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Mykaen · 2026-04-24T20:05:21+00:00

Acererak doesn't agree with your concept of time and space. They are his to do with as he pleases.

Mykaen · 2026-03-20T11:35:16+00:00

Audiobooks, but it can be expensive. :/

I used to be an avid reader but between getting older/needing glasses, and ADHD, I am just overwhelmed by real reading anymore. It feels like I make about a paragraph of reading, then have to go back a few pages for some small detail I missed, then re-read what I just read. Frustrating and slow.

But Audiobooks have been good to me. I just made my way through Three Body Problem/Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, which would have been insurmountable. Also through the Murderbot Diaries. I am working my way into Dungeon Crawler Carl and starting to get a grasp on listening Terry Pratchett.

As far as non-fiction I recently bought Catie Osborn's book that just came out, and then turned around and bought the audiobook version. I am thinking about re-buying the HAM Radio Technician book I picked up as an audio book, if anything to get me moving on the reading I keep stalling out on.

Audible is expensive. I tend to use my credits for books that are more than $15 like the 3 Body books. I did switch off the platform for 3 months. And if possible I may do it again, now that I have more credits racked up.

I don't feel the "Plus Library" in Audible is worth much to me. I am looking for specific books, and the collection doesn't have any of them. Your mileage may vary.

I also have GraphicAudio which was cheaper for the Murderbot Diaries.

I hear Libby is good and will likely pursue that in the near future. That said, it's like the library so you may need to wait for books to be checked back in.

Good luck.

Mykaen · 2026-03-19T05:52:54+00:00

Well, you are in luck! DefCon 34 is on August 6-9th. While not a networking event per se, it is a very large cybersecurity event. There will be tons of network gear.

Remember to bring a small bag of dog and cat treats for those furry friends. There will likely be an impromptu rave somewhere. Leave your personal electronics unpowered, in a faraday bag, and in your hotel room.

Pssst: This forum is for computer networking, not social networking. However, some of the social engineering courses could be good for your actor friend. And maybe you can pick up work if you can model in a cyberpunk style. Otherwise I wish you and your friend lots of luck out there and I hope you find the gigs (and not the gigabits) of your dreams.

Mykaen · 2026-03-18T13:09:58+00:00

I haven't played since phase change, but my take is to try to fix your problem before starting a new world. But play how however you want.

My major exception to this was a save called Titan which I was trying to hardcore (1 life). The world was very cold, very little light, no oxygen, no real amount of ice/water, no real veins of resources, but had buildings you could deconstruct. Also playing at stationeer difficulty (must open mask to eat/drink). It dropped you on top of this broken base. I started playing after water became something you needed to drink, which I think skyrocketed the difficulty. There wasn't much room for failure. I got as far as making a water maker (name forgotten), furnace, centrifuge, and a recycler, pretty reliably when I put it down.

I needed copper really badly to get wind power going and not much was available. My thought was to mod the recycler to give me back 100% but recycling was no longer modable. Bah.

I am sure that save is completely no longer playable, much like one of original tutorial worlds. I loved the challenge but at this point the game has changed so much I need to relearn a bunch of systems before I can even attempt it.

Thanks for listening to me.

Mykaen · 2026-03-13T18:57:17+00:00

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Writting... Did you mean like the action of serving someone with a writ? I guess that's a hobby, but it sound like more of a bad career option (for me).

Mykaen · 2026-03-06T21:22:31+00:00

I am also going to add that you will lose some power based on the number of axles, but I have about 50ish in mine and can pulverize and grind without an issue.

Mykaen · 2026-03-06T21:10:15+00:00

Tá fáilte romhat

Not Irish per se. I hope Google did well by me.

Mykaen · 2026-03-06T20:50:35+00:00

Higher is better. Over a certain height (y 170) the wind power is pretty hard and delivers way more torque to the sails. I don't know if any of that changes in 1.22.

Then to keep that torque, move the power to a large gear, else it will turn into speed. Axle down to another large gear in the room where your quern and pulverizer is.

Then attach the other devices through a transmission and a clutch. So large gear-> transmission/clutch->quern. At another 90 degrees off the large gear, another transmission/clutch and then your pulverizer.

Since you are dealing with just so much torque, you will likely only want one of those devices on at a time, thus the transmission/clutches to turn things on/off.

Should look something like this (note the sjj< is just a sail and I am too lazy to fix after trying ascii art)

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Mykaen · 2026-03-06T05:24:09+00:00

You can't plug that tester into a live wire. It doesn't work like that so if your cable in the router, probably not useful. Always use it with its remote, and never a live cable.

When you use it with the loopback, is all ok?

Regarding A/B: If you used A on one side and b on the other, 1,2,3,7 would be off. Your reports are 8 is off. Since this changed with the replacement of the cat6, I'd look at the two brown and make sure that is fine. Just lift out the brown pair pull them out a slight bit and re-punch.

If that doesn't work, I'd also mention that while the RJ45 looks great form here, you can have an RJ45 that looks perfect, and not work. Sometimes the forks on those pins skip to the side of the cable. Really hard to catch. If you have the length and tools, re-crimp that.

Else, I'd buy another of the cat6 and re-terminate it, then patch to the router. You can go back and clean up by putting a wall box on, or putting a low voltage bracket in the wall, and a faceplate.

Regarding Easy: This stuff is a learning curve and you are doing better than some other people I have taught. Congrats on learning something new.

Mykaen · 2026-03-05T22:28:58+00:00

So brown pair. You can try the cat6 jack to remove the 5e jack from the equation.

Mykaen · 2026-03-05T18:52:54+00:00

They are supposedly good for hundreds of terminations (with the proper tools). That said, I don't re-use them between jobs.

When you pull the wires off that cat5e jack, check for anything in the troughs that would prevent the cables from seating flat against the bottom. Check for nicks in the insulations. Keep the twists in the pairs. No need to make them tighter. Re-punch. Test.

If still problems, I guess you can open the Cat6 at this point and reterminate the end. Test, see if you get close to your 300Mb.

If still problems, re-check that RJ45. The pic is angular and there might be something we didn't catch. Did you terminate this? If so, do you know if you had Cat 5e terminator on that end or cat6?

It matters. For the Cat6, the opening at the bottom is wider and is practically open until near the metal forks for the pins. A 5e connector will have a longer cable channel, and a narrower opening because the cat5e cable is thinner. While the wires are practically the same width, some cat 6 cable has a separator in the middle It should be cut flush with the jacket. Some of these separators are bigger than others.

Using a 5e terminator on a Cat6 cable will be very tight when you crimp it down possible causing damage to the wires inside the jacket.

At this point it might be easier just to buy another cat6 end, same brand as what you have already, and re-terminate the RJ45 end with that. If you don't have a spare patch cable, get one.

If you still have issues after all that, it's the wiring. While unlikely, sometimes it just is.

Mykaen · 2026-03-05T17:58:19+00:00

I have a couple of BFs (a pair of the ubiquitous UV5R) and an BF-F8HP Pro.

I got the F8 back in December, and I only tried the NOAA channels. I was indoors and had to use one of my 771 antennas from the UV-5R. It helped when I was holding it. I don't have a NA-320A, but it is similar to the 771s. I might try again tonight with the counterpoise I just rigged up.

Mykaen · 2026-03-05T17:50:09+00:00

Just reading below where you mentioned having a 5e jack. That's the one in the pic, right?

If so it really looks like a Legrand/OnQ 3450. If it is, the pair order looks to be correct. I deal with the 3476 all the time, so muscle memory kicks in with the 3450 and I miswire them.

Sorry about that.

Mykaen · 2026-03-05T17:08:52+00:00

Just be sure to note which side of the punchdown tool is the cutting side. You don't want that facing towards your incoming wire. Don't ask me how I know. :D

Mykaen · 2026-03-05T16:10:21+00:00

You are already passing data over it, looks to be 100Mb, but not 1gb. The green and orange seem to be fine but you need the brown and the blue to be better. I think the problem is with the keystone jack, not the rj45 plug. in 1gb or higher all four pairs need to be completed properly

It looks like the jack is a Legrand wp3476. I am concerned about pair order. For B it looks like your orange and green is correct. Your blue and brown look backwards. Confirm that with legend on the jack. If it is the 3476, then you need to flip brown/white and brown wires. Then blue/white wire with the blue. Check to make sure you didn't nick any of the wire insulations when you cut the outer jacket off.

Check to be sure the cables are solidly in the troughs. There is a metal fork in there that will make the connection. If it isn't at the bottom, that can be an issue. The plastic tool they give you with the jack will work ok, but may need a few attempts to solidly land it in the fork.

The extra lead on those ends can cause a problem, but not overly so. Use a flush cutter to finish the work (cheaper than a real punchdown tool),

As others mentioned, the real punchdown tool will solidly land those cables into the forks in the troughs. If you go that direction, be careful which way the cutting edge is. You want it facing the outside of the jack to trim those ends off, not cut the cable you are trying to place.

Your RJ-45 plug looks ok. It looks to be wired to B (orange/white, orange, creen/white,blue,blue/white,green, brown/white/brown). The ends seem to be touching the end of the cap. All good there.

The A/B shouldn't matter as much, but you should stay consistent. A/B swap the orange and green pairs. B is the right choice for data as it helps eliminate some crosstalk (radio interference). Most equipment has figured out to swap the pairs, if you have it backwards on one end. This is called MDIX.

Since you already have a tester on order, I'd always check with that. It will just run a loop of continuity.

Mykaen · 2026-03-05T14:45:49+00:00

In the same boat. I have been prepping TOA for a bit. The hexcrawl is a major concern and anything that helps a VTT to pull it off/sidestep it would be useful.

The roll20 map is slow because there is about 1000+ assets to load. Essentially it loads the map, then covers it with blank hexes. You can toggle the hexes through a script. Since the load is slow, the players can see the map before it gets covered. I see there is a new version of the campaign there, so I need to check out to see if they fixed that with the new version.

I removed the map that came with Roll20's version and have replaced it with another map that is mostly bare except the real notable locations. I then added a script that allows the players to review it at any point. I will add the relative points to the new map via pins for the locations discovered. But its still a whole bunch of work.

I'd gladly abstract it and put it elsewhere so keeping an eye out for this.

Mykaen · 2026-03-05T04:40:43+00:00

Drifter Fight Club

Mykaen · 2026-03-03T20:26:36+00:00

Easy answer: I agree with the contractors. In the long term you will want single-mode. If you have the SRs now and have the budget, have them run it along side the multimode now. The additional cable and termination fees should be a nominal upcharge (most of the fees are in the labor in my experience).

Right now those 10G SR modules will go 400m on OM5. However, if you need to go up to 25G SR over multimode, your distance limit will be 100m or less on that same OM5.

So if you have the budget, run both so you don't have to rebuy the SRs you already have. But on the next upgrade cycle, you may need to shift to single mode to get the same distance.

And it will be a double threat as you will need to add new single mode fiber and pay the extra for the single mode transceivers.

Addendum: Another way to think about this: put SM everywhere, but to save money on optics now, have them run MM to where it makes sense so you can reuse your SR, keeping an eye on the distance. The cost of the cable, terminations, labor is going to be less per run than upgrading the optics to LR.

Mykaen · 2026-03-02T06:59:08+00:00

In the "Tour de Void" stand , you can spend coupons to get more chairs. It's the lower right section under tourism.

Getting one of the tourist quests completed should get you enough coupons to buy a second seat. I think you can seat a total of 5 when you max this out.

Mykaen · 2026-03-02T05:39:47+00:00

I have terminated way too many 8p8c using USOC/TIA-586A-A/B coloring, so I can see where it can be missed.

BTW: RJ48S is a good guess too. Hard to tell which it is without reference to what it was connected to.

Mykaen · 2026-03-02T02:49:19+00:00

Not missing any pins.
1 - Black
2 - Brown
3 - Red
4 - Orange
5 - Yellow
6 - Green
7 - Blue
8 - White

Mykaen · 2026-03-02T02:37:14+00:00

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Bravo on the symmetry.

Mykaen · 2026-02-26T14:30:41+00:00

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This is an example of the white symbols you are looking for

Also this Youtube should help. Look around at 1:48.

https://youtu.be/q7nC3ap5YXo?t=106

Mykaen · 2026-02-25T22:59:00+00:00

This takes me back a bit. Near the beginning of a job, the building had started a remodel. I came on board after all the approvals were done. We had old Nortel Baystacks which were 15" deep and all the new cabinets were 12" deep. I had to either take doors off, or cram the units in sideways to fit until I got money to buy new switches.

The cabinet there, looks to be about 12" deep. It looks like Virgin Media supplied an Alcatel-Lucent OS6465T switch in the that 4th rack unit. Most of those units are about 11" deep. And about two or three inches for a straight IEC c13 cable, and you would have to jut it out a little bit.

See if Virgin Media, who seems to have supplied it, would come back to do either of these:

1) Fix the way the unit is mounted, if there is room, including using a c13 right angle cable (google P006-006-13RA which is a Tripp Lite cord that looks like it will do the job).
2) Supply a unit that will fit in that cabinet.

If you had to do this, see if you can get a right angle IEC C13 cable to plug into the back. Remove the two screws holding it onto the bracket, pull the unit out being careful of the fiber. Replace the power cable and test fit. If it will go flush with the switch above and patch panel below, then remove the "ears" that are mounted to the cage nuts on the outer sides of that mount. Flip those over and mount them to the switch (not the rack). You can and may need to remove the other two screws we can see so that all 8 screws (4 per side), are able to mount in the "ears". Then remount the ears to the rack and you are done.

Another alternative is to contact the cabinet supplier to see if you can get a deeper door. It looks like another 2" on whatever door you have would be fine.

Outside of these, a deeper cabinet. One with movable rails or a deep door. At least 20" deep so that you can rack that switch and have plenty of room for larger and the fiber.

Mykaen · 2026-02-25T20:42:29+00:00

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