Posts made by RojoLoco

Glad I'm not at the office today... The power has been out all morning, even the emergency lights are out. Found out that Georgia Power "hit a substation", which sounds pretty serious. So I guess the office folks get a day off!

What has been going on with the site the last couple of days? It finally loaded correctly just now.

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/shocker-french-make-surprise-arrest-of-telegram-founder-at-paris-airport/

I saw that and just had to laugh, because these people and governments don't understand what encryption means and is meant to do.

It's made for hiding your criminal activities, YAY!!!!!

Candidate for new word to add to the dictionary - Crowdstruck.

@WrCombs Some janky Crowdstrike thing BSOD'ed a shit-tonne of windows machines, from what I read.

@EddieJennings said in OUR NEW VIDEO IS LIVE!!!!:

It's clear a non-trivial amount of effort went into making that. Opening and closing reminded me of some Karlheinz Stockhausen music I heard during undergrad.

That's actually an improvised synth piece done by the singer, using a little pocket device that's smaller than a cell phone. And I definitely need to check out some Karlheinz Stockhausen. Thanks for watching!

That's right, you heard right! Sonic Speculum's 1st video from their self titled debut album is LIVE on the tube right now!!!! Be the first on your block to see the madmen in action!!!

Youtube Video

A couple of years ago, we discovered that AT&T geoblocks all VOIP traffic from India. We sent some configured phones to them, because the bosses were told by AT&T that it would work fine. Nope. All the tracert results clearly showed them dropping the traffic. But then a few months ago, it started working! The India team emailed me asking to change out the names/extensions, and since then we've had no problems.

Get a C13 to C14 cable. Then you can plug the switch adapter into that.

Edit: then you can use any 5 port switch that takes 208v.

Giving the band's new video the final polish... Tighten up the audio fades, color correction, credits, and we're DONE!!! Stay tuned for the world premiere of SONIC SPECULUM'S 1st ever, no-budget, rock music video YouTube!!!!!

Getting ready to go see one of the most amazing psychedelic rock bands of our time... EARTHLESS. They are playing a little dive bar in East Atlanta, and our whole band will be in attendance. If you have never heard of them, here's a clip from a Mojave desert concert during covid:

Youtube Video

I wish the actual live footage of the band was on this, it's incredible.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Waiting on movers to transport a rack of servers to a different site. More fun than you can imagine.

Oh,.. that’s why Star Trek: Discovery started buffering on Plex… well,.. dang

I wish... their guest wifi is pretty weak. But all servers have arrived safely at their new home, snuggled in an inch thick blanket of pallet wrap.

Waiting on movers to transport a rack of servers to a different site. More fun than you can imagine.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@gjacobse I just got back from working in Belize!

Speaking of Belize....

Youtube Video

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

About to head out to a gig! We're playing a venue that is new to us (and relatively new in general). Stoked to play in front of some new faces! If we kill it, we'll be on the short list to open for national touring bands.

https://sonicspeculum.bandcamp.com if you want to hear what we do.

ooooooo how'd it go?
Did you get shortlisted?

Were faces melted?

It was an amazing night, all the other bands were excellent, we tore it up - using only half of our usual wall of amps! All faces were melted, and I know we will be doing more shows with the promoter now that he's seen us in action!

About to head out to a gig! We're playing a venue that is new to us (and relatively new in general). Stoked to play in front of some new faces! If we kill it, we'll be on the short list to open for national touring bands.

https://sonicspeculum.bandcamp.com if you want to hear what we do.

@pmoncho said in Astrophotography:

@Obsolesce
I stole the Jupiter pic from you. So darn cool.

Yup, I'll be using these for desktop backgrounds. Awesome pics @Obsolesce!

@gjacobse looks like standard type materials you can get at home depot - the vertical bits might even be made of audio-type rack rails.

@Danp said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:

@DustinB3403 I used RC in the past, and it should be able to handle this without issue. You should only need to pay for a single user for this to work.

We currently use RC. Honestly, as much as I want to bag on it, I can't. It works, all the time. The only thing I ever have to touch on RC is add/remove users.

@nadnerB AMEN! Whenever I see an abandoned cart in a parking lot, I sigh and think "whoever did that is why we can't have nice things as a society". Sometimes I say it out loud at people who I see in the act of abandoning a cart. Able bodied people, nice day outside, but they still can't be bothered. And I've NEVER seen an elderly shopper who did not return their cart.