I’ve just played a round of “If John owned a pencil sharpener, where would he keep it?” — but I didn’t win.
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Monthly Archives: June 2023
Amphetamine
I wanted to know how to stop my MacBook Pro from going to sleep when I closed its lid, so I asked ChatGPT and discovered Amphetamine. Good work, Internet; you have come a long way since the nineties.
p.s. I always wanted to blog about amphetamines.
Keyrings
It is well known that I am a nerd. But if there were any doubt, this removes it. :)
In The Lab With Jay Jay – June 17, 2023 – Scope Test
This post is part of my video blog: In The Lab With Jay Jay.
This video is just me testing the operation and recording of my MSO5074 scope and my signal generator.
In The Lab With Jay Jay – June 17, 2023 – Hello, World
This post is part of my video blog: In The Lab With Jay Jay.
Just preparing my lab cameras. This video is a bit sketchy because I made some mistakes during recording. But it is what it is. Hi! :)
Installing Vim on FreeBSD
I was fooling in my new OPNsense router and needed myself a copy of Vim. Learned I could install it on FreeBSD (on which OPNsense is based) using the `pkg` command:
# pkg install vim
Computer coffee table
Here’s something fun. I had a computer sitting on the floor in my lab for a few months while I waited for some parts to arrive so I could service it. In the intervening time I discovered that it was rather handy, and functioned as a small “coffee table” in the center of my room which was good for storing books and magazines on. So I taped some cardboard to the base (for when I stub my toe on it!) and have kept it as a permanent fixture now.
Homework
This is a part of the homework feature of my blog, which is an ongoing conversation with my mate S.F.
I found OWC Docks & Hubs. This Thunderbolt 3 Dock looks pretty good.
The stomping kitties video I mentioned is Rathergood – Communist Kittens sing Tanz Mit Laibach by Laibach but unfortunately it’s been taken down for copyright reasons. :(
There are some notes about uniforms on Wikipedia, there are also a bunch of books on the topic of the history of uniforms over on Amazon.
I found a preview for Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Might try and grab it on iTunes some time.
The Foo Fighters track that I said I thought was pretty good was The Pretender. But on listening to it again now it’s not about what I thought it was about when I thought it was pretty good! :P
The expression jamais vu is a sense of unfamiliarity with, or of never having experienced or seen before, something that should be familiar. Like when you walk into your bedroom and have the feeling like you’re seeing it for the first time.
The Prisoner’s dilemma is an interesting thought experiment from game theory.
Never forget Hits from the Bong from Cypress Hill.
The quote about how to fly from Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything is:
“The Guide says there is an art to flying”, said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
I’m gonna put The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Five Parts on my wish list.
Also there is quite a lot of material on the subject of psychological boundaries.
Network v4
I have redone my computer network in its fourth (and final?) incarnation. Everything got redesigned from the ground up. You can see some of the (color coded!) cabling here:
The two switches on top (GREEN and ORANGE) support speeds up to 2.5 Gbps, whereas the bottom two switches (RED and BLUE) only support up to 1 Gbps. The white cables on the right are spares, they’re just auxiliary cables which have already been installed and are available if I need them in an emergency.