Most people I know who have a Canon DSLR also know about the el-cheapo and really quite nice EF 50mm f/1.8 II.
It’s pretty obvious that it’s a fragile lens, but I hadn’t seen photos of it broken before. Danielle sent me this link to a food porn (SFW) blog which includes photos of someone’s toppled XT / 350D and the broken lens.
Shiny serif console font on OpenBSD 4.2 (macppc).OpenBSD 4.2 (macppc) on the console (framebuffer) on a Powermac G4 AGP has a nice, shiny, traditional UNIX-y hardware (think Sun) serif font. Normally I don’t like serif fonts, but for some reason I really like this.
Of course, the Open Firmware stuff is still a nice, small monospaced font, and the bootloader is dark grey text on a light grey screen in the same font as OF.
Hopefully once I have this box installed I’ll have a serial port to be used as the console, and the video card will be removed, but I still have to wait for the G4Port to be delivered. It replaces the modem and provides a mini DIN 9 Apple-style serial port. I’ll be replacing the mini DIN 9 cable / connector with a DB9 which will be fitted in place of the modem port on the back of the chassis. This will be wired crossed over so that a straight-through cable will provide a console.
Oh, and tonight I was able to confirm that the bridge works as I want. So, in the end I’ll have:
gem0: public interface
fxp0–fxp7: bridge0, acting as a switch
fxp0 will also have an IP and be the gateway / DNS / whatever for the internal network.
fxp7 may be used as a span port for troubleshooting, but I’m not sure of this yet.
A UPnP & NAT-PMP implementation that integrates with pf is interesting to me. I may very well try it, but it seems… potentially questionable.
Do any of you know what is a typical timeout for the address cache on a switch? After some initial problems with the default 240 second address timeout, I’ve found that dropping the timeout back to 5 seconds clears up the problems I was having with moving machines to other ports.
That said, 5 seconds seems a bit low to me, as every time a machine starts to talk after that there will be a brief broadcast to all interfaces. So, I’m thinking 30 seconds, but I’m not sure…
Any idea what the default is on commercial network gear? I’m thinking that Cisco stuff is five minutes, but that seems a little low to me…
I’m going to hide this behind a cut because it’s just a bit of bragging / dorkyness about having lots of NICs in one box:
OpenBSD 4.2 (macppc) on a Powermac G4 AGPOpenBSD on PPC, specifically
Well, at least it’s now booting…
It might be nice to shove a bunch of four-port NICs in here and use it as a firewall / hub / bridge / switch thing. Then I could do what is essentially per-port / per-device monitoring and firewalling. I think it would work well to have the Airport Extreme on one port, my Mac Pro on another, the workbench on one, the Xbox 360 on yet another.
I wonder if this thing can run without a video card…
This would be good for ACK prioritization which would really help me out when loads of photos are uploading. Hmm…
Oh, also, the nifty real framebuffer, high-res, serif font is kinda neat.
I think next I’ll try and clean it out (it’s full of cat dander), get it booting from flash, and get the noisy fans sorted out. Right now it’s only pulling 54 watts, but I’d love to get that even lower if it’s going to be a firewall.
Hmm, if I got an Airport card for it (anyone have one of these — the old, original one?) I could also have an open AP, with monitoring, which only has access to the public internet. That’d be handy.
Am I the only person who really doesn’t care for Instructables?
I mean, the concept is good (sharing project ideas step by step), but the execution is rotten. It’s a mishmash of external ads, ads for other pages on the site, comments, hard to save / reference photos (which are often too low res), and YouTube-ish comments.
Uggh.
2006 Honda Civic Cabin Air Filter after 46,344 MilesWhile removing the Honda Music Link cable (head unit to interface box cable, specifically) from my car so that I may list the HML on eBay tonight, I happened to have the glove box flipped down. Remembering that the cabin air filter is back there and knowing that I’d never changed it, I decided to give it a look.
I’m really glad I did. After 46,344 miles of driving in all sorts of conditions, it was pretty dirty. As you can see there was everything from cotton wood seeds to a dead bee, an odd lump of something, and loads of road dust packed into it. Even the back side of it looked dirty. Oops.
Oh, yeah, and when brand new those filters are brilliant white.
Here (full res) is a photo of it straight on, if you want to try and figure out what all the gunk in it really is. It looks worse from that angle because the edges of the fins are completely dirty, but the sides of some of them are still (relatively) clean.
Gah. I’d forgotten what a chore it is to open a Civic’s dash, particularly in cold weather when the clips are harder.
At least I’m now half done. The old Honda Music Link cable has been removed from my dash, and now I can begin the process of selling a second one (my first, original one). Then I’ll be completely done with any HML-related work.
Working Panasonic PV-D4743S Found In TrashTwo weeks ago I mentioned a DVD player / VCR combo I found in the trash. As I thought, it works great. This afternoon I gave it a test, and both the DVD and VCR halves work great. While there isn’t a remote, it doesn’t really seem to be needed. Or, one could easily purchase a universal remote to use with it.
So, that said, would any of you like it? Obviously, you’d have to come get it, but I’d like to be rid of it. I don’t have a need for it, but hopefully someone I know does. And yes, I mean actually use, not just have to add to a pile of other stuff.
If no one here wants it I’ll just take it to the Salvation Army. I’m sure they can find someone who could make good use of it.
Anyway, let me know if you want it…
