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  #3465703 28-Feb-2026 16:42
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Rikkitic:

 

networkn:

 

I am off to warmer climes just as the weather closes in here, so I get to skip the very start of Autumn at least.

 

 

What a shame. You will miss our spectacular Indian Summer!

 

 

Can you compete with New England? 🙂

 

 





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  #3465707 28-Feb-2026 17:28
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I resisted getting a microwave in the kitchen for a long time, until last week.

 

I'm not entirely convinced by the test results with my own cooking, but I agreed to it for reheating conventionally prepared meals and defrosting ingredients—definitely not for convenience food—and let's not even get started on that industrial junk (banned). Quite simply, just a microwave function, no air fryer, no grill, no steam cooking.

 

Now I have to figure out how to modify the newly purchased silver colored model (for UniFi fans which I am NOT 😁) with mounting brackets, since its width and depth make it a perfect fit for a 19" server rack, and the oven door even has a limiter at the 90° opening angle.

 

 

 

 

(Although this is actually true, fitting it into a 19" rack is a joke, but who knows what else I might come up with?) 😁

 

Further uses:

 

- Secure mobile phone storage during confidential meetings (pls remove power plug before use 😁)

 

- Final hard disk drive erasure

 

- Coffee warmer





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  #3465712 28-Feb-2026 18:16
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Tinkerisk:

 

I resisted getting a microwave in the kitchen for a long time, until last week.

 

...

 

Now I have to figure out how to modify the newly purchased silver colored model (for UniFi fans which I am NOT 😁) with mounting brackets, since its width and depth make it a perfect fit for a 19" server rack, and the oven door even has a limiter at the 90° opening angle.

 

..

 

 

 

(Although this is actually true, fitting it into a 19" rack is a joke, but who knows what else I might come up with?) 😁

 

...

 

 

To be fair, based on your extensive posting history, if there ever was to be a poll on which Geekzoner was most likely to have a server rack in their kitchen, you would get my vote. 🙂





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  #3465717 28-Feb-2026 18:42
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floydbloke:

 

To be fair, based on your extensive posting history, if there ever was to be a poll on which Geekzoner was most likely to have a server rack in their kitchen, you would get my vote. 🙂

 

 

Once I was tempted … 😉





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  #3465734 28-Feb-2026 21:27
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Mine is in what was once a food pantry that I busted the back thru to the under stairs cupboard. But anything server like in there is too noisy so its just used to house obsolete rack mount gear now.





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  #3465771 1-Mar-2026 11:18
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Politely asking an engineer if he still has a detailed CAD model of a car engine from years back... and lo and behold.





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  #3465842 1-Mar-2026 19:10
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Ten days ago it was -10°C and this weekend it was +19°C! Spring is just around the corner (but experience shows that, due to our local weather phenomena here, it's best not to plant pre-grown chili plants outdoors before May 24th to be on the safe side).





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  #3465849 1-Mar-2026 19:39
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Tinkerisk:

 

Ten days ago it was -10°C and this weekend it was +19°C! Spring is just around the corner (but experience shows that, due to our local weather phenomena here, it's best not to plant pre-grown chili plants outdoors before May 24th to be on the safe side).

 

 

Well, here in Wellington ten days ago it was 12c and now it's 12c.

 

Great summer, this one was /s





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  #3465874 2-Mar-2026 07:35
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GZ FUG being applied.





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  #3466570 3-Mar-2026 19:17
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Yesterday we experienced a severe DDoS attack on our services, albeit indirectly. The upstream VPS, which only acts as a relay and VPN tunnel, was targeted, forcing the hosting provider to implement defensive measures for its infrastructure.

 

Since we're not exactly world-famous and our customer base is manageable, I was able to easily maintain operations via an independent standby fallback domain. I was beginning to think my time-consuming and costly hobby of a little personal online resilience paranoia had been a waste of money, since nothing serious had happened so far—but no! 🙂👍

 

The average internet user is largely unaware of the constant hybrid threat, but public administrations, hospitals, and critical infrastructure are under constant attack from these often foreign, state-sponsored actors.





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  #3467563 7-Mar-2026 16:26
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Two ordered MacNetBook neo at son’s student price. As an admin’s netbook, it will also be stripped of Apple's cloudware and replaced with Nextcloud and independent services as far as possible. 🙂





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  #3467667 7-Mar-2026 20:50
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Replacing the broken wing mirror cover on my car and taking all of several seconds.





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  #3468021 9-Mar-2026 09:12
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The official tourist guide for Blue Mountains, NSW featuring a guy with an Abel Tasman National Park shirt.


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  #3468513 10-Mar-2026 16:17
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The look on my bank advisor's face after I told him that if I received a single promotional email in a month despite all my cancellations, the bank would lose me as a customer.





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  #3470614 15-Mar-2026 17:32
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I have been watching a series on SBS using my excellent DNS proxy. The day before yesterday and earlier it was working fine. Yesterday suddenly it wasn't. I used my VPN instead because I didn't have the energy to try to troubleshoot it in the evening. Today I decided to find out what was going on. After some routine steps I checked my DNS settings. Somehow they were cleared and I was back to my ISP default. I restored them and now everything is fine again. 

 

The point of this post is that I was pleased to be able to locate the problem so quickly in my old age. That is what made me smile. More and more I just get lost and it is reassuring to discover that I can still do this kind of thing. However, I have no idea whatsoever how the DNS settings got wiped in the first place. I am sure it wasn't anything I did. 

 

 





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