"Random techie stuff I've been doing during the lockdown" thread
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You may want to check with your companies lawyers before you try too hard, if you haven't already. Keeping copies of those email is likely against policy and could potentially get you sued - especially if you happen to be going to work for another company that could in any way be considered a competitor...
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My old 34 inch wide-screen died, so I decided to improve the work from home setup as I'm not traveling @ the moment. New Dell 49 inch
Also, I decided to do some more experimentation into running dual sims on my Pixel 4XL. I'm running FI and Verison's Visible service side-by side and it has been great thus far.
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I use it w/ my 2015 MacBook pro (with discrete) graphics card) as well as a crappy HP x360 I use on occasion. So far I love it!! Some words of warning:
- It's Yuge!! Make sure you have the desk space.
- It ain't a gaming monitor. It doesn't have the high-refresh rate gamers want. OK for me as I'm using it for work, where it is FANTASTIC.
- Some Macs with built in intel graphics don't support full resolution on it (at least not easily).
- It will make you incapable of working on your regular laptop screen ever again.
I'm so spoiled now.
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Ham radio is techie stuff, right? I spent most of the past few months (when I wasn't working from home for my day job as a software developer) finally getting an HOA-sanctioned home station set up. Before now, I never thought to bother to do so because antennas aren't really a thing HOAs in general like, so I would typically travel elsewhere to operate.
Anyway, I got a magnetic loop antenna onto my 2 story building's flat roof (with a ~5ft mast holding it horizontally above the roof). This is a lot smaller of an antenna than people usually use for HF (< 30 MHz), but it performs reasonably well. The downside is that I have to retune it using an indoor control box every time I change frequencies on the radio, but I don't typically move around much when operating anyway.
I also did a fair bit of soldering and Arduino programming for an interface between a handheld RF amplifier and my portable radio. It basically communicates serially with the radio and generates voltages that the amplifier recognizes depending on what frequency the radio is on (which then cause the correct low pass filter to be switched inline).
As for computer stuff, I managed to get Let's Encrypt to automatically perform DNS validation of one of the VMs I manage for some people I know (required for wildcard certificates). I'm also thinking that I want to finally replace the last Ethernet switch that I need to replace to have the entire condo's LAN 10 gigabit capable. For that, I may try the Mikrotik CRS309-1G-8S+IN with the needed 1/10GBaseT modules as my CRS312-4C+8XG-RM has performed well since I got it.
Longer term (if there's another lockdown, which is very possible at this point), I'm thinking I may want to finally build a replacement for the FreeNAS server that we have here, with newer/more hardware/drives and using RAIDZ2 instead of what's effectively RAID10. And try to silence it altogether if at all possible, too.
Anyway, I got a magnetic loop antenna onto my 2 story building's flat roof (with a ~5ft mast holding it horizontally above the roof). This is a lot smaller of an antenna than people usually use for HF (< 30 MHz), but it performs reasonably well. The downside is that I have to retune it using an indoor control box every time I change frequencies on the radio, but I don't typically move around much when operating anyway.
I also did a fair bit of soldering and Arduino programming for an interface between a handheld RF amplifier and my portable radio. It basically communicates serially with the radio and generates voltages that the amplifier recognizes depending on what frequency the radio is on (which then cause the correct low pass filter to be switched inline).
As for computer stuff, I managed to get Let's Encrypt to automatically perform DNS validation of one of the VMs I manage for some people I know (required for wildcard certificates). I'm also thinking that I want to finally replace the last Ethernet switch that I need to replace to have the entire condo's LAN 10 gigabit capable. For that, I may try the Mikrotik CRS309-1G-8S+IN with the needed 1/10GBaseT modules as my CRS312-4C+8XG-RM has performed well since I got it.
Longer term (if there's another lockdown, which is very possible at this point), I'm thinking I may want to finally build a replacement for the FreeNAS server that we have here, with newer/more hardware/drives and using RAIDZ2 instead of what's effectively RAID10. And try to silence it altogether if at all possible, too.
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Something, something, "...too rich or too thin" updated to include " or too fast."
I run a 1 gig LAN in my office. Not even sure where I would get 10 gig hardware.
ETA: I know it's out there. I read an article in the last year or so that stated the LAN in use at one (or more) of the alphabet agencies was 96 gig. Now we know why Garcia (Criminal Minds} is able to pull all that stuff up so quickly.
I run a 1 gig LAN in my office. Not even sure where I would get 10 gig hardware.
ETA: I know it's out there. I read an article in the last year or so that stated the LAN in use at one (or more) of the alphabet agencies was 96 gig. Now we know why Garcia (Criminal Minds} is able to pull all that stuff up so quickly.
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