote for local election candidates on 1 May who will save time and cut queues through better sustainable transport.
cambstravelalliance.org/vote/
April 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A recent report showed that drivers in Cambridge lose an average of 52 hours to congestion each year.
Vote for local election candidates on 1 May who will save time and cut queues through better sustainable transport.
cambstravelalliance.org/vote/
Vote for local election candidates on 1 May who will save time and cut queues through better sustainable transport.
cambstravelalliance.org/vote/
I helped write a new post for Transition Cambridge.
The environmental cost of AI:
transitioncambridgemedia.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...
The environmental cost of AI:
transitioncambridgemedia.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...
The Environmental Cost of AI
With the UK Government's recent announcement about investing heavily in AI, it's appropriate to ask: what is the environmental footprint of ...
transitioncambridgemedia.blogspot.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I helped write a new post for Transition Cambridge.
The environmental cost of AI:
transitioncambridgemedia.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...
The environmental cost of AI:
transitioncambridgemedia.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...
March 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Yes, it’s an area that I have earmarked for a deep dive one day. Oxide using it for their hypervisor and the people associated with the illumos / Solaris sphere signal to me that it absolutely should not be written off.
February 14, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Yes, it’s an area that I have earmarked for a deep dive one day. Oxide using it for their hypervisor and the people associated with the illumos / Solaris sphere signal to me that it absolutely should not be written off.
February 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
So if anyone's interested in having a look at the First Release Candidate of JDK24 on Solaris 11.4 (x86), here you go:
pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/inte...
(If on illumos, use distro packages.)
pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/inte...
(If on illumos, use distro packages.)
Solaris 11 Intel/x86 jdk builds
pkgs.tribblix.org
February 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
So if anyone's interested in having a look at the First Release Candidate of JDK24 on Solaris 11.4 (x86), here you go:
pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/inte...
(If on illumos, use distro packages.)
pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/inte...
(If on illumos, use distro packages.)
One of the plans for OpenJDK is to deprecate and remove the 32-bit x86 port.
openjdk.org/jeps/501
It turns out that OpenJDK on illumos/Solaris still has remnants. None of this has worked or been compiled in so long (8u20), I'm going to completely strip any 32-bit code out of my Solaris port.
openjdk.org/jeps/501
It turns out that OpenJDK on illumos/Solaris still has remnants. None of this has worked or been compiled in so long (8u20), I'm going to completely strip any 32-bit code out of my Solaris port.
openjdk.org
February 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
One of the plans for OpenJDK is to deprecate and remove the 32-bit x86 port.
openjdk.org/jeps/501
It turns out that OpenJDK on illumos/Solaris still has remnants. None of this has worked or been compiled in so long (8u20), I'm going to completely strip any 32-bit code out of my Solaris port.
openjdk.org/jeps/501
It turns out that OpenJDK on illumos/Solaris still has remnants. None of this has worked or been compiled in so long (8u20), I'm going to completely strip any 32-bit code out of my Solaris port.