A cheeky #blep from Jade this morning, as her contribution to #WhiskersWednesday.
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Graham Rossiter
@Cookies@mstdn.social
mastodon 4.7.2Autistic, SjS, Lymphoma, Mental Health: Self Harm/Domestic Abuse/Depression. LGBT+. Owned by Mischief, Jade & The Opalcat.
Politically very left-of-centre. Anti royalty. Pro femiinism. Pro immigration, Pro EU, Pro vaccination. Atheist. BLM.
Interests: Fountain pens/inks, Locksport.
Fossils, especially trilobites.
Tech: TCP/IP, Cisco R+S, Vintage large systems (UNIX, ICL VME, VAX/VMS & OpenVMS, dabbling with IBM MVS); Loves UNIX, likes *BSD, tolerates Linux, despises Ubuntoy.
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The Opalcat is taking a well-earned break after another gruelling non-stop work day.
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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).
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Mischief is looking forward to some hard-earned rest on this #WhiskersWednesday.
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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.
The Opalcat had some feisty opinions about last night's Sentry Box Duty shift change with Jade.
Jade says that she definitely hasn't just been kicking this mat around and that it was already like this.
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Throwback photo from 2021, not long after The Torment Twins - Jade and Mischief - had first adopted us.
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The Opalcat hath thomething thpecial to thay about thith warm theathon.
The Opalcat is working on her boxy #Tortitude technique again today.
Mischief and The Opalcat are having another busy day.
Recent photo of Completely Normal Jade being Completely Normal.
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As the #SamNeill tributes and compliments flood in - each one deserved - two things stand out. One is that Mr.Neill was warmly loved as someone generous & down-to-earth. The other is that he aged wonderfully. Always a handsome man, he let the grey hairs appear and he wore them so well. I look old. He looked distinguished and his demeanour only added to that dashing charm. He looked smarter with every passing day.
The world has lost one of its good guys today; one of its decent human beings.
The Opalcat, enjoying the wrapping paper surrounding the latest Clasicats toys... Jade seems less impressed.
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.
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 connection or maybe both. Annoying but glad it's solved.
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.
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.
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@bweller@mstdn.social It's particularly infuriating when it's a competent & well-researched content producer NetSplaining my mind to me. It's one thing to have a choppy & shouty tiktok-esque generico yelling my glands off over something planet-detonatingly exciting & urgent. I swipe away as soon as they start on that nonsense. I find it harder when I'm chilling with a playlist from someone I trust to be rational, factual & balanced, only for their next contribution to adopt that same patronising tone.
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'm generally pretty stupid but I do have my specialisms and expert knowledge.
Adhoc photo from my amateur #fossil #trilobite collection.
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 News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx268zxgx1no
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 ago.
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@666k9s@mas.to Our three owners love their Catio. Until we had it installed a little over a year ago, they were all 100% indoor girls. I had some initial reservations as Jade has CH and is not too steady on her feet, but I was glad to be proven wrong. Now we just need to work out how to solve the problem of them destroying the wooden framing posts that serve as an inviting supersize scratching toy. All their christmases came at once when they discovered those posts. They're such vandals!
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@jeridansky@sfba.social She does good work. Here are The Owners' latest three crinkly playmates, delivered in the last couple of days.
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.
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I had another try with less punctuation and a simpler series of questions and statements. Poor Eliza still didn't quite convince me somehow.
Even in the early 1980s, Eliza and friends were not quite making my pulse quicken or send my excitement level soaring gloriously into the stratosphere. In 2026 it is still a historically interesting diversion, but AI has come a long way.
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 typically what I did previously.