Recycling can be fun (just found that video again)

Youtube Video

Just bought a pack of high power infrared diodes (Osram SFH 4556P) and hacked a few webcams (removed the IR filter and added a filter for visible light made from an old 3.5" floppy disk).

Great and cheap head-tracking setup.

2000lbs WW2 bomb found danger close to where I live. The security zone is just a few meters away. Feels strange.

"Sperrzone": No one allowed here, except for the fire department's bomb disposal team
"Warnzone": No traffic, close windows.

https://twitter.com/FeuerwehrHH/status/822327142155329536

@scottalanmiller Defused, 5 minutes ago:

https://twitter.com/RHH_Reporter/status/822404252689715200
https://twitter.com/RHH_Reporter/status/822403675284967424

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr stay safe. Amazing how many of those there are.

We will be ok, Hamburg's bomb disposal team (unique in Germany) is doing a damn good job.

Last bomb was found 2 days ago a few KM to the north. This one is a bit larger. Not a blockbuster, but impressive.

Seventy two years later and finding giant bombs is still a continuous thing! Imagine how long until Bosnia is safe to walk around!

Take a look at Afghanistan for example. Russia laid millions of land mines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet–Afghan_War

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to set up a demo email server. Getting ready for my first coffee of the day.

Is the coffee so intense their that you have to get ready for it?

Didn't you know you have to be pumped up to drink coffee. Can't be all like "ehhhhh I want coffee but meeeehhhh" You need to be "I need coffee now before I murder the first person who says even 1 word to me"

I think that may be a sign of addiction...

Well yeah, but it's the best kind of addiction, and an awesome result is people tend to avoid you first thing in the morning

Except that people just ignore me all the time....

We all love y... erm, are you new here?

@Dominica said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr Oh darn. @scottalanmiller umm, you know where a fire extinguisher is in this house, right?

Scott: "Honey, I'm home. What are you cooking? Smells great!"
Dominica: "Li-Ion soup?"

One of my DCs just died. Noticed that the hard drive was nearly full (probably about time to replace SCOM with Icinga). Told the VM to shut down, took it nearly an hour. Added another 40GB to the VMs VHD, started it and bang: Bluescreen, disk full. The VM went into a reboot loop afterward, ending up either in the recovery console or another blue screen.

Well, couldn't expand the filesystem this way, so I grabbed a gparted ISO and the DC was online again just 5 minutes later.

@StrongBad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I might need to get one of these in the near future:
https://www.amazon.com/ThinkGeek-Phantom-Keystroker-V2/dp/B002YJW7C4

That's just evil.

That's like...

Pinky: "Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"
Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!"

On my way to a comedy show. On the ferry right now.

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Hit by a truck - that's how I feel like. Guess I catched a cold.

Rebuilding a patch panel, looks like the incarnation of the spaghetti monster right now. Should look like this when it's done:

Patch panel
48 port switch
Patch panel
Cable management panel
Patch panel
48 port switch
Patch panel

... and so on. A lot of work, but it's worth the effort.

You don't have a full rack of patch panels, then a full rack of switches?

That's how it looks like right now. And it looks like crap. 3 to 7.5m long cables, barely manageable. Will be replaced by 0.25m cables. There are just 400 ports

Two hours of unboxing. Cute white boxes. All have funny chars printed on them: ES-16-XG, ES-48-LITE, ES-8-150W, ER-Infinity, ER-4, UAC-AP-PRO, ...

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

And you need models But I think for model trains it would be especially cool.

For example, I printed these

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:222802

and these

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2631795

My dad was looking for bridge pillars

@ccwtech said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Explaining to @Tech1 that Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is different than Spaceballs

Spaceballs: Comb the desert
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Marvin

PS: Better read the books.

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@ccwtech said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Explaining to @Tech1 that Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is different than Spaceballs

Spaceballs: Comb the desert
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Marvin

PS: Better read the books.

Dunno what spaceballs and hitchhikers guide are, but i heard the names.

Are you kidding me?

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@ccwtech said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Explaining to @Tech1 that Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is different than Spaceballs

Spaceballs: Comb the desert
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Marvin

PS: Better read the books.

Dunno what spaceballs and hitchhikers guide are, but i heard the names.

Two of the most important movies in history. Followed by other masterpieces like Army of Darkness, Kelly’s Heroes, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist or Monty Python’s Life of Brian.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@ccwtech said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Explaining to @Tech1 that Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is different than Spaceballs

Spaceballs: Comb the desert
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Marvin

PS: Better read the books.

Spaceballs the movie: the NOVEL!!!! Where the real money from the movie is made!!!

I thought it was moichandising?

Spaceballs, the Flamethrower. Kids love 'em

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I hate Spectrum..... still dealing with them since first thing this morning.

It is a small world we had a couple dropouts about an hour ago. I used the chat function. I am not a nice person if I have been put on hold after sparing with rosy the robot IVR.

I have been having issues for a couple days (happens every time we get a bit of rain). Drives me nuts. I made them come out and fix stuff.

Nuts... remembers me of what I did with a USB thumb drive not long ago. We have some that we hand out to students. But they never bring it back. So I asked our workshop to just attach something large to it. They used a M60 nut (weights about 0.5kg, probably worth more than the thumb drive :p) and a wire. We normally use them to fix large machines to the floor.

Works perfectly.

Prep'ing another Orange Pi Zero. Will be my new OctoPrint 3D printserver.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs Install the Role "Active Directory Domain Services" and "DNS Server"

Installed.
Gotta setup a Domain controller now, it wont let me do anything else (add user, computers, etc. ) until I do.

Just in case you're starting a new AD: Better go read a few articles about AD DNS setup, naming conventions and general best practices before configuring the role. Choosing a good root level domain name is of utmost importance and it shouldn't be changed later.

It's possible, but requires expert level knowledge. It's like jumping through a minefield - blindfolded on a pogo stick.