Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2024
The pandemic, work from home, and layoffs have put a damper on my driving. I would easily put 15-20k miles a year on the truck, in Feburary 2022 I hit 380,000 miles, and I just rolled 389,000 miles, so 9k in 2 years. I figured I’d pass 400,000 by now. I also now have my […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 9th, 2023
I guess sometimes you have to challenge your assumptions and just try things. For years and years at home and and in Oklahoma I have been running Hurricane Electric’s Tunnelbroker tunnels to get IPv6 to my networks. At the time when I set them up, everything said the 6in4 tunnel (specifically IP protocol 41) wouldn’t […]
Posted in Uncategorized, vintage on Nov 16th, 2023
This year’s project has been running a vintage DOS-based bulletin board system like I use to run in 1995 before I started my ISP. I’m running Wildcat! 4.20 Multiline 10, the same as I did back then, except now under Windows 7 32-bit instead of Windows 95. It has real US Robotics Courier modems that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 4th, 2023
Vandenberg Space Force Base (f/k/a Vandenberg Air Force Base) in southern California is where most west coast rocket and missile launch activity happens, dating all the way back to the 1950s. Lately people may know of it as where SpaceX launches payloads on Falcon 9 and ULA launches Atlas and Delta rockets. It’s also […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2023
If you’re like me and care about IPv6 and want an analog telephone adapter for your BBS, you want a Cisco ATA 191/192 instead of a Cisco SPA 121/122. I forget why I bought the SPA 122 after I bought an ATA 191 and needed more ports, I guess to compare them or the 122 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2023
I’ve long had a /48 from Hurricane Electric (HE)/Tunnelbroker for my IPv6 connectivity for servers I run at home and for general end-user purposes. I’ve also had Xfinity for years which has native IPv6, but never have used it for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I assume it’s a dynamically allocated prefix subject to change […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2023
About once a year I get the itch to work on family genealogy of the Wann/Cox/Christy families, especially when I’d go back home over the holidays and have access to old photographs. I guess it appeals to my need to review and organize data, and to keep track of who is who. It’s mostly casual […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2022
I’ve long been vaccinated and boosted, but finally caught COVID just in time for Thanksgiving. I wonder how many people it’s been through between the bat and/or escaping the lab in Wuhan and my lungs. By most accounts I’ve had a mild case, but it’s the most miserable sickness I’ve ever had. My memory of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 13th, 2022
I think the actual birthday is in a few weeks but I’ll forget by then. I started building ikeacluster in 2012 as a home lab project, I wanted something nearly silent, low wattage, and real hardware. Motherboards and hard drives have come and gone, and had one switch die. I don’t tinker with it as […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2022
TL;DR Apple + eGPU + 27″ Thunderbolt display probably needs a dummy HDMI dongle in the GPU and performance sucks. Early in the pandemic I got hooked on Minecraft. My daily driver is a MacBook laptop which doesn’t have a lot of graphical horsepower for fancy shaders. A friend suggested using an eGPU, so I […]
