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  The Opalcat had some feisty opinions about last night's Sentry Box Duty shift change with Jade. #cats #CatsOfMastodon #Tortitude

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  The march of progress... I've taken delivery of a #Cisco Nexus N5K-C5624Q switch for my home lab. It has twelve 40 Gbps QSFP ports. My first exposure to ethernet was 10Base2 and 10Base5 in all its CSMA/CD glory. This was in the early 1990s. Cheapernet/Yellow String, T-pieces, terminators, 3C503 & NE2000 cards... I thought there'd never be a need to go beyond 10 Mbps. How times change.

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  Frustrating problem solved. Recently received #Cisco Nexus N5K-C5624Q switch was dead-on-arrival, "DIMMs are not present in the system" and "ERROR: MRC failed". Very little online info as these aren't meant to be user-serviceable. Good suggestion from seller, hadn't considered this. Possibly dead CMOS battery. I've swapped the coin cell & reseated the 8GB DIMM. It now boots normally. Still a mystery if it was the battery, DIMM c...

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  Throwback photo from 2021, not long after The Torment Twins - Jade and Mischief - had first adopted us. #cats #CatsOfMastodon #kittens

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  I haven't been near GNS3 since my #CCNA a few years ago, so I decided to refresh my memory. I'd forgotten how much fun it can be, even over working through its quirks and limitations. I put this basic topology together; four routers, two swouters and a pair of endpoint pseudo PCs. I configured a rudimentary single-area OSPF topology on it and verified everything had the correct reachability. Next will be modifications to implement address space efficiency. That's typicall...

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  The Tumultuous Trio, comprising The Opalcat, Jade and her twin sister, Mischief, all of whom are hard at work as usual in celebration of Feisty Friday. #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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  The Opalcat hath thomething thpecial to thay about thith warm theathon. #mlem #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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  The Opalcat is working on her boxy #Tortitude technique again today. #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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  This is sad news. Sam Neill impressed me with his humility and modesty when he took to Twitter during the height of COVID, picking up his ukulele to pick up the spirits of the community around him. That was the action of a true gentleman and I mourn him today. May he rest in peace. Sam Neill, Jurassic Park actor, dies aged 78 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/crl1gk55rzet

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  That's another #Cisco router expanded & chonked out. This second hand 2921 came with a uck9 (voice) license. It now has the equivalent of a full 1Gbps 48 port PoE-capable 3560 layer 3 switch (making the parent device a swouter), quad FXO and FXS voice modules, a quad T1/E1 module, a dual smart serial module, a whole heap of DSP, 2.5GB RAM, dual Compact Flash cards and a partridge in a pear tree. If I decide to refresh my #CCNA then this sort of setup helps.

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  The latest desperate and sad attempt by the UK monarchy to appear fashionable and relevant. Plonk them in the TARDIS. I'd rather they were cast adrift in a boat with one oar, a compass, a pitcher of water, a box of cornflakes, 2 bowls, a map and an instruction leaflet on how to figure it out for themselves. Still, putting an artificial wooden relic inside an artificial wooden relic is a reasonable alternative for a quick publicity-grab, I suppose. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/...

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  The Opalcat, cuddling a Clasicats birb (and a derpy spider) for #TortieThursday. The birb is currently her best friend ever (if we ignore how she was savagely kicking its beak off 2 minutes earlier). #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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  A cheeky #blep from Jade this morning, as her contribution to #WhiskersWednesday. #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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  Jade says that she definitely hasn't just been kicking this mat around and that it was already like this. #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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  The Opalcat is taking a well-earned break after another gruelling non-stop work day. #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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  Mischief is looking forward to some hard-earned rest on this #WhiskersWednesday. #CatsOfMastodon #cats

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  TanTrump continues stomping its petulant feet on the world stage, deliberately provoking conflict with every word from its hatehole, its inept oafery and clueless grasp of reality sending the planet spiralling down towards World War Three. I'm not sure which is worse - the fuckstorm this useless moron continues to leave in its wake, or the fact a significant number of people actually voted to put this idiot back in charge. This is a screenshot of the BBC UK news mobile homepage minutes...

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  Bollocks. Utter and complete bollocks. TanTrump does NOT speak for the UK. Harry has at least a hypothetical fuzzy ability to do so, though not much TanTrump, though, is not from the UK. It has made statements against the UK. On a number of occasions it has spoken and acted in a manner not in keeping with that of a close ally or of a party to the cringeworthy 'special relationship' between us. Donald Trump says he speaks 'for the UK more than Prince Harry' - BBC...

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  Recent photo of Completely Normal Jade being Completely Normal. #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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  Jade enjoys a good #SillySit to start off her #caturday. #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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  The Opalcat, enjoying the wrapping paper surrounding the latest Clasicats toys... Jade seems less impressed. #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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  Mischief approves of the new Clasicats cow toy. #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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  We may think that A.I. is imperfect now, but Eliza might have something to say about that. (Yes, I was using punctuation because that's how humans write, and I was feeling mean. I doubt this conversation would have been much smarter without the punctuation as Eliza is *very* primitive.)

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  Modern social media content clickbait titles sometimes annoy me. The common style is to shout that some situation or historical event was "so much worse than you think". They scream about "ten things you didn't know about" blahblah. It's really quite insulting to tell your audience what they do and don't know, what they do and don't think. Maybe a lot of their viewers DON'T know about The Secret Thing, but some will. I&a...

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  Promising news on BBC site about a breakthrough ovarian #cancer treatment becoming available on our health service. Monoclonal Antibody (MAB) regimens aren't a new phenomenon overall. I'm guessing their already promising trajectory is advancing in efficacy & reducing collateral damage to non-cancerous cells. My chemo 24 years ago didn't involve MAB but, if and when I fall out of remission & my NHL returns, maybe I too will then receive MAB. https://www.b...

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  Adhoc photo from my amateur #fossil #trilobite collection.

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  Mischief and The Opalcat are having another busy day. #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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  Jade, world champion head-tilter. #cats #CatsOfMastodon