Someone on one or another of the social media feeds I half-heartedly track nowadays mentioned having the iconic Jurassic Park theme in their head for whatever reason, and suddenly in my head I heard Dinah Shore singing.
Look, I’m just sayin’. Once you hear it, you can’t unhear it.
Last week I completed production on the second-to-last thing I need to make all four Phase 4 shipment products. This week I completed the actual facilities which are manufacturing all four Phase 4 shipment products. Just a few hours of work… if you don’t think too long or hard about the fact that I’m at 219 hours into this save and there’s about an hour to go before I pull the lever to send everything skyward.
But I’m going to rest on my laurels for a moment anyway.
(more…)Every few years over the past entire quarter damned century I find myself wrestling with how to monitor non-Windows devices. Every time I try using some form of SNMP-based system. Every time I end up with something either barely-workable or non-functional.
This go-around came about because after we left ConnectWise Automate for NinjaOne (née Ninja RMM) we lost the ability to monitor our clients’ NAS devices via SNMP. Let’s be clear: Automate’s implementation was solidly in the “barely-workable” category… but it did work. Just, barely.
Yes, we made the change-over last year. Yes, I’m just now getting to this. We’ve had a lot going on.
I went into this project with more than the usual amount of optimism. NinjaOne very specifically notes that they support QNAP and Synology devices in their NMS (network monitoring system), so how hard could this possibly be to get working?
So, spoilers: It doesn’t work.
(more…)With last week’s power plant completion I was nearly at the point of kicking off production of the various Phase 4 space elevator shipment parts.
Nearly.
The only remaining part not already in production was the modest but expensive Electromagnetic Control Rod. So, armed with a few key alternate recipes and the knowledge of exactly where I wanted to construct the factory, I set to work… after complicating the task by doing some math and making a big decision.
(more…)Back at the start of the year I lamented the failure to launch my originally-planned Rocket Fuel power plant, a mess caused by not paying attention to available unlocked material recipes.
I’m happy to state that the original site’s power plant is now online and on track to running at maximum capacity. Why did I bother, though, when the Blue Crater’s power plant worked out just fine?
Did it though?
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