Not one of the big marches in Los Angeles, but there must be well over 250 people of all ages!
Category: pointless
Pointless
Status update:
i have finally deployed some much needed updates as well as some resource restructuring of my hosted system. i broke a few things (php-curl), i fixed a few things (wordpress plugins). For the first time in ages, i am looking forward to my AWS bill. AND. . . i may actually be federated.
My final visit to the Encino Avenue bridge.
After reading of its impending destruction, i was hoping to pay the Encino Avenue pedestrian overpass a final visit. Unfortunately visits were discouraged. The messaging was a bit mixed, as the fence was literally tied up with string. i took pictures without trespassing. The 101 will shutdown between White Oak and Burbank over the weekend for the bridge’s demolition.
@stroughtonsmith made me Be the best VM i could Be!
It was a bit more of a pain than i remember it being back in college. After a subtle inspiration from @stroughtonsmith. I now have BeOS VM. there is an option to play connect four while installing (an unusual feature).
Adding some color to my blog…
What do you think? I am using the Format options of this theme.
Throwback Thursday: Just home from Defcon 8!
Are you getting ready for Defcon? I was recently given some old photos from some of our early days. Find me there!
That last post was number 500!
Hard to imagine that i have made 500+ posts on this site. I guess that’s what happens when you post self-indulgently for a decade! There are still piles of drafts that might be useful if i ever get around to finishing them. Not no bad, only 72 out of 501 posts are pointless.
Cleaning out my office I found an ancient Asterisk Box!
Originally my router/PBX this Dell P4 was installed with some of the earliest Digium PCI analogue cards. This card supported both FXS and FXO modules, and i used them both in various configurations. One of the FXS modules is what allowed my housemate’s old rotary phone to connect to the house phone system. I loved testing the system by ringing his phone. The ringing of its actual bell, was a delight. That dell survived the infamous flood (by already being decommissioned). I think I paid over $200 for this card alone. Now i run Asterisk off my Raspberry Pi with a total hardware cost considerably less than that.
Introducing DEFCam or how i made a hat for DEFCON!
This is a silly project that i have spent probably too much time on. First I thought, why not time-lapse my upcoming defcon trip. Then i thought, why not live stream it. So… I started with a Pi Zero and a Pi Camera v1. Wired some pins to the GPIO for power. Made a custom wire and hot glued it into the hat. Done!
