Category: Technology
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Nostalgia, of sorts
While digging around for the supporting paperwork for a passport application, I came across a blue folder with the name of the college (Pennsylvania College of Technology) I attended in the US. Somehow, even though it’s decades distant, I still have my undergraduate transcript and the B.Sc. certificate. For posterity: Semester Course Title Grade Major/Support…
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Drying a camera
The club has a Hikvision camera mounted up high, looking out over the bay. We call it the Slipcam, because the main view is our slip and pontoon. Last weekend, the image went all foggy – it’s a unit that apparently doesn’t have any kind of fan or vent for condensation – and I picked…
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Eir F3000 (F@st 5366) pains redux
With Eir being unreachable via phone, I decided to poke the router they sent me, to see if I could tamper with the request that was causing issues. Basically, in the set of four requests that were XHR’d over to the router, I wanted to drop the first one. First stop, a tick in Firefox’s…
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Eir F3000 (F@st 5366) pains
As a bid to save some money, I changed ISPs this week, and while the switchover was absolutely painless (compared to what it used to be like to change DSL providers), the lump of hardware Eir supply is a bit less than painless. The F3000 box that they send out is a Sagemcom device, potentially…
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PlantUML, sequence diagrams
Today I learned that the diagram style that shows two or more vertical lines with actions going from line to line is called a sequence diagram, and it’s a UML thing (we never got in to UML when I was in college). Then I discovered PlantUML, which takes plain text input (like Graphviz dot files),…
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iPhone GPS .. untrustworthy
All of the photos in the bottom half of this screenshot were taken in the same place. The GPS module of the iPhone XS that was use has placed the photos in 5 different places, and only one of them is partially right. So yeah, trusting the GPS to say where you were based on…