Category: Filler
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TDS is a sickness
While scrolling through X, looking for something to write about, I stumbled on a posting regarding Trump’s annual physical and its results. /Trump’s 2025 Annual Physical Results The post and almost all the comments are of the “It’s a fake!” or “They’re lying!” His temperature is normal. That can’t be because it is just an…
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Document Object Model
A modern website is a complex system of inter related pieces. Each of which must work correctly and communicate correctly with the other parts of the system. As website creators, we break the design into the Frontend and the Backend. The front end is anything the end user sees, while the back end is responsible…
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How Many Languages Do You Speak?
In computer languages, there are very few that are structurally different. FORTRAN is like COBOL, which is like Pascal, which is like BASIC, which is like ADA, which is like … Forth is not like those above. Nor is APL or Lisp. Assembly languages can be used in structured ways, just like FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal,…
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It’s Complicated
Networking should be simple. Even when it was big, it was simple. Plug the wires in correctly, assign the IP address your system administrator gave you, and you are up and running on the internet. We built each node on the net to be able to withstand attacks. Each node was a fortress. But when…
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Eating Their Own
It is difficult for me to make friends. In general, my friends have come from my place of work or from my lady introducing me to people. I make the effort when I’m out. I just don’t like people enough to be out and about. I’ve been watching the pain that Ally has been going…
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Thank You for the tools…
There are a few servers that are too old. There is a need for a few more servers to get a room level redundancy. These things can be expensive. As I’m cheap, I’ve been using older servers that accept 3.5″ disk drives. Some except 2 drives, some 6, some could accept more, but the case…
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It’s Late, Nerd Babble/status
We are in the process of moving from the image above to the image below. At least in terms of what the infrastructure looks like. Today I decommissioned an EdgeRouter 4 which features a “fanless router with a four-core, 1 GHz MIPS64 processor, 3 1Gbit RJ45 ports, and 1G SFP port.” When they say “MIPS64”…
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Things that make you go Hmmm?
For the most part, I’ve stopped writing or reporting on “mass shootings”. They happen. My initial takes are normally wrong. The information that we are fed is designed to tell a story. I hate being a conspiracy guy. My biggest error, so far, has been my initial analysis of the Trump shooting. Having said that,…
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Trump Derangement Syndrome
An example — from an NYU professor: “{DJT’s holding a rally in Waco} sends a clear message…Waco has been a pilgrimage site for White power and militia movements… He is paying homage to this tradition and doubling down on his profile as leader of an extremist cult (MAGA). The stagecraft and rituals seen at this…
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Single Point of Failure?
Resiliency is a goal. I’m not sure if we ever actually reach it. In my configuration, I’ve decided that the loss of a single node should be tolerated. This means that any hardware failure that takes a node of line is considered to be within the redundancy tolerance of the data center. This means that…