Cool and clear, still not what I’d call “dry” but not drippy either. At least after the sun comes up and dries up the dew. Really nice yesterday. Really nice. I’m hoping for a few more days like that, starting with today!
Seems like I can make all the plans in the world, and something comes up to monkey wrench them. Like yesterday. I had plans. But my main ethernet switch was NFG when I woke up. The cameras, PCs, various game consoles, and other things are all on that switch. There are other switches, but this one is main…
Percussive maintenance didn’t work. Pulling its tail didn’t work. The only thing left was to replace the device. It’s an enterasys enterprise class 48 port GigE switch with PoE on every port. Quite a large switch fabric, if I’ve got the terminology correct. No longer top o the line, and available cheap on ebay, but I’ve got a pallet of them somewhere… I thought I had a couple in my ham sale stacks, but couldn’t find them. Thought I had a similar HP switch in the stacks but couldn’t find it. So I ended up going to my secondary location and digging one out of the pile o stuff… Which meant dealing with an ant infestation. And towering stacks of stuff. All in all, I spent a couple of hours moving stuff, digging through the piles, and killing ants.
I’m down to a couple of 48 port switches. I’ve got a couple dozen of the 24 port version, so if I have to I’ll just use two next time. In any case, by the time I got everything back together, and headed home, I had only enough time to grab a quick pickup that was on the way. Then it was Opening Night at the middle school auditorium.
The actors did a great job, D2 did a great job on crew, and my sound crew did a great job with wireless mics, playback, and mixing the show. My FOH mixer trusted me and held to my intentions despite heavy pressure from other kids and other people. I’m really proud of him. And it worked. The show looked and sounded good, great even, if compared to previous shows. It’s a good foundation to build from for the next show, and the next couple of years. Once this show is done, I’ll work with the district support guy and do some fixes, changes, and improvements before the next show. It’s what my wife did a couple of years ago with the lighting system, and that paid dividends for the kids and school too.
Community engagement doesn’t have to be with a neighborhood mutual defense league, or a home canning group, or the people at the farmer’s market. It can be whatever you want to do, in whatever way you can contribute. It’s all meatspace baby, and I believe it will be worth doing.
Lone wolf is not a viable path.
So stack some volunteer hours, stack some new acquaintances, share a skill, you’ll feel good about the result.
nick
Use a bigger hammer?
I keep thinking that I need to re-work our infrastructure. Just for example, we have two really ancient servers doing various things one NAS (15-20 years old), one NUC (ca. 10 years old) running services like PiHole and OwnCloud). I really need to combine those onto a single, modern box. I just haven’t found the right box. It would mostly be bored, so I want something low-power and silent. At the same time, when the services do ramp up, it needs to have a decent processor and a fair amount of memory. Small/low-power vs. decent processor/memory – that’s a hard combination to find.
I’m vaguely hoping I’ll see something irresistible on Cyber Monday, which has made its way to Europe. Maybe one of you has suggestions what I should look for?
LLVM is basically an IR which allows for rapid development of compilers for new languages and a set of backend tools and libraries to produce binaries to run on the targeted platforms.
Clang is an attempt to replace GNU C/C++/Objective C, built on top of LLVM.
Flang is similar to Clang but for Fortran IIRC.
Apple bought the LLVM project when they ran up against the restrictions of the GPL with the GCC tools, but I think they are planning to go much further with the technology to create a universal binary with some linking done on the end user’s system. Maybe they already have taken that step. I don’t keep up.
Clang was eating into the GCC mindshare for a while with better static analysis, but, as with Intel, never bet against Stallman. GCC got much better in the last decade or so.
I have an AMD A6-9500E AM4 APU running as a home server.
The current AMD equivalent available to the enthusiast community would be the AMD 8500G running on a motherboard allowing configurable TDP limit of 35W.
Yeah, ATX boards with the spinning fan power supplies, but I’ve never had a lot of luck with the single board computers in the same role. Either the performance just isn’t there in some critical area or the Chinesium power supplies died after six months running 24/7.
wow, it’s 49F this morning. That is the chilliest it’s been so far. Fall is actually here and Winter is close.
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Spilled some of my coffee getting it out of the machine. Tragic.
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I’m not getting too involved in any early announcements by Trump. Remember that his main negotiating tactic is to say or demand something outrageous, get his opponents worked up, then offer something more reasonable. “god-level trolling” might be just that.
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dog has been very cling-y this morning. Weird. Keeps winding around my legs like a cat and demanding skitches.
n
– yeah, run scared biatches.
n
It’s so bad, he’s willing to take the loss. I bet a guy savvy enough to have all that money in the first place has a better grasp of the numbers than the DM writer. (almost used the word “reporter”…) And no mention of the tax consequences. He’ll take a write off on the losses to offset gains elsewhere, get out of a declining market, and move to a state with no income tax…
n
Another writer with a tongue bath for a career criminal…
n
My current core home setup is:
Cisco 3750 switch (used off ebay a couple years ago). I do have Cat6 running to the important spots in the house, as well as to outside camera locations.
UniFi AP’s – 2 downstairs and 1 upstairs
Synology NAS (DS281j) – smallest 2 drive unit. I just upgraded both drives from 2TB to 8TB. Old drives were 3 years old and functioning fine – just preempting drive troubles.
Dell Precision 5820 workstation (Intel Xeon 2102 and 64 GB RAM) as my vmware host. Purchased off lease. I added a SAS controller card and use SATA SSD and SAS spinning metal drives. Works great for my vm’s – currently 2 Active Directory DC’s, exchange 2019 server, 2019 server for Plex, 2019 server for minecraft, a windows 11 vm, and a couple 2022 test servers.
If I ever decide to simplify, I’ll upgrade my Synology NAS to something newer and ditch the vmware server. Synology has a bunch of apps that provide all sorts of services, including an LDAP directory, DNS, mail, etc.
Sounds like a bunch of Chinese relatives.
@Greg Norton:
LLVM-based languages are an evolutionary dead end.
That said, I regret not taking Compilers during my first pass at grad school, where the professor taught how to build on top of LLVM. That would be a useful skill to have in the toolbox.
Why are they an evolutionary dead end?
Moderna has no other products besides jabs, “vaccines” based on mRNA tech. RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary would mean that the approval will not get short circuited and those of us in the Control will remain at ~ 15% of the population.
Baillie Gifford, the biggest single stock holder, is also a major investor in SpaceX.
I have some first-hand observations about Moderna which I’ll share later this weekend.
LLVM languages are syntactic sugar for C++. The compiled binaries may be “safer” than C++ but they will never be faster or, more importantly, smaller than the C++ equivalent.
Klingon houses.
Rust OTOH is more like a Ferengi name.
Rust Rule of Acquisition: Once you have the customer’s money for a piece of code, never give it back.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/11/trump-to-universities-drop-dead.php
Nice endowment, if you can keep it.
Can’t wait to see what the Dems do to try to defend the shiite show.
And towering stacks of stuff. All in all, I spent a couple of hours moving stuff, digging through the piles, and killing ants.
I have gone through three 24 oz jugs of Amdro this week. The fire ants burrowed under my new 1,200 ft2 front section driveway so they appeared on both sides. Just lovely. One bed was six feet long.
Lone wolf is not a viable path.
Lone Wolfs get taken out by the MZBs (mutant zombie bikers).
You can read about this in the most excellent “Lights Out” by David Crawford which is set here in Texas.
https://www.amazon.com/Lights-Out-David-Crawford/dp/0615427359?tag=ttgnet-20
“Joel Osteen’s latest production is a Netflix film about the life of Mary”
https://www.chron.com/culture/religion/article/joel-osteen-netflix-film-mary-19915868.php
“Osteen, now leading one of the nation’s largest and wealthiest megachurches, has returned to his production roots in attaching his name to the Netflix feature, Mary, which premieres on the platform Dec. 6. The film, directed by D.J. Caruso (Disturbia), tells the biblical tale of Mary and Joseph (played by Israeli actors Noa Cohen and Ido Tako) and their newborn son Jesus as they flee the pursuit of King Herod (two-time Academy Award winner Sir Anthony Hopkins). Osteen recently told me he wanted to do the film because “Mary is an inspiration to women everywhere.””
Looks very interesting.
Just a little is known about Mary. Not much is known about Joseph. Some church historians now theorize that Mary was Joseph’s second wife after his first wife passed away late in life. Some historians think that Jesus’s brothers and sisters were from Joseph’s first wife. Lots of speculation and very few hard facts.
We do know that Joseph, Mary, and Jesus fled to Egypt for several years until King Herod passed away. Refugees. Makes me have sympathy for true refugees in these times.
>> My wife thinks RFK is a kook with his food and health beliefs. I don’t know, because I haven’t looked.
What I do know is that after learning about the way the FDA works, and how the food pyramid was developed and adopted, and going on the Atkins diet, I’m a lot more open to alternative viewpoints, and willing to at least consider big changes to things I grew up with.
How’d that first batch of ‘rat trap’ stew turn out? 😉
And yeah, with enough ketchup it tastes like chicken.
“Corrupt DOJ’s Actions in Bankruptcy of Alex Jones Will Likely Be Investigated by Trump DOJ”
https://joehoft.com/corrupt-dojs-actions-in-bankruptcy-of-alex-jones-will-likely-be-investigated-by-trump-doj/
“The Bankruptcy arm of the DOJ was involved in Alex Jones’s BK and the Trump Team will likely look into it.”
“Alex Jones was targeted and then forced to sell his company.”
https://www.infowars.com/ is back up !
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
LLVM is basically an IR which allows for rapid development of compilers for new languages and a set of backend tools and libraries to produce binaries to run on the targeted platforms.
What is an IR ?
“Jesus’ Brother Bob” by the Arrogant Worms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVVOUHTtJkY
I didn’t know either, tho I guessed “intermediate”.
So Packt (can’t afford Springer!) to the rescue:
https://www.packtpub.com/en-us/learning/how-to-tutorials/introducing-llvm-intermediate-representation/
“Peanut the Squirrel tests negative for rabies after New York authorities euthanized him to test him for rabies”
https://notthebee.com/article/peanut-the-squirrel-tests-negative-for-rabies/
This was the most abusive thing that I have seen in a long while.
Apparently, the puckered sphincter who turned the owner into the authorities was a rival influencer on one of the social media platforms.
Trash comes early Friday morning. Usually around 9AM. Sometimes 2PM. I had a beer box stuffed full of cardboard and handful of trash from the freezer.
Get in the van. It just ratchets and the gauges twitch madly. Put the trash in the truck and back to the house for the truck keys. The truck is complaining about low tire pressure. They look fine, I’ll just ignore the light. I made it in time for the trash. Tossed most of a week’s worth of mail, too. Then to the grocery store for a couple of things. But no beer.
Once the groceries were put away I grabbed the Fluke. The year and a half old battery was sitting at 9.65 volts. Two year warranty from NAPA. Another trip to town and they gave me a battery. I asked what about the warranty on the new battery? Does it expire when the bad battery’s warranty expires in six months? He said that’s how it’s suppose to work but we don’t do that here. Your warranty jut re-started. Nice!
Then I found some shooting ear muffs and started the air compressor. The truck tires were all at 27 or 26 psi. The van was about 25 with one at 20. The Jeep has sat for over a year and it was at 23 all the way around. I aired up the tires on the side by side. They looked fine but while I’m doing this, get it done.
I’m starting to feel the up and down and then toting three bags of salt to the softener. Oh, and a battery.
A useful day.
NY Bakery Refutes Whoopi Goldberg’s Claim It Didn’t Serve Her Over Political Views
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/11/ny-bakery-refutes-whoopi-goldbergs-claim-it-didnt-serve-her-over-political-views/
What is it about bakeries that drives PLT’s nucking futs? Gibson’s Bakery, Masterpiece Cakeshop, and now Holtermann’s Bakery in Staten Island. Are they somewhow triggered by donuts? Creme filling? Mousse? Is this a clue to an organic disease?
Do you own a baker? Start a new trend! Put a sign up in the window:
“PLT’s are Not a Protected Class!
We Do Not Serve PLT’s
Thank You For Understanding”
What is it about bakeries that drives PLT’s nucking futs? Gibson’s Bakery, Masterpiece Cakeshop, and now Holtermann’s Bakery in Staten Island. Are they somewhow triggered by donuts? Creme filling? Mousse? Is this a clue to an organic disease?
As near as I can understand, bakers and other blue collar people are way below PLTs. PLTs believe that all of these bakers and other people should bow down to the PLTs and scurry about as ordered.
My experience is that PLTs are usually not very nice people. Their main goal in life is to use our children as their footstools.
We’re Already Seeing the Effects of Trump Nominating RFK Jr. to HHS
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/11/15/heres-what-happened-to-vaccine-company-stocks-after-trump-nominated-rfk-jr-as-hhs-head-n2647840
Look at the video, and ask what we are doing wrong that has degraded our life expectancy so much with respect to other countries. With the billions of dollars in public money going into research, seems like we should know.
I just looked at my cheddar cheese.
It says “added color”, but does not specify.
I’m ready to give this guy a chance.
For those who worry about medical institutions being able to afford the lawsuits, Houston Methodist anounced a $1.4 Billion tower in the med center, opening in 2027.
HM generally pays cash for capital improvements, like the $300 Million Epic install in 2014, the $300 Million Woodlands hospital in 2016, and their most recent $300 Million med center tower in 2019.
HM is a not-for-profit institution with 7 community hospitals and a research institute and primary care and specialty care groups.
Malcolm X’s Family Files Bombshell Lawsuit Against Government for Role in His Assassination
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/11/15/malcolm-xs-family-files-bombshell-lawsuit-against-government-for-role-in-his-assassination-n2182053
Gee, never seen that playbook before.
Another thing to add to the investigations into DOJ and FBI.
Fixed it.
A Bridezilla is a Bridezilla, gay or straight, whether in possession of Y chromosomes or “assigned female at birth”.
Annatto seed. Americans expect their cheeses to be certain colors.
I correct myself.
Twitter post about $1.4 billion tower was an old news article.
It was referencing the newest tower that I mistakenly said cost $300 Million.
re: cheese
There are 2 sources of rennet used to make cheese.
One is the centuries-old process of extracting it from veal calves’ stomachs.
The other is a Pfizer-developed fermentation process.
95% of cheese uses the new process.
I’m considering giving up cheese. I suppose I should research it more.
“Evidence Points to Voter Fraud in 2024 Wisconsin Senate Race”
https://thelibertydaily.com/evidence-points-voter-fraud-2024-wisconsin-senate-race/
Yup, any curve like that is voter fraud to me.
Throw the election out and repeat it.
re: cheese
There are 2 sources of rennet used to make cheese.
One is the centuries-old process of extracting it from veal calves’ stomachs.
The other is a Pfizer-developed fermentation process.
95% of cheese uses the new process.
I’m considering giving up cheese. I suppose I should research it more.
Cheese powder was total invented. And the usage is skyrocketing.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/object-of-interest-cheese-powder
““If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t,” Michael Pollan writes in his “Food Rules, an Eater’s Manual.” Few foods violate this edict more flagrantly than cheese powder, which seems supernatural in form and often in color. Yet Americans spend billions of dollars each year on boxed macaroni and cheese, cheese puffs, and nearly infinite permutations of “nacho cheese”-flavored snacks—perhaps because, as the food scientist Stephen Witherly has written, cheese is high in energy, fat, flavor compounds, and casein, a type of protein that, when digested, produces compounds called casomorphins, which “may have opioid-like effects in the body.” Taco Bell’s Doritos Locos Tacos, which are coated with the signature Doritos dust, recently analyzed by the Times, have become one of the chain’s most successful new products ever, with more than a billion dollars in sales since their introduction in March of last year.”
“But it turns out that an even better way to keep cheese from spoiling is to dehydrate it. In the most popular method, “spray-drying,” liquid is sprayed into a chamber and blasted with hot air. The liquid evaporates, and the remaining solid, a dry particle, is left behind. While Marco Polo reportedly encountered a type of powdered milk in thirteenth-century Mongolia, and the first patent for commercial spray-drying was awarded to Samuel Percy in 1872, the first industrial spray-dried dairy products weren’t manufactured until shortly after Kraft’s development of processed cheese in the nineteen-twenties, according to “Food Powders: Physical Properties, Processing, and Functionality.””
According to The Food that Built America, Kraft “innovated” mac and cheese postwar, in part, to use up the warehouses full of wartime powdered cheese.
“Speaker Johnson Will Not Request House Ethics Committee to Release Report on Matt Gaetz”
https://resistthemainstream.com/johnson-reveals-jaw-dropping-decision-on-whether-gaetz-sex-allegations-report-should-be-released/
“Gaetz was accused of having sexual contact with a woman who said that she was 17 at the time of the encounter. She said that she had sex with the politician when she was a minor in high school, as Resist the Mainstream reported in September.”
“The FBI also conducted an investigation on Gaetz for the same allegations; however, the Justice Department decided not to charge him over sex trafficking a minor.”
“At least 30 Republicans are rumored to vote against his nomination, per The Wall Street Journal.”
If she was a minor, that is a violation of the Mann act. Why was Gaetz not charged ?
I am suspecting that she was a sting and it blew up.
The House Ethics Committee report has been leaked. If they can’t find the leaker, I’d suggest that they shitte-can all current members and start over. New members should be required to sign an agreement stipulating leaks will be investigated with all available tools, including drugs and water boarding, and starting with the ranking minority member.
The House Ethics Committee report has been leaked.
We all knew it would get leaked. Shoot, Gaetz might have leaked it himself.
Renewable Transition Raw Materials Challenge
Roger Caiazza
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/14/renewable-transition-raw-materials-challenge/
Roger Caiazza is a meteorologist with a 40-year resume:
https://pragmaticenvironmentalistofnewyork.blog/author/rogercaiazza/
Good article, and the Bulletin link goes directly to a 296-page pdf.
The green zealots are simply a communist front movement engaged in a blatant effort to drive the West to bankruptcy with asymmetrical economic warfare.
“Hydrogen Powered CAT C15 Dump Truck!?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHO4jvp1Ljo
The 105,000 lb GVW 550 hp CAT diesel 18 speed Eaton manual tranny dump truck is hers. She has a pup trailer that carries another 50,000 ??? lbs also. No DEF, no soot burner system since is a 1990 ??? truck.
A couple of gallons of water is not much hydrogen.
I picked up a Dell 24″ All in One PC for $10.13 today. It was listed as just a monitor. It’s got win10, wasn’t locked, and is only 3 years old. Other than the kids’ chromebooks and the wife’s work lappy, it might be the newest PC in the house.
I intended to use it as a media/music playback device in the garage at the BOL. I might have to rethink that and use it somewhere else. I think I’ve got an older All in One with a touch screen in the attic that I could use in the garage. Or I could just use it since it was so cheap. Seems like overkill.
n
I swapped out the dead switch for the one I pulled off the stack. House is mostly back to normal. I’ve got two cameras that haven’t come back up though. I”ll see if I can figure out which run they are on and power cycle them again. I don’t want to take the whole switch down.
n
I picked up a Dell 24″ All in One PC for $10.13 today. It was listed as just a monitor. It’s got win10, wasn’t locked, and is only 3 years old. Other than the kids’ chromebooks and the wife’s work lappy, it might be the newest PC in the house.
Wasn’t locked ?
Oh, you mean login password locked.
yup, account called “owner” with no password set.
Old lady owned it, based on the docs still on the hard drive.
n
yup, account called “owner” with no password set.
Old lady owned it, based on the docs still on the hard drive.
n
She only used it on Sundays then.
I would be tempted to do a reinstall.
I would be tempted to do a reinstall.
– that’s probably safest. Just need to extract the serial numbers. Since it’s a Dell, maybe there is a factory restore partition.
n
>> dog has been very cling-y this morning. Weird. Keeps winding around my legs like a cat and demanding skitches.
@nick, possibly related to the new fence??
>> I swapped out the dead switch for the one I pulled off the stack.
I’d skip adding the dead switch to the dead rat stew 🙂
>>“If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t,” Michael Pollan writes in his “Food Rules, an Eater’s Manual.” Few foods violate this edict more flagrantly than cheese powder, which seems supernatural in form and often in color.
I remember when I was younger and at the supermarket with my mother and I asked her why the Velveeta “cheese” wasn’t in the refrigerators like the rest of the cheese.