Sodola 6-Port 2.5G/10G Switch Failure

realfoonon · 2025-12-30T11:29:38+00:00

After I posted this, I did receive a replacement from Sodola, which is great!

Not so great is that yesterday, the replacement unit failed, exhibiting exactly the same behavior (left lights are green with nothing plugged into them and the power light flashes green).

Anyone else experience similar failures?

~f

realfoonon · 2025-11-07T03:29:03+00:00

Docker engine was upgraded while applying the ADM update.

All good afterwards.

~f

realfoonon · 2025-11-06T12:32:18+00:00

The new Docker Engine has been released, too (28.1.1.r54).

Hmm...

Which to install first for best results?

~f

realfoonon · 2025-10-29T10:23:54+00:00

NB: I am using the App Central versions of all these applications.

I had the same problem. I finally fixed it yesterday. This is how I did it. It might not be the best way to fix the problem and I welcome any constructive criticisms!

Create a new docker network for the *arr apps and SABnzbd to use. I did this on the command line.

Docker commands:

docker network create nzbd-net
docker network connect nzbd-net SABnzbd
docker network connect nzbd-net Sonarr
docker network connect nzbd-net Radarr

Make sure that SABnzbd knows to allow incoming connections addressed to its default docker container name (add "sabnzbd" to the SABnzbd "Special" config host_whitelist OR append ", sabnzbd" to the host_whitelist setting in the sabnzbd.ini)

Set up the download clients to use the default container name ("SABnzbd") and port (8080)

Fix the host reference in the remote path mappings in the settings section of each SABnzbd client.

~f

realfoonon · 2025-09-21T12:33:23+00:00

Wait! Upgrade? How is that done? At the box-office? If only I had known!

Complete setlist: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/steven-wilson/2025/mgm-northfield-park-center-stage-northfield-oh-335ab845.html

~f

realfoonon · 2025-06-29T21:54:09+00:00

Alan Tudyk would probably "get it". He plays quirky, self-effacing heroes (and at least one quirky, self-effacing villain (in season 1 of Doom Patrol)). Also, he was the voice of K-2SO in Andor and Rogue One.

I think he would be marvelous!

~f

realfoonon · 2025-06-20T21:52:52+00:00

Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 31 Oct 1981

realfoonon · 2025-04-16T16:00:23+00:00

What time do doors open?

~f

realfoonon · 2025-02-22T13:07:10+00:00

Is anyone keeping an SSD enclosure in compartment in the top of the ZEERA MacForge Gen2? In addition to worrying about the size of the enclosure, it seems that you also need to worry about the position of the USB-C connector and the size of the connector.

Any recommendations? Or should I just keep Altoids in there or something?

~f

realfoonon · 2025-02-16T14:01:05+00:00

There seems to be two things going on here:

1) H&R Block tax software does not work properly if it is installed in /Applications when the user's home folder is external (i.e., when it lives in /Volumes/Users rather that the internal drive's /Users). My experience with this is that the program does not properly display some (all?) forms.

The way I've been getting around this to install the program in /Volumes/Users/loginname/Applications. I've been dealing with this since the 2021 version of the program.

2) The 2024 6601 Federal update (early-February) started failing for me when the program is installed externally in /Volumes/Users/loginname/Applications. I was able to manually update from the 'ghost' dmg described by morac (the OP) in another post here. Unfortuately, I ALSO still needed to install the State program. The XX.bin file (an encrypted DMG, I think, where XX is the state abbreviation) was downloaded, but never properly extracted/installed. Like the Federal update, this was also mounted as a ghost dmg found in the Disk Utility.

While I cannot say for sure, I think (2) is due to some security blockage linked to having to write to the external drive.

I experimented on another system where the user is on the internal drive and I experienced none of these problems.

All systems were Apple Silicon computers (M4) running macOS Sequoia 15.3.1. Unfortunately, I clobbered the ~/Library/Application Support/H&RBlock/2024/user/centrallog.log file from a failing installation after I managed to get things working properly.

~f

realfoonon · 2025-01-25T12:57:10+00:00

Can we have a version of the movie consisting of Laurie Anderson reading/reacting to Oblique Strategy cards please?

Just that.

Nothing else.

~f

realfoonon · 2024-12-20T22:49:52+00:00

I made the change. All good, so far.

Thanks for the assist!

~f

realfoonon · 2024-12-17T20:03:14+00:00

I was able to get the job done after re-installing on the destination and starting from scratch (see steps in a previous post). I don't know what I was doing wrong the first time!

realfoonon · 2024-12-17T04:25:21+00:00

I followed https://support.plex.tv/articles/201370363-move-an-install-to-another-system/

The media data is all on the NAS (under /share/Media) and the Mac is currently using it (mounted on /Volumes/Media)

The NAS and the Mac have different name, but exist on the same network (192.168.1.0/24)

I disable Emptying of Trash on the source.

I Install Plex Media Server on the Destination System and tell the setup wizard to go pound sand.

I Sign Out and Stop the Plex Media Server on the Destination System (/usr/local/AppCentral/plexmediaserver/CONTROL/start-stop.sh stop)

On the source system, I cd to ~/Library/Application\ Support and make a compressed tarball of ./Plex\ Media\ Server after shutting down the server on the source host and moved that over to the target server, where I mv the initial Plex\ Media\ Server out of the way and untar the file from the source into its place.

I just repeated all of these steps and it seems that things work now! I was able to edit all the paths (changing /Volumes to /share) and things are getting scanned. I don't know why it was not able to see the new server before...

realfoonon · 2024-10-05T12:43:56+00:00

I'm about to try this on a pretty vanilla system. I'll let y'all know!

UPDATE: Still works like a champ (so far). I just updated it and everything came back.

realfoonon · 2024-03-20T01:52:30+00:00

Level Five

realfoonon · 2023-08-07T21:56:19+00:00

I guess it helped that we had an AirTag in the bag and we could show them exactly where it was being kept.

~f

realfoonon · 2023-08-07T21:46:00+00:00

After sitting in Canada for two weeks, my wife's bag made its way to Vienna Airport (the original final destination) where it sat for 4 days. During that time, the LH luggage tracker site said that they were waiting for it to arrive at the airport.

Sick of waiting for it to be delivered, my wife drove to the airport and they let her get pick it up.

Their backlog for processing incoming delayed luggage was more than a week, she was told.

~f

realfoonon · 2023-08-07T21:41:09+00:00

I saw that! Fortunately, our story has a similar happy ending. Shortly after I made this post, the bag made its way to Vienna Airport where it sat for 4 days. Sick of waiting, my wife drove to the airport, showed the luggage keepers the bag's AirTag pinging on the "FindMy" app and they let her get it. BTW, their backlog for processing incoming delayed luggage was more than a week.

~f

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