Lots of awards presented. i’ve got to enter more photo competitions. https://la3dclub.com/
Category: pointless
Pointless
impressive turnout for the No Kings march in Studio City!
Not one of the big marches in Los Angeles, but there must be well over 250 people of all ages!
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.
