Category: I love the world…

Image credit: NASA Today, 40 years ago, the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the moon. Time to celebrate! Just in time for the anniversary the new Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter (LRO) sent home some images of the Apollo landing sites. Here is the original NASA imagery. So now it’s to wait for the Constellation Program… I’m curious if they will make it or if they will run out of money…

Listen and enjoy Thanks to the sharp eyes of Dr. G. I was able to correct my little error. Thanks – and apologies 😉

Yeah, today I was at the HamRadio, the international amateur (ham) radio convention! I don’t have a license (yet) but every year I am once again convinced to do the necessary exam *now*… 😉 However, at HamRadio there is always something new to discover. And the ham-Flea-Market is – also – always an attraction. But a special highlight every year is the stand of AAtiS, a german educational amateur radio club. They always have some part which (at least I) must have right away, like 1000µF / 400V Elkos or 1,3GBitS optical links… Needless to say, I went shopping…:

That’s the way I see it ;D jk XKCD

My Dad bought a fancy, configurable Gigabit-Switch today and I was all about to set it up. The old one had sporadic malfunctions and so I plugged all the wires in and ping <gateway> Rien ne vas plus In addition to that, my CPU-Load grew up to 100%, controllable by plugging or unplugging the ethernet-cable. “Hm” I thought and started a short diagnostic using Wireshark (which almost instantly crashed). The traffic consisted nearly completely from broadcasts coming from 192.168.1.214. I unplugged the corresponding cable but nothing happened. At some point I remembered that Mr. Schmid told us in a IT-lesson, that loops (a loop is when you connect 2 switchports directly) can cause such broadcast-storms. After that I remembered, that Spanning Tree was disabled in the switch so I started searching. I found a short yellow cable which apparently wanted