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vogelchr, 3 months ago to random

IT archaeology, today an information display in the Eurocity 194 (Zürich-München).
It got hung in a reboot loop.

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vogelchr, 3 months ago to random

Washing-machine repair. Quite a carnage in the VFD (variable frequency drive) section that drives the main motor. All IGBTs are shot (short between all three pins), and most of the 2nd-stage drivers/diodes also went out. No idea what created this mess...

vogelchr, 9 months ago to animals

#Qualitätskatze #CatsOfMastodon packing for #cccamp23

• socks
• underpants
• t-shirts
• cat
…

vogelchr, 10 months ago to random

Question for the experts on electricity… this one is still good, isn’t it? 😉

{yes, I did. it, it was my fault, I should have known, but for this one-off experiment it was actually fine…}

vogelchr, 10 months ago to animals

#Qualitatskatze #CatsOfMastodon

T'Pau the Bengal Cat walking on a gravel path, towards the camera. Grass on both sides of the path, a forest in the background, out of focus.
Spock the Bengal cat standing on a logged tree trunk, looking towards the left. In the background, out of focus, a few trees and the facade of a house.

vogelchr, 11 months ago to random

Compiling geant4 <https://geant4.web.cern.ch/>, and that's probably a completely reasonable set of command-line arguments for c++ (all 12'000 characters of it...) according to some people...