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Five Great Meals in Sydney

If you’ve got a week or so in Sydney, here’s a list of nine restaurants where you can have great meals and get a glimpse of the delicious dining you can get in the harbour city in 2023.

 

 

But you’ll need to plan and book ahead of time:

  1. Saint Peter – benchmark seafood redefining fish dishes
  2. Firedoor – 3 hat dining featuring Australian produce cooked over fire
  3. Pellegrino 2000 – neighbourhood Italian restaurant serving classic dishes
  4. Mr Wong – Benchmark Chinese restaurant featuring Cantonese dishes
  5. Ester – inventive cooking over coals
  6. Raita Noda Chef’s Kitchen – 6-seater modern Japanese restaurant
  7. Gildas – sister “tapas-style” restaurant of Firedoor
  8. Izakaya Tempura Kuon – tempura focused smart Japanese diner in the city
  9. Gou Sushi – good value neighbourhood Japanese restaurant near Central station

 

The Apple Newton Story

In 1993, I started a company that was the first in the world to ship a 3rd party software product for the Apple Newton. It was available on a floppy disk, or you could order it over email and it would be sent electronically. Decades before an “App Store”

Choosing a compatible NVME SSD for Apple Mac computers

Expanding the storage for your Mac with a DIY external drive with NVME SSD isn’t simple.  To get maximum speed from modern Macs with Thunderbolt ports mean getting a Thunderbolt enclosure. These are the ones that seem to play well with Macs: ACASIS model TBU405 and Orico model M234C3. Here’s a table showing which chipsets are the fastest for these enclosures: dancharblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/list-of-ssd-enclosure-chipsets-2022

These NVME models have the least reports of issues: Western Digital Black SN850X and SN850 and Most Western Digital drives.

And Samsung drives 970 and 980 series are the ones to avoid because of compatibility issues with the TRIM command of macOS Monterey and newer versions. The incompatibility causes very long mount times of five plus minutes after the drive has been used for awhile.

It’s surprising that this information isn’t more widely known, but it’s probably because DIY External SSDs are not that widely used.

With a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure you should attain the speeds shown in the image below with a modern MacBook Pro

Antinori Tenuta Tignanello ‘Solaia’ 1978

The first vintage of this benchmark wine. Unearthed a case of 6 of this in a Swiss garage in 2019. Three of the bottles were gone. But 3 were OK. 2 bottles in perfect condition. 3rd one showed a little leakage around cork and a little bit of oxidation, but wine still held up. The 2 perfect bottles showed excellent tannins and structure still. Dark fruits and loads of complexity. Could go for a few more years if the cork was in better condition. 41 years old and still full of life. Quite amazing really.

DigitalOcean Droplets aren’t configured with swap

Public service announcement – if your droplets are crashing mysteriously, check to see if it’s running out of memory and if adding swap space will fix your problem. This is what was in the /var/log/syslog file:

kernel: [62413.467900] Out of memory: Killed process 12910 (mysqld)...status=9/KILL

Sample instructions here if you’re running Ubuntu. This fixed my mysql problem which was causing random crashes several times a day.