Doing some cabling in a very conservative church some years ago, it brought me great mirth when I had occasion to ask for a "male to male" adapter

The LTE / 5G folks make me envious with all their IPv6 everywhere, and then sometimes there's SRv6 too, if MPLS isn't exciting enough 😆

"Can we schedule a call to discuss?"
No, I'm emailing because this email can be an email.

I was just about to try setting up AES67 with Pipewire, but now you have me worried

My new coffee grinder arrived this afternoon. If I don't get to sleep as early as I'd like tonight, there may or may not be a causal relationship with that particular event.

That GPU hanging out in the open like that, looks like some RISC-V business (sorry, I'll see myself out)

Calling the dolphin giving the … shower "the urinator" feels like a missed opportunity, when they could have had not only "the micturator" but also "the micturatee"

Unfortunately, the last experience I had with SCSI was years ago, trying to get a library's vintage microfilm scanner working with a "new" Win7 PC; it involved buying a PCIe SCSI adapter on that infamous online auction site. USB to SCSI would have been far easier!

I'll be helping with a comparatively tiny VMware to XCP-ng migration in a few weeks - the main driver being those thoroughly covered price hikes. (The end of VMUG also meant the end of VMware in my home lab, which I replaced with SUSE Harvester)

That sounds like it was a serious unit! This little scanner isn't quite so fancy; it has plain old USB, though I guess that does make it easier to work with in 2025

A Minolta Scan Dual III film scanner ingesting a strip of film

This weekend I broke out the olde Minolta film scanner to digitize some negatives - to my surprise, with a little coaxing (and some third party drivers) the scanning software even works in Windows 11 [inside a VM on Linux]!

This week at work I got to unpack some Nokia DWDM gear for the first ever optical transport project I've gotten to work on. IDK, this might be the most excitement / anticipation I've had unboxing something in quite a while.

Home network SLAs can be brutal!

In "crazy ideas that work surprisingly well," I present: nitro cold brew Bengal Spice herbal tea

I have no idea if it's the same pinout, but I feel like I saw something similarly cursed on a Brocade SLX once.

The Cisco ASR920s that use(d) USB-A to USB-A console cables stand together in solidarity with this unnamed switch 😆

I like having an old laptop or two around to explore lightweight Linux distros, or Haiku, or whatever strikes my fancy. They're a ton of fun!

It's not surprising though, given that we don't write dates in a logical order either.

As a photography nerd, I might have to borrow this idea 😆

If that were enabled, it would likely motivate at least a few folks (e.g. myself) to get off our butts and start learning regex

I'd even settle for just user-upgradable RAM, SSD, and WiFi card, but that's getting less and less common (and don't get me started on Intel proprietary WiFi adapters that are replaceable but not necessarily upgradable)

Whether you're doing some animation or just battling file system clutter in 3D, that's one stylish machine to do the job! - 15/10

Gotta watch out for when Mercury is in Gatorade, you don't want to run low on electrolytes.

Sorry to hear about your HVAC troubles, but that's a great idea! I wish that possibility had occurred to me when mine failed a few years ago.

A screenshot of EVE-NG network emulation software showing a topology map of interconnected virtual routers and hosts

My latest fun: emulating a simple service provider network with MPLS LDP, then trying to migrate it "live" to SR-MPLS. It went a little too smoothly that I fear I missed some crucial step, but the L2 and L3VPNs kept on working, so maybe it really is that easy?

…with jam on the side?

What do you do when you're snowed in but still working from home, and you and your pupper both need a break? Why, take the big camera outside and capture some intense blizzard zoomies, of course!

I feel that with a muchness. After encountering people with $COMMON_VENDOR_CERT who couldn't troubleshoot their way out of a paper bag if you gave them a pair of scissors, well, it seems like passing a test (at least _that_ test) doesn't guarantee being able to think.

Christmas decoration with two male cardinal birds perched on a log in front of branches spelling out the word "Noel"

With both feet now firmly in 2025, I guess it's time to say goodbye to my festive cardinal "roommates" until next winter. Have fun, guys, but please don't get up to too much mischief on the decoration storage shelf!

Aww, looks like a tasty snack (and a great way to trick your pet into flossing their teeth)! 😁