Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 8th, 2026
I have been forever annoyed in Mediawiki for having to look up the subtle differences in formatting markup, especially after writing Markdown for a while. That “Editing help” at the bottom of a Mediawiki edit page takes you to a whole editor help page and buried in the middle is “Help:Formatting” that I really want. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 1st, 2026
PLUGINS_CONFIG = { ‘netbox_napalm_plugin’: { ‘NAPALM_USERNAME’: ‘napalm’, ‘NAPALM_PASSWORD’: ‘secretsquirrels’, ‘NAPALM_ARGS’: { ‘optional_args’: { # This is used globally for all napalm connections ‘key_file’: ‘/home/netbox/.ssh/id_ed25519-napalm’, ‘use_keys’: True, ‘allow_agent’: False, }, }, }, } I finally got around to playing with NAPALM integration in Netbox more. I’ve been bothered by the fact that it’s assumed you’ll configure […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2026
At last I finally got my hands on another modem I had as a teenager, a Wang 9648/24e. It’s an external 9600/4800 bps fax and V.22bis 2400 bps data modem. I’m not exactly sure why I bought this back then, because I already had a internal 2400 bps modem I got with a free Prodigy […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2026
I finally got around to upgrading my VPS hosting my public website over to CentOS 10 Stream, CentOS 7 was starting to get long in the tooth. At some point Linode apparently bumped up the storage included in my plan from 50 GB to 80 GB without me knowing it, so it’s nice to start […]
Posted in troubleshooting, Uncategorized, vintage on May 6th, 2026
I’ve had an Adtran Total Access 908e (TA908e) VoIP/voice gateway for over a year now with the intent of replacing my collection of Cisco ATA and Grandstream ATA for the BBS and other modem stuff. Allegedly it does a better job at VoIP processing and gives me better line density, but first I need a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2026
I haven’t ranted about the 328 skid steer I also inherited from dad. On the surface this thing should be great for clearing brush, fencerows, moving stuff around; it has a heater, A/C, roll-up cab. We have several shear and grapple attachments for just that. This thing has been a giant, multi-year pain in my […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2026
My last trip to Oklahoma was a mild disaster. Nothing going right, skid steer still not fixed after $4700 at the shop, multiple 2+ hour trips fetching parts, aggravating oil and filter changes, and more house plumbing issues. But at least I got the IH 484 tractor up and running again. Between this tractor with […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2026
I have several Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 out in the field running Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS/Debian 9/12/13, and like everything else have Chef running on them. These are 32-bit armv7l and 64-bit aarch64 platforms and installers normally aren’t built for them, so you gotta do it yourself. I’m not a fan of just spewing files […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 1st, 2026
I’ve been working my way through fixing up vintage computers and software, so why not get a vintage tractor running? TL;DR: good news: tractor runs, bad news, a lot of bad things [photos: flickr – IH 484 tractor] We inherited this 1979 International 484 from dad and it’s sat here a few years now. I […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 28th, 2025
I haven’t posted in a while, but the big news I finally cancelled my cable TV service after 20 something years! Thanks to Comcast’s infinite money grabbing ways, they would happily let me stay on a data plan with usage caps forever until I “upgraded” to a new unlimited plan, which finally prompted me to […]
