Re: [AFMUG] mess around VPS

2021-01-01 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Packetflux and related businesses all lives on vultr, other than our ecommerce for right now since we have that outsourced to one of the big ecommerce providers. It's cheap enough that I'll spin up a server just to play with something. Most things can live on their $5/month servers. I really

[AFMUG] Wishing everyone a good riddance...

2020-12-31 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
And hopefulness that 2021 will be an improvement over 2020. -- - Forrest -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Online backups.

2020-12-31 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Oh, I was going to add - I do use backblaze for a thirdcopy of critical data. It's a good value and seems to work well. Some of it is using their B2 storage engine and some of it is using their backup service. And for the most critical stuff there's a copy in an Amazon Glacier bucket as

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Online backups.

2020-12-31 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I just spun up a urBackup server and rolled it myself - but that's because I couldn't find an online service that would actually behave in a way I wanted for a decent amount of money. It also helps that I'm backing up packetflux machines and in-cloud machines, none of which are in the WISP's

Re: [AFMUG] OT gantt chart

2020-12-26 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
projectlibre.com perhaps? On Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 12:03 PM Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > Anyone have any recommendations for free gantt chart software. I miss MS > project. Everyone now seems to be cloud based and subscription based. > > I am about to renew my basic smartsheet subscription but I

Re: [AFMUG] Old Phone Question

2020-12-22 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
s=station o=office Some ATA's have 'paging mode' which I think is for this application... not sure how they 'sieze' the line though... On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 5:49 PM Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > This thing will appear as a pots line. You could connect a telephone to > it and talk over it.

Re: [AFMUG] Site Monitor OIDs

2020-12-18 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Assuming a base II It should show you those values. But if for some reason it doesn't, If you need to figure it out, basically the first part of the OID is the same for all of the values in the column, and the last value changes from row to row and should match the index value shown in the

Re: [AFMUG] SNMP AC Current Monitoring

2020-12-18 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
m aboard, while you > play the Packetflux theme song. > > > > *From:* AF *On Behalf Of *Forrest Christian > (List Account) > *Sent:* Thursday, December 17, 2020 4:52 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] SNMP AC Current Monitoring >

Re: [AFMUG] SNMP AC Current Monitoring

2020-12-17 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
No he's just so buried under year end, and onboarding new employees, and a whole bunch of other crap that he's not watching the lists like normal. In re the original thread, there are a couple commercial tranducers I plan on directly supporting at some point, maybe these new employees will

Re: [AFMUG] Water heaters

2020-12-01 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
There's usually a bolt looking thing on the top which is actually the end of the anode. The real purpose of the anode is to attract all the corrosive crap and corrode so your tank doesn't. Once it is fully corroded, you can either replace it, or the alternative is that your tank gets to corrode

Re: [AFMUG] Smart wireshark dudes

2020-12-01 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
As others have said, this is a multicast address, used to send a 'broadcast' to other interested parties on the local network. The main difference between 'multicast' and 'broadcast' is that in broadcast all parties receive it, and in multicast only interested parties receive it. It's more

Re: [AFMUG] Water heaters

2020-11-29 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
In my last house with limited electricity, I ended up with a power vent Gas. Loved it. Easy to install, with PVC pipe for vent. The new place has an electric hot water heater, when it fails I might replace it with one of the new heat pump hot water heaters, although I'll need to do a bit more

Re: [AFMUG] pumpkin pie questions

2020-11-26 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
How can you have too much pumpkin pie? On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 6:18 PM Robert wrote: > Two words... Too Huge! > > On 11/25/20 5:09 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: > > One word: Costco. > > I gave up making pumpkin pies once I found how yummy the costco &g

Re: [AFMUG] pumpkin pie questions

2020-11-25 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
One word: Costco. I gave up making pumpkin pies once I found how yummy the costco pies were I used to always be the pie maker, don't remember when the last time I made one was. On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 5:26 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > - Why (in the year of smaller Thanksgiving gatherings) can

Re: [AFMUG] OT: this press conference

2020-11-20 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
One other theme which seems to be coming up is the recurring statement that the left spent years trying to prove collusion with Russia. I would argue that it was pretty obvious that Russia at least tried to meddle last time around, and the purpose of the investigation was about figuring out how

Re: [AFMUG] OT A betting pool

2020-11-14 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
for the sack tonight). > > Maybe we can bet on whether there will be a civil war, which may be tough > as the Mason-Dixon line is no longer valid today. All betting options are > open. > > > bp > > > On 11/13/2020 9:39 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: >

Re: [AFMUG] OT A betting pool

2020-11-13 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I figure the earliest anything is going to change is once Georgia is done with their "Audit" next week. I expect that there are Republican leaders who are hoping that Georgia finds something. If they don't then that is going to put one of the final nails in the coffin (not that there aren't

Re: [AFMUG] OT: The Silence is deafening..

2020-11-10 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I think historians are going to look at this era as a turning point for our country and that 45 was the catalyst. However, which direction we head after the turning point seems very much up in the air at this point. Hopefully, we won't take a hard right or left turn. We really need to take

Re: [AFMUG] OT: The Silence is deafening..

2020-11-09 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Just a factual correction: RealClearPolitics never called Pennsylvania. And yes, I checked archive.org to verify. And in case it comes up: CNN never called Arizona. In fact, for quite some time Fox and possibly the AP were the only ones who had called Arizona. On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 5:39 PM

Re: [AFMUG] WISPs & Covid at 8 months and counting

2020-10-27 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Wearing a face mask provides very little protection for the wearer from the virus. This fact is what the anti-maskers tend to spout over and over and over again. And it's true.If you're wearing a mask to prevent yourself from catching the virus, well, you're effectively in the category of

Re: [AFMUG] WISPs & Covid at 8 months and counting

2020-10-26 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I'm not sure if I've said this publicly on the list or not I figure that I'm going to stay sequestered and away from people until May or June of next year. By then, it should have started to subside, we should have a vaccine available at least to part of the population, and the

Re: [AFMUG] WISPs & Covid at 8 months and counting

2020-10-26 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Isn't this year all about conflicting information and more accurately changing information. The one I love right now is the Republicans saying one moment that the democrats want to shut everything down again, and then the next moment saying that the current restrictions are all a political

Re: [AFMUG] OT new hires

2020-10-21 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I've had a position open here for quite some time. Two interviews set up, no shows. I don't doubt the unemployment statistics are correct, (i.e. that's the percentage collecting unemployment), but a more useful statistic would be the number of people actually interested in getting and holding

Re: [AFMUG] I miss

2020-10-12 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I have been thinking the same thing. I'm 2019, I spent nearly 3 months in hotel rooms between work and pleasure. Basically was a week a month somewhere. In 2020, the only trip we've taken other than a couple nearby weekend camping trips was to Vegas for CES in January. My biannual trip to

Re: [AFMUG] fun size Paydays

2020-10-12 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Something has to be going on to account for the seeming increase in both severity and quantity of peanut allergies. I am personally allergic to both peanuts and tree nuts. In my case it was apparently pretty obvious when my mother fed me my first and only peanut butter sandwich. She says that

Re: [AFMUG] 10Half Ethernet on Packetflux Site Monitor.

2020-09-10 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Is it a plan if it's already done? (The Base 3 does 10/100) I've been holding out on making a lot of nose about it until the firmware I'm just finishing up which supports most recent add on modules gets released. Hopefully next week sometime. But the hardware has been shipping for a while now,

Re: [AFMUG] Who installed this??

2020-09-04 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Worse, stainless steel isn't galvanically compatible with galvanized/zinc coated steel. So if you use stainless hardware on a galvanized tower, then add a bit of water (especially salt water) and you have a battery, which will *cause* corrosion. On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 8:31 PM Mathew Howard

Re: [AFMUG] Beehive Broadband

2020-08-29 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Sling has a relatively low cost plan which includes all the news providers. On Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 9:17 AM Lewis Bergman wrote: > My in laws moved in yesterday. Wife's folks. Gonna be here a few months > until the house is finished. They looove Fox News and evidently you have to > have a

Re: [AFMUG] Aviat power supplies and exploding power strips

2020-08-24 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
If an electrician doesn't care enough to check their work with an actual voltmeter then I'd suggest that perhaps switching to one which does might be a good idea. On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 8:37 PM Seth Mattinen wrote: > On 8/23/20 5:24 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > We had one farm where we got the 3

Re: [AFMUG] Buying and selling ISP’s

2020-08-21 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I don't have a lot of acquisition experience. It's been many years since we acquired anyone so take the following with a grain of salt. I would argue that the only thing of value in many WISPs are their customers. So you have to start with how much you think those customers are worth once you

Re: [AFMUG] Buying and selling ISP’s

2020-08-21 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
The last one we looked at purchasing, the owner wanted "much more than 1x revenue". We knew from experience with the gear they were using, and the way that they had it all put together that it was going to require replacing every bit of gear in the network and in some cases fixing towers

Re: [AFMUG] OT odd data connection

2020-08-20 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Ok, to clarify a few things about RS-485/modbus. RS-485 is a multidrop, balanced, async serial bus, designed to run for fairly long distances over a single 120 ohms twisted pair. General you're going to have A and B which are the data lines (complimentary), and some sort of third wire which is

Re: [AFMUG] Ot: illinois boiled eggs 14 minutes

2020-08-13 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I quit timing in minutes when I discovered one of the egg timers pictured below. Throw it in the pot in cold water with the eggs and boil until the color changes appropriately for the style of eggs you want. Since I like hard boiled it's just until all the red has changed to a darker color. My

Re: [AFMUG] OT Good news?

2020-08-06 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
So, I went digging for a reason behind the positives for people who didn't actually succeed in getting tested. One thing I found is that it sounds like some of these testing sites are not being run in a very intelligent manner.The brokenness you described (where 3 people who got out of line

Re: [AFMUG] OT Tortillas

2020-08-05 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
My experience is that tortillas freeze well... I've been known to buy the same industrial size bags and freeze them, and then pull them out a bit at a time. I usually try to buy the ones which are conveniently packaged into smaller inside packages where I can, and if not, I'll separate them so I

Re: [AFMUG] Domain Registration

2020-08-04 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Yep, I'm using the free DNS hosting with no complaints. I think all of my domains except one are using them. On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 5:17 PM Matt wrote: > > dynadot . > > > > Switched from godaddy to namecheap quite a few years ago, and moved on > to dynadot last year. Renewal prices for

[AFMUG] [OT] Cue the Locusts

2020-07-28 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Ok, I know that this is somewhat old news, but wow, I didn't know the swarms were this big this year... https://onezero.medium.com/locust-swarms-are-getting-so-big-that-we-need-radar-to-track-them-dc79c06496a0 -- - Forrest -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] OT bored

2020-07-24 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I find it exactly the opposite anymore. What changed it for me was obtaining an e-ink kindle (aka kindle paperwite), which optically is very much the same as a book. I had tried various e-readers before, and tablets, etc, and using the paperwhite is much superior. Plus, I typically read at

Re: [AFMUG] bored

2020-07-24 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I have a kindle unlimited subscription, all/most of these are free with that. Those that aren't I'll mark and are worth it. First, I agree, there are a *lot* of military sci-fi books where the sci-fi takes a second seat. I've tried to weed most of those out below. These are generally

Re: [AFMUG] OT (not political) first pitch

2020-07-24 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Apparently Fauci was the captain of his Basketball team in high school. So I would guess he's at least thrown a 9.5" round ball. I also know of at least one excellent basketball player that couldn't hit the side of a barn with a baseball. Sink a basket from the half-line, no problem. Pitch a

Re: [AFMUG] 450i/450m DFS false detect problem solved in later firmware?

2020-07-22 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
ean > flux. Unless you’re talking about maybe some alcohol after a manual repair. > > > > *From:* AF *On Behalf Of *Forrest Christian > (List Account) > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 22, 2020 9:25 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 450i/450m D

Re: [AFMUG] 450i/450m DFS false detect problem solved in later firmware?

2020-07-22 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
> > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 22, 2020, at 6:50 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) < > li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > >  > Actually it is a bare ceramic patch antenna. Look at the top, you're > seeing the side view. > > When I got the respons

Re: [AFMUG] 450i/450m DFS false detect problem solved in later firmware?

2020-07-22 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
s. These issues started about > the time we started deploying SyncInjectors but it’s really looking like > that is coincidental. Data is pointing toward something that changed with > the firmware rather than the injector. I have not had time yet to see if > it included the older 450

Re: [AFMUG] STIR/SHAKEN and call forwarding

2020-07-21 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
We push inbound calls to packetflux outbound to our cell phones with the callerid of the original call. My wife's phone has started to claim these are questionable in origin, but the call still works. Mine is old enough it probably doesn't understand. This will probably result in us running a

Re: [AFMUG] OT - political

2020-07-21 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
> sort of thing... asking for a friend > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 9:17 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < > li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > >> I would argue that sometimes the correct compromise is actually for one >> side to realize they were wrong and to abandon t

Re: [AFMUG] OT - political

2020-07-20 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Moffett wrote: > What would be the reasonable compromise between one caveman's right to > kill and other's not to be killed? > > Perhaps "kill whoever you want on Sunday, otherwise no killing" > > > On 7/20/2020 7:29 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: >

Re: [AFMUG] OT - political

2020-07-20 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Since this doesn't really reply to anyone's specific points, I figured I'd just post this separately in the thread. I've recently realized that pretty much all of the conflicts we see are where two sides 'rights' come in conflict with each other. Back before there were rules, I'm sure there was

Re: [AFMUG] OT - Grant Imahara dies at 49 from brain aneurysm

2020-07-15 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Adam apparently has a sister who keeps making false claims against her siblings hoping for a payout. Apparently the most recent claims were against Adam alledging abuse while they were both kids. I'm guessing this it's what he's referring to unless I missed something else. On Wed, Jul 15, 2020,

Re: [AFMUG] 450i/450m DFS false detect problem solved in later firmware?

2020-07-13 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
and any correlation > with DFS or LBT events within a 60 second window and see what we get. > > Mark > > On Jul 13, 2020, at 3:19 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) < > li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > > I need to be a bit clearer in that I'm not really sure what versi

Re: [AFMUG] 450i/450m DFS false detect problem solved in later firmware?

2020-07-13 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
rk. I can’t necessarily show anything specific at >> this point though.We do get a lot of archived and searchable logging >> from our Sumologic syslog server. I’m going to ask the NOC to put >> together a report of AP’s reporting timing recovery and any correlation >

Re: [AFMUG] 450i/450m DFS false detect problem solved in later firmware?

2020-07-13 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
thought ducting was causing it to see > distant signals, but it could also have been tripped by lightning. DFS is > fussy. I don’t like it. If I could swap out all the SMs on those DFS > sectors for 450b, I would probably move them to U-NII-1. > > > > > > *From:* AF *On

Re: [AFMUG] 450i/450m DFS false detect problem solved in later firmware?

2020-07-12 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
> > On 7/11/2020 3:12 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: > > I'm working with a customer that is having problems with DFS false hits > who is convinced this is a PacketFlux sync issue. I'm never one to say it > definitively isn't my problem, but I'm skeptical in this case.

[AFMUG] 450i/450m DFS false detect problem solved in later firmware?

2020-07-11 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I'm working with a customer that is having problems with DFS false hits who is convinced this is a PacketFlux sync issue. I'm never one to say it definitively isn't my problem, but I'm skeptical in this case. I know that at some point in the past that anything beyond 15.0.2 was known to have

Re: [AFMUG] Two SiteMonitor unresponsive

2020-07-08 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
The reset process uses multicast. The challenge with multicast is that Windows seems to be non-consistent about what interface it sends the multicast messages out on. Sometimes it's all of them. Sometimes it's at least the active ethernet. But for some reason, a certain (high) percentage of

Re: [AFMUG] Syncinjector cambium sync with 3ghz 450m

2020-06-25 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Everyone straightened you out just fine But yes, the 3Ghz medusa powers via the DC power, and gets sync over the ethernet port with a cambium sync rackinjector card OR a powerinjector+cambium sync if you're at a site without a rackinjector. And yes, it's fine to put power on the ethernet

Re: [AFMUG] OT new splicing trailer

2020-06-23 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Don't forget the favorite of my seminary teacher in High School: Son of a Biscuit Eater. On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 2:47 PM wrote: > They just look like florescent. They are actually led strips. > In Utah you have the following options for swearing: > Fetch > Flip > Frickin' (if you are wading

Re: [AFMUG] PacketFlux Sync for PTP 450i 900 MHz?

2020-06-19 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
00-BHM-Sync-Options/td-p/74379 > > > > I suspect we are actually talking about a PMP AP though, so we'd need to > clarify that > > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 8:53 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < > li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > > I see that everyone e

Re: [AFMUG] PacketFlux Sync for PTP 450i 900 MHz?

2020-06-19 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
ally talking about a PMP AP though, so we'd need to > clarify that > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 8:53 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < > li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > >> I see that everyone else is as confused as I am about some of these PTP >> Radios. >> &

Re: [AFMUG] PacketFlux Sync for PTP 450i 900 MHz?

2020-06-18 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I see that everyone else is as confused as I am about some of these PTP Radios. I'm about 100% certain that the 900Mhz PTP is be the AP hardware, in which case it should support any timing method you throw at it: Canopy sync, cambium sync, or aux port sync. For a single radio,the Syncbox Aux

Re: [AFMUG] Forrest- Paketflux cable lengths

2020-06-16 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
, 2020 at 9:41 PM Steve Jones wrote: > I didnt see F&@(>n cable length, so I assumed it wasn't documented > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 10:31 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < > li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > >> Well, in a rare case where there is a FM, the

Re: [AFMUG] Forrest- Paketflux cable lengths

2020-06-16 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
wrote: > RTFM doesn’t work so well if there is no FM. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 16, 2020, at 8:35 PM, Steve Jones > wrote: > >  > Can it be filled with cuss words? I'll send a resume if I get to cuss > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 6:25 PM Forrest Christian (List

Re: [AFMUG] Forrest- Paketflux cable lengths

2020-06-16 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
You should be fine to run those a dozen feet or so. Shouldn't be a problem with what you're describing. You never know, you might get your chance to write some salty documentation. I've got a pile of resumes I'm digging through (Upwork, local), and can say that I think that maybe some salty

Re: [AFMUG] Favorite DC wire c/o type

2020-06-15 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I almost always buy from PowerWerx just to avoid the 'fake copper' issue where you never know if the Amazon sellers are actually selling copper wire, or CCA they're passing off as copper.. On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 1:34 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > I have usually ordered red/black zip cord from

Re: [AFMUG] Cloud Hosted Mikrotik

2020-06-12 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
unications > http://www.wavedirect.net > (519)737-WAVE (9283) > > -- > *From: *"Forrest Christian (List Account)" > *To: *"af" > *Sent: *Thursday, June 11, 2020 4:06:47 PM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Cloud Hosted Mikrotik > >

Re: [AFMUG] Cloud Hosted Mikrotik

2020-06-11 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I have similar gripes with AWS. If you've got an application which was written for AWS and takes advantage of their infrastructure in the right way it isn't that bad. For instance, I'm seriously looking at using their serverless/IoT infrastructure for something I'm working on here, and the

[AFMUG] Looking for Technical Writer/Documentation Person

2020-06-09 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I'm hiring some sort of person to write documentation, spec sheets, etc. for PacketFlux. I've been down this path a few times over the years with no luck, having hired various people over the years with never getting any actual usable work product. It's time to try again. I know a few people

Re: [AFMUG] OT: UPS delay

2020-06-04 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Actually it looks like it took 24 hours for the truck to move between Farmingdale, NY and Hodgkins, IL. I'm assuming that UPS decided it wasn't safe to move it so they let it sit somewhere for an extended period of time. On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 3:51 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) <

Re: [AFMUG] OT: UPS delay

2020-06-04 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
> > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > -- > *From: *"Forrest Christian (List Account)" > *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" > *Sent: *Thursday, June 4, 2020 3:50:17 PM > *Subject: *[AFMUG] O

[AFMUG] OT: UPS delay

2020-06-04 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Here's a new one: [image: image.png] 2020 is getting old really fast. -- - Forrest -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] OT drone

2020-06-02 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
A slight aside... There's a commercial drone operator license... probably needed for this type of work. Curious if you've looked at how that interacts with a pilot's license - since the drone license is basically a (very) small portion of the pilot's license stuff. I mean mainly if you have

Re: [AFMUG] Documenting logical paths

2020-05-28 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I've always been a fan of self-documenting configuration, code, etc. The idea of maintaining a second document which somehow has to stay in sync with what is in the network is not realistic. Worse, it can lead you down the wrong path when the documentation says one thing and it's configured

Re: [AFMUG] Ot: yum

2020-05-28 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Add some Vienna sausage pieces and then you've got something. Actually the tater tots with cheese and butter sound yummy (without the vienna sausages) On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 9:14 PM Steve Jones wrote: > > On Wed, May 27, 2020, 10:12 PM Steve Jones > wrote: > >> This is a bowl of melted

Re: [AFMUG] OT Dang, not normal

2020-04-26 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I'm going to add this to this discussion: We still don't know the denominator of how many cases there actually are. Or even how many digits are in that number. If you take the 'confirmed cases' today worldwide and divide it by the deaths, this results in a 7% fatality rate for *confirmed*

Re: [AFMUG] 5.9 extension?

2020-04-14 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Apparently $5 isn't enough anymore, inflation you know... On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 8:14 PM wrote: > I used to be pretty good at slipping the door man or hostess some green to > get to the front of the line. > For the past 5-10 years they do not seem to be agreeable to that anymore. > One place

Re: [AFMUG] TOWAIR and ASR for existing tower

2020-04-14 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Also, remember this is based on flat ground, if you have a slope away from the airport, you'll find it is either higher or lower based on the relative ground elevation. The location of our main office/router/core is actually above the glide slope, because the ground slopes up enough from the end

Re: [AFMUG] Edge Router Options

2020-04-14 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
MODE includes 3 Fan Trays and 2 Power > Supplies > > MX204-R > > JNP204/MX204 Fixed 1 RU System -R MODE includes 3 Fan Trays and 2 Power > Supplies > > > > > > Differences: > > > > > > *From:* AF *On Behalf Of *Forrest Christian > (List Ac

Re: [AFMUG] Edge Router Options

2020-04-14 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
all the edge of the network when you are calling your core > the edge? > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 6:47 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < > li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > >> Is there a reference somewhere that describes which options are needed >> for what on the MX204?

Re: [AFMUG] Edge Router Options

2020-04-14 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Is there a reference somewhere that describes which options are needed for what on the MX204? I've been eyeing one for the edge for several months now, and it's getting to the point where we probably need to pull the trigger sooner rather than later. It looks like for a edge device I might only

Re: [AFMUG] TOWAIR and ASR for existing tower

2020-04-14 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Part of the ASR is frequency coordination with the airport. As long as you're not actually causing a hazard to air traffic they'll most likely approve it. If they don't approve it, I'm not sure what the process is. However at 45-50 ft, the chances of them caring about the height is so close to

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Bean & Cheese Burrito Filling?

2020-04-10 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
eese... > Enjoy...and use real tortillas, corn or flour... > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, 5:16 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < > li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > >> Over the years I've built up a set of recipes that are as good or better >> than what I can get e

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Bean & Cheese Burrito Filling?

2020-04-09 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
just use black beans out of the can. We will season them with green > chilies, cayenne, and garlic. Choose your own heat. I also like to add rice > that we cook with a little bullion. > > bp > > > > On 4/9/2020 4:15 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: > > O

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Bean & Cheese Burrito Filling?

2020-04-09 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
> > > > On 4/9/2020 4:15 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: > > Over the years I've built up a set of recipes that are as good or better > than what I can get elsewhere. Usually starting with a recipe which is in > the ballpark, and then tweaking it until it's to my

[AFMUG] OT: Bean & Cheese Burrito Filling?

2020-04-09 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Over the years I've built up a set of recipes that are as good or better than what I can get elsewhere. Usually starting with a recipe which is in the ballpark, and then tweaking it until it's to my liking. What continues to evade me is Burrito Filling. I asked on here a few months ago for

Re: [AFMUG] OT masks

2020-04-07 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I would have probably said something like "I'm wearing this for *your* benefit *not* mine. Don't call me a chicken for protecting your life.". On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 8:23 PM wrote: > No, sorry. The redneck and his woman were not wearing masks. > > *From:* Matt Hoppes > *Sent:* Tuesday,

Re: [AFMUG] OT masks

2020-04-07 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Bozeman is absolutely the place you don't want to be in Montana right now. https://montana.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=7c34f3412536439491adcc2103421d4b ~ 30 cases per 10K..population. Not as bad as some of the hotspots, but it's definitely where this is starting to get out

Re: [AFMUG] Not saying it's Aliens but...

2020-04-06 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Wimps. I can't tell you how many bottle rockets I launched when I was younger by holding the stick loosely in one hand and lighting it with a lighter in the other one. Ala.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPDZcdofOk8 You also could just buy the packs at the small town grocery store. Still

Re: [AFMUG] AT microcells

2020-04-03 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
On their website: "AT has discontinued sales of new AT MicroCells. You can use Wi-Fi Calling to talk and text over an active Wi-Fi connection where it’s hard for a strong cellular signal to reach." ( From https://www.att.com/att/microcell/ ) I recently switched from postpaid to prepaid on our

Re: [AFMUG] RackInjector Reboot

2020-03-31 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
You can't reboot via SNMP because SNMP doesn't support write currently. We have on our todo list a special URL you can query with a passsword to cause a reboot without needing the full web interface to load, but it's not going to be in a very near-term release. It will actually appear in the

[AFMUG] Porn for Chuck

2020-03-31 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
https://youtu.be/eIcLvF2C8eM?t=833 (Link to start of undressing part) -- - Forrest -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] OT new project

2020-03-31 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Air Compressor, Accumulator. Large fast solenoid. On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:17 PM wrote: > I need to launch a large sound impulse down a pipe. Thinking of a starter > pistol. Banging on the side of the pipe is not good enough. > Need a loud pop that I can do over and over. Whatever makes

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Price Gouging

2020-03-27 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Would this be related to FirstNet, which I understand is mostly an AT thing? On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 3:23 PM Matt Hoppes < mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: > We are doing it with one of the county governments we service. > > They probably have an arrangement to use ATT or something.

Re: [AFMUG] OT Preppers

2020-03-17 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
The amount of hoarders probably depends on where you are in the hysteria curve. If messaging applicable to a local area indicates that people should stay home for a while, the stores are going to be very busy until everyone stocks up, then empty, and somewhat back to normal. I'm sure population

Re: [AFMUG] [ External ] Re: Cambium Webinar tomorrow

2020-03-17 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
t Animal Farm since it was held at the Utah State >>> Fairpark... >>> you used to join us and speak about the history, etc. I miss that. >>> >>> In any case, we've virtualized it this year. As such, we'll record it >>> and >>> post it to our forum. >&

[AFMUG] Cambium Webinar tomorrow

2020-03-17 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I just registered for the cambium "Animal Farm" webinar, however it's at 8 central which is 7am my time. Does anyone know if they record these for later playback? I'm not particularly thrilled about getting up that early, considering I've been on the "go to bed at 4am" schedule recently. -- -

Re: [AFMUG] OT Aintcha glad

2020-03-16 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
. -forrest On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 5:12 PM Chuck McCown wrote: > Now might be a good time to buy. If I had pre drop money I would buy > Tesla right now. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 16, 2020, at 4:42 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) < > li...@packetflux.com> wr

Re: [AFMUG] OT Aintcha glad

2020-03-16 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Our county decided that bars/restaurants/gyms/etc will close. Basically people congregate. The restaurants/fast food places can stay open, but can't have anyone eating there. On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 4:45 PM Seth Mattinen wrote: > On 3/16/20 2:37 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > > My county has

Re: [AFMUG] OT Aintcha glad

2020-03-16 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I'm now really really really glad I decided to wait to dump a big chunk of change into the index funds. On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 1:19 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > Unfortunately we all probably have customers who own or work at bars, > restaurants, hotels or airlines. Or whose kids are home from

Re: [AFMUG] OT Virus

2020-03-09 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Let me see If I can agree with what I think you're saying: 1) Currently we're pre-selecting for people who are in a hospital with something looking like nCov and which got tested. We don't currently know how many people have it but didn't get tested and as such isn't counted as an infected

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Corona-fu

2020-03-04 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
This is not good news: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/03/who-says-coronavirus-death-rate-is-3point4percent-globally-higher-than-previously-thought.html On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 8:56 PM wrote: > Wow, that is sad. Really brings the whole situation home. > > -Original Message- > From: Bill

Re: [AFMUG] OT prepping

2020-03-04 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
even had a 'must buy 3 to get the deal' special on water at the front door with a big pile of water. The only thing which is completely sold out everywhere is hand sanitizer. -forrest On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 5:03 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > I'm not

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