That is all.

I’ve replaced all my shitty EzViz cameras with TP-Link cameras.

1. You can configure TP-Link’s via a web interface.
2. No App bullshit required.
3. No QR scanning that doesn’t work.
4. Their ONVIF implementation actually works.

Goodbye EZViz, and good riddance. I will not be missing you.

In January of 2014, I built a new, proper firewall, because all the previous franken-machines I used before had hard-drive issues, and I really needed a stable development server.

This machine is still going today, 10 years later, and aside from the fact that it’s limited to 16Gb of DDR3 RAM, it’s still a core part of my home lab.

But the time came to change it from it’s home-made angle-iron “spider” platform to something a bit more modern, and dust-proof.

The new living space for “spider”

And what it used to be mounted on, steampunk style.

It was pretty challenging to find a chassis that accomodates a horizontally mounted mini-ITX board, but Lian-Li came through. My big concern was the massive Zalmann heat pipe that I had installed initially, because I wanted the system as quiet as possible, but it fit perfectly into the Lian-Li PC-QR36W I acquired.

I can’t believe this machine has served me so well for 10 years, and it’s still not bad in terms of performance.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

If you like perfume, and don’t want to pay an arm and a leg for good fragrances, check out my wifes’ Ameru.co.za perfume selection.

Some remixes are better than the original version. Thanks Ruben 😉

Voyage · New Order – Blue Monday (Voyage Edit)