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quick fix to an overheating phone
my phone was at nearly 0% so i plugged in, but i guess fast charging and an encrypted video call was too much on a hot day. It shut down to the overheating screen. So I set it in a bag of frozen peas. Fixed it quick!
Feeding the Drobo again!
Another upgrade! Unfortunately, this will only give me 1TB, as it is my first 6TB in the array. Luckily i had this drive waiting on a shelf for this moment. I’ll need to order another 6 soon in order to take advantage of it’s full capacity. now the waiting. . .
I hope everyone is having a Super Tuesday!
I got out to vote a little later than i hoped and encountered a longer line than i have ever before (at least from voting). Only 55 minutes, nothing like some lines i have heard about. I got to play with the new electronic voting system. “It’s not connected to the internet” was the response that i received when inquiring into the device security. I have high confidence of the paper trail on these units, but I imagine that these machines do some sort of tabulation. Unless we actually count the paper ballets, it is those tabulations that we are expected to trust. These tabulation are trivial to manipulate if the devices are tampered with. “Don’t worry, it’s offline” dissuades none of these fears. Here are some pictures i took. Not pictured are the 2 broken units that were taped off at my precinct. Also, i was told that they should not have allowed me to take these pictures. i don’t know if that is true, but they did not seem to mind at the time. (i wasn’t wearing that shirt at the time)
Jay Leno Standup!
a good friend invited me to this hilarious set. So much laughter.
Terry Gilliam spoke after The Man Who Killed Don Quixote at incredible triple feature!
I was delighted to finally get to see the project that has been so long in the making. I enjoyed it immensely. I stayed for Time Bandits, but was too sleepy to remain to see The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Excited to have a Pi 4 in my hand even sooner than expected!
I have too many tantalizing projects to get started. Too bad i will not be taking advantage of the fancy new dual display capability. it has been some time since i had even one traditional display on my Pi. now i wait for the software. . .
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!
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.
