Today, a companion for the last 15 years passed away.

Dear Scooter.

I’m going to miss you you bugger.

Scooter was the only survivor of a fire in one of the outbuildings of our property where he and 4 other Daschies were sleeping.

He bailed at the first smell of smoke and woke us to the disaster.

He also bit me on the lip when I tried to interfere with his conjugal visits one night whilst working late. I learned a valuable lesson that day. Never blink when accosting a Dachshund going about  his “business”.

It kinda solidified the mutual “don’t mess with me” respect we’ve had over the years. He knew, and I knew.

He came to us as a cast-away from a Vet, as his owner had decided that he didn’t have “show-dog” temperament, and wanted him euthanased.

I came home after he’d been “visiting” us for a few hours and decreed that he was going to stay, and thus he did — until today.

Best frigging non-show-dog frumpy attitude I’ve seen in a dog all my life.

Along with Ruben, Vincenzia, Delphi, Turbo, Pascal (x2), Perl, Liquourice, Mouse, Junior, Pedro, and all the other beings that have shared your existence over the years : I salute you.

(Scooter was named after the first commercial search spider bot on the internet, run by Altavista)

I bought four HikVision (DS-2CD2032-I) IP camera’s today.

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 5 (v6l)
BogoMIPS : 526.25
Features : swp half fastmult edsp java
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 6TEJ
CPU variant : 0x1
CPU part : 0xb36
CPU revision : 5

Hardware : Coconut
Revision : 13ec300a
Serial : 0000000000000000


Linux is now frigging everywhere, even inside a R2500 IP camera the size of an orange.

I can RTSP stream from it, ls the file system, tell it to mount remote storage via FTP, or NFS, and a plethora of things never thought possible with something as small as that.

I’m rocked.

And in other news, PLC (or broadband over powerline) still works. It’s so much easier to just plugin to a powerline than have to run Ethernet cables.

It truly is an easy home solution.

I’m ecstatic to point at Internet Solutions’ new cloud offerings, powered by Neology of course.

Awesome project, and great experience.

Openstack rocks.

Seeing as google favours my blog, I’m going to do some spam, that the spammers try to get linked onto this site.

For all your small and medium enterprise Internet Needs, checkout IS Ignite, by Internet Solutions.

http://www.isignite.co.za

Powered of course, by Neology.

Damn idiots keep thinking that I’ll approve their “essays for sale” blogspam.

They will now simply be greeted with the simple message:

Fuck off with your essay you fuck.

Whenever they match certain regexes.

I hope it keeps em entertained.