Linker3000

@linker3000
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IT Service Management by day. Electron wrangler by night. Into analogue and digital electronics, microcontrollers, vintage 8-bit computers, #Meshtastic 'n' stuff. STEM Ambassador (UK).
West Sussex, United Kingdom.
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Posting a comment about Gate Array Logic ICs (GALs) has just reminded me of a time a couple of years back when I received a bad batch of said devices ('New old stock'), and the supplier wanted a quick video of me running tests on a couple of chips, so I duly made a recording and sent it to them.

Naturally, I kept a copy of the test video...and that's how I had to show my wife and explain the contents of a folder on the home server called BADGALS.

BBC reporter interviewing a space scientist about the Artemis mission:

"...then the crew will be at the Lunar observation window - what's that for?"

If your feline has many sites open in their browser, they are probably a tabby cat.

Well, a very domestic day:

Finished the Node-RED Geofence flow.

Removed Postfix, Dovecot etc. on old server now I am using Mailcow.

Installed msmtp & made sure all system messages were still sent to me.

Finished configuring the reverse proxy on new main server to point to some test sites on the old server and redid all the Apache config files & certs.

Hacked back into a Joomla site where I'd updated the password ages ago and didn't save it (did a direct update in the user database table)

You really have to work at it to make an input form this user hostile. I could not make it accept even my dumbed-down text.

Maybe support doesn't want anyone to contact them (aha - neat trick)!? Oh, and there was no "Chat function" that I could see.

Geo tracking and geo fencing in Node-RED with a map page available on the LAN or via VPN through a reverse proxy. The flow supports output triggers for me (or any other tracked entity) entering or leaving a defined geo fenced area. Oh, I've injected synthetic test data - I am not really standing on the top of the O2 Arena!

I found this really cool FOSS Android app to use to send in the tracking data via secure API: https://colota.app/

Why did the manager often have trouble locating the office printer?

He had poor peripheral vision.

The person who was arrested after throwing powdered Jell-O and a jug of water over Donald Trump has subsequently been charged with trying to set a president.
Bargain!

First World problem:

When that piece of cardboard box or empty parcel bag with some packing tape still on it gets stuck to the TOP of the recycling sack when you put it in.