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Monthly Archive for November, 2024

Years behind schedule I finally got around to replacing ISC DHCP with Kea DHCP so I could finally have proper IPv6 host reservations. What I just learned, and should have learned years ago, that several of my motherboards such as the Supermicro A1SAi and Intel NUC while they support UEFI PXE booting, they do not […]

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Vintage dial-up modem teardowns

[photos: flickr – Vintage dial-up modem teardowns] [photos: flickr – Analog telephone adapters] For several months I’ve been buying old popular models of dial-up modems from the 1990s to test how they fare over VoIP connections along with different analog telephone adapters. To my great annoyance maybe a quarter of them didn’t include an AC […]

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Petcube Bites 2.0 teardown

This is my second Petcube Bites and after a few years of operation it stopped dispensing treats. Treats started getting jammed between the rotating loader head thingy and the slot loading to the launcher chute and I’d have to empty it out and pick out the offending treat, only to have it jam the next […]

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