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ZL2TOY

ZL2TOY What is that? ZL2TOY is a ham radio callsign. In fact it's not just any callsign, it's my father-in-laws former callsign and my current amateur radio operator callsign. After years of threating to do it, I finally went to a Ham Cram weekend and took the test to become

CoolerMaster

CoolerMaster Pi Case 40

CoolerMaster Pi Case 40 - A case of buyer beware.

Traefik

Traefik All the Things

If you followed my Containerize All the Things post, you know I’ve moved my entire home server workflow to Docker. There were a few reasons for this, but most of all because it made it incredibly easy to move everything or have everything backed up in case of a

ISS

Ariss ISS SSTV December 2019

From December 28th 2019 11:00 UTC to January 1st 2020 18:20 UTC the International Space Station did a commemorative SSTV broadcast for 3 Russian Cosmonauts that died this year. Those three are Alexi Leonov, Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jähn. I was lucky enough to be able to pull

HomeServer

Containerize All the Things

For quite a while, our house has used a server to host all of our media as well as some other items. There are a great many advantages to this, as it allows easy control over our movies, TV, music, comics, eBooks etc… Ever since the server was first built

NZ

Budget 2019 I Was Wrong

Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash I admit it, I was wrong. In my last post, I wrote about how in-probable it was that the 2019 NZ Budget hack was just due to someone using the search engine on the website. Well I was wrong. I had expected the IT team

NZ

2019 NZ Budget

There has been a whole lot happening here in NZ in the past 24 or so hours. You see the 2019 budget for NZ is meant to be released tomorrow (Thursday), but was apparently leaked by the opposition party on Tuesday. This has led to a lot of speculation, name

Fibre

Final Fibre Update

I realized today that I hadn’t given an update on my fibre saga in quite some time. After going back and forth with BigPipe, I ended up cancelling their service as was shown in a previous post. There were quite a few reasons for this, however the biggest one

RTL-SDR

Tracking Planes

Tracking some planes 🛩️ using an SDR and homemade antenna Over Christmas this past season, I spent quite a bit of time with my in-laws. While down there my father in law mentioned he was having issues getting his RTL-SDR dongle to work properly on his new laptop, and asked if

Christmas

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas I hope you have a Merry Christmas 🎄 and a Happy New Year wherever you are reading this. Have a safe and happy holiday season. Cheers!

Fibre

A Ray of Hope

Wait, a ray of hope? What? But, I thought this dream was over? Alas my good reader, it’s not. Thanks to the people at the Chorus NZ twitter account, I’ve been given some hope. A beam of light in the darkness. This is the email I received: Hi

Fibre

Fibre NZ the Post Mortem

This is it, the end. It’s all over, nothing more to say about it. The dream has ended. After dealing with this abysmal process for a month, I’ve given up. Being told time and again, that this is an “easy process” and everything will be smooth, I’m

Fibre

Fibre NZ a Horror Story

I’ve been living here in New Zealand for about 7 years now. In that time I’ve found a lot to love, and some to hate. Unfortunately, this story is about something that’s turned into a hate. Welcome to Fibre NZ: A Horror Story (in X parts since

Trish

Like a Sucker Punch out of Left Field

Like a sucker punch out of left field Something has been bothering me a lot lately. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I haven’t been sleeping well lately (which isn’t really that unusual), I’ve been scatterbrained (again, not that unusual) and really just couldn’