Ramblings of some nerdy IT tinkerer dude.
Well, 2020 came and went, and uhh, well, good riddance!
I’ve been slacking over the last few weeks, mostly working and haven’t really messed too much with projects or hobby stuff recently. Personally, I’ve been struggling in the motivation department; I guess seasonal depression on top of the pandemic and everything else isn’t doing me or anyone any favors lately. On a positive note, I *have* done a few things though…
Continue reading “Slacking in 2021; a new post and home automation fun”I realize today that I have a handful of drafts on here that I never completed (not surprised), and I haven’t actually updated since October 8th, so 2 months ago. I actually have a lot of stuff to post, just need to focus on getting it all done.
Continue reading “Checking In – Early December 2020”Had a funky issue to work through the other day; I set up a basic call queue with 2 attendants in Microsoft Teams voice. For this queue I used “serial” routing so that it followed a specific order for the attendants. Oddly, the first person couldn’t answer the phone.
Continue reading “Microsoft Teams Voice – Call Queue Troubleshooting”Ok, I’ll readily admit this site likely seems boring and conservative; even I wouldn’t have imagined that despite having more hobbies than brains, that the thing I’d be posting about the most are…postcards? Really?? Like I needed another hobby. I promise I’ll post some more fun stuff in the near future, until then…the boring stuff LOL. I’m not all “conservative” either; the heavy metal music rattles the antiques too much.
Continue reading “1876 Philadelphia Centennial Trade Card – Potsdamer & Co.”As I’m from Conshohocken, PA, I got interested in the history of it in the recent past, with books like this one, as well as other books, events, and web sites hosted by Jack and Brian Coll of Coll’s Custom Framing.
Conshohocken is a small town with a big name, and even bigger history. Having had it’s place in the industrial revolution, Conshohocken, or “Conshy”, was known for immigrants, and industry; including (but not limited to) steel, textiles, surgical supplies, and tires. (It was also known for supposedly having a record for most churches, bars, and funeral homes in a square mile, or something like that?) ANYWAY, a notable figure in that history was J. Ellwood Lee, a Conshohocken native-turned-inventor who was awarded a number of patents, earlier with surgical supplies he started making in his attic, and later to rubber, eventually founding the Lee Tire Company.
Continue reading “Leeland Mansion Postcard – 1917”Another IT tidbit, and honestly kind of a boring but funny one. I was fiddling around with my desk setup, and have my laptop as one of my screens. Since the laptop sits on the desk and the other screens are sort of “above” it on a stand, I attempted to set Windows to mimic the real-life configuration of the monitors.
What I ran into though, was the fact that there are no overlapping edges between screen #1 and screen #2, so the mouse would not jump – at all – off of screen #1. I HAD to move it over so that there was at least a little overlap between the two, like this:
Just figured I’d share!
In IT there are certain things that you don’t often “dig into”, either for lack of time or just the fact that something “just works”. Other than setting up necessary routes and gateways, usually through DHCP, you often don’t bother with routing on a user’s workstation, but hopefully a lesson I learned recently will stop someone else from making the same mistake.
Continue reading “TIL: Route -f Breaks Sophos Endpoint”Here in 2020, it seems like any time since March of 2020 (about 5 months ago in reality), seems like a literal eternity. Going back beyond that, like 16 years back, for an 80s kid that will always be a kid at heart, is a bit overwhelming to process. With practically no events, shows, or things to do, I’ve recently started getting nostalgic for the old PhillyClassic video game expos that used to take place at (what once was) the Valley Forge Expo Center, now Valley Forge Casino Event Center.
Continue reading “PhillyClassic 4 Video Game Expo – Pics, and a Tribute”So, I KNOW about impedance matching and all that, but bear with me while I tell a tale about staying up waaay too late to play with some junk on the workbench, and what that meant to my sleep schedule.
Continue reading “Today I Learned: 50 ohm Impedance”Finally. FINALLY. F-I-N-A-L-L-Y, I get to post some non-nerd content 😉
A few weeks ago I was driving my 1986 Buick Grand National around, and while waiting at a red light, glanced down to check my fuel level. Now, normally the gauge was, well, not very precise. If the needle moved, it probably had something in it, and if it was sorta-kinda resting near E, there’s a chance it was close to bone dry. That day though, the needle was…well…gone, like out on vacation, nowhere to be seen. After making sure I was awake, I realized it was probably pegged, and a quick love-tap to the top of the instrument cluster brought it back to earth. I laughed it off, then realized that after owning the car for 16 years, the gas gauge never really worked right, and pondered if I could actually do something about it.
Continue reading “Grand National Fuel Gauge Fix – Part 1”