• Re Truck in last shot: War Eagle!

    I live 20 minutes south of Tennessee; lots of things to take pictures of up there and I've been neglecting my big camera. And I need a day off and the weather is spectacular right now.

  • Depends on what definition of "camera" are we using. In the broad sense anything with an image sensor or shutter I have (Canon 50D, iPhone 5s, Raspberry Pi Camera board v1 and v2, Logitech c920 usb webcam, iPad Mini, Macbook iSight, Dlink IP Cameras (2), Amcrest PTZ HD IP Camera) so 10. Classical cameras I have the 50D, the iPhone, and the Raspis that will take a nice still shot without me doing much configuration. :)

  • We are one of those "don't label it, you'll only make it angry" groups. That said I've labeled the ports on the panels with a <room number>-<type>-ABCDEF type scheme. It worked really well for me with a small team of people but in this current job it just doesn't get done.

    One of the packet pusher or some other network podcast talked about cataloging the patch cables and labeling them on both ends before you put them in production. You just get the number off one end and find its corresponding end in the switch port or patch panel side. You track the patch cable instead of tracking the port. <Cable Serial #A1: Switchport 2/3, patch port 203-Data-B> kinda thing. I like this because you don't have to trace cable through a tray with 500 other similar/like cables to find the two ends of one.

    I've done something like that on a small scale in my office where I put a strip of colored electrical tape on the end of each cable that comes out of the 10 port switch in my office. I can just match it up to the Blue/Yellow to its mate on my lab table 20 feet away and know which port I need to work with on my switch and not accidently unplug one of the other blue cables that is running a beta server doing something.

    At a minimum I do not think you are fully going to get away from a spreadsheet or database with a port/cable/port setup.

  • Same. Just get a shower and clean up a bit and I can make it through most things. I do isolate myself at the office a bit if I can because I get acidic at times when I'm down. No one needs nor wants me dragging them down into this hell with me but they do want me physically in the office for some reason.

  • Adding features/bugs to a python script that scrapes the website for my thermostat for the temp and settings on the thermostat then pulls the temp from a DHT22 attached to the host (a Raspberry Pi 2) and logs them in a file.

    Debating RRD or some other time sequence database and graphics producing mechanism or just just throwing the recorded data into sqllite(or something else) for historical purposes. RRD is something I use a lot at work but I've never had to configure it and while useful it seems limited in the quality of its output. Just kinda stuck choosing a tool at the moment.