Been awhile since I’ve had this out, came across it when looking for something else and figured I’d play with it a bit. Sure is very cute but very very slow, as I remember it being.
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mastodon 4.7.3caretaker of trains and photonic networks, maker of blinky things, student of libraries.
also enthusiast of film photography, braille, connectors, and smol discs. cannot weave. meow!
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oops. As I was laying out this board I went “wow I sure picked an overly-fine pitch part for this buck regulator, weird!” but continued with layout anyways. I did not in fact choose a part with that fine a pitch.
My new-to-me Braille display (which I will post more about soon, I am very excited about it) has maybe the most satisfying charging animation of any device I’ve used. It feels very pleasant and makes a nice noise. #braille
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@plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca I wish I could buy one with a more modern CPU, because they're super neat little machines! :) I used this one for field troubleshooting in dirty/dusty environments for awhile before it got replaced with a ToughBook.
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange I still remember this resistor-ordering mistake several years ago lol. I don't think this meets IPC specifications...
I visited 6 different local datacentres today and said hi to a bunch of equipment I’m responsible for but that I had never seen in person. It was so much fun.
Hah, I hit print screen on a scope at the makerspace that I’m just learning to use (it’s older but 1GHz), then went “oh wait, I bet it’ll want a floppy for that”. But then something on it started whirring. Took me a second to realize the whirring was it doing what I’d asked, and this came out of a slot on the top!
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@bonkers@nerdculture.de @never_released@mastodon.social I worked at an Itanium shop for awhile in the late 00s/early 2010s. Someday I want to get one for home to play with, but I don’t think I’ve seen any since I left that job in 2012!
One of the weirder sets of adapter cables I’ve needed, I think.
The plywood for Franklin’s new shell came in while I was travelling for work, so started working on cutting it all to size today! Got two replacement roof panels, a replacement rear panel, and four window frames/mounts all traced and cut out. I don’t often do much woodworking at the shop, it’s fun once in awhile.
Next week my goal is to get the new front pieces cut and make a list of all the nuts/bolts/washers we need. #choochoo
I don't understand harassing other people for wearing a mask. It affects you not-at-all, I'm just walking down the street. The sky is currently orange and it looks foggy there's so much smoke, I've had asthma kill two friends and I am doing my best to not join them.
Getting some proper network monitoring up again. Making sure all the most important services are monitored :)
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca 33-34 years of Linux here, installed a BSD box into my "production" (for senCloud anyways) network for the first time a few days ago. Loving it so far, feels like Linux used to (in a good way).
Oracle messing up the LHC today.
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(also: oof, even used Braille displays are always so expensive)
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@webhat@infosec.exchange @gsuberland@chaos.social If you mean "they" being the connector, that is true. If you mean _I_ am onboard, you are, sadly, incorrect :)
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oof, USD$600 (over CAD$800) in the end. Yeah, computers-in-a-computer are one of my favourite things, but these are definitely out of reach now.
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@WTL@mastodon.social direct connection between USB-C and the audio input ports on my hearing aids :) I’d usually use Bluetooth via a protocol converter box, but I have some long-ish flights coming up and the converter box’s battery only lasts 3-4h these days, so want to be able to do a cabled connection instead. That port is usually used for these little RF receivers which let me connect remote microphones up, but once in awhile direct audio input is handy.
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@xan @azonenberg haha this is excellent and even more Fictional Business than my fictional telco http://spotty.tel :D
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(I do still miss the growly sound of the JT8D at takeoff power https://youtu.be/-GbCR5npuTI)
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@waffles I mentioned missing the 'old internet' sometimes to someone recently and they said "me too! flash games, kazaa and limewire, AIM..." It was at that point that I realized that their "old internet" is my "middle internet" :) Though if anything, old and middle have a lot more in common than middle and modern do.
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@xan I think the last bit of X.25 gear I worked on was decommissioned in the mid-2000s, but it seemed like a Telco Thing to include something long past EOL as a reliable modern choice on their website :)
I've never used AX.25 so far, but I'd like to someday! So much radio to do, so little time.
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@s0@cathode.church haha that’s true! I brought someone with me too for the adventure which makes it feel even pub-crawlier.
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@WTL@mastodon.social I’m actually curious where these connectors come from, they’re so weird and I’ve never seen them on anything other than hearing aid stuff. They feel very 1970s to me, but I’ve never found a history of them.
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@f4grx@chaos.social @adorfer@chaos.social @gsuberland@chaos.social it looks like they’re not what you might think when you hear “quadrax”, rather a lighter alternative to twisted pair with four wires inside a shield. https://www.gore.com/products/quad-cables-aerospace-defense-air-land I suspect this connector has two redundant gigabit Ethernet paths on it, since the vehicle it’s on is TTEthernet-based.
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Found a price for the equivalent connector from another company (slightly different design but still 4x quadrax connectors in a vaguely D-ish shell), CAD$1850 each in qty 25.
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@whitequark I haven't run anything go-wise on Haiku, looks like it does exist but 1.18 is the latest ported one currently.
I have returned to civilization after my annual week as a summer camp baker. It’ll take me a bit to catch up on everything!
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@isabel@chaos.social I love that these photos look like half modern stuff and half stuff that if the photo was black and white and had nothing for scale, you could think it was some giant high energy physics lab from 1940.
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange You are better at rework than I am, I suspect. This is also my first assembly at the makerspace since I joined, so I'm getting used to a bunch of new tools (and RoHS).
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@RealGene@hachyderm.io aaaa that's it thank you so much! It even says they're available in 4x quadrax so that's the one. How did you ever find that?
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange this bench also has an HP 3455A voltmeter on it which I love, someday I want to get them both connected to a GPIB network :)
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@mWare@ottawa.place I've used it as an end-user at work in a couple places, but I've always been a Nagios person for personal infrastructure. Since I'm starting over though, figured I'd try Zabbix and so far I'm mostly liking it.
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@gizmomathboy@mastodon.xyz @mhoye@cosocial.ca yep, I’ve been involved with Solaris to Linux, AIX to Linux, and HP-UX to Linux projects over the years. This might be the first time I’ve worked on porting things the other way.
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange for now it's "inject 5V via the test point instead" time :) but I'll rework it before I spin rev2 just to be sure there's no issue in the power circuitry.
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@whitequark I use Haiku regularly but don’t know much about CI. If I can be of assistance given that combination, I’m happy to be :)