What do I carry every day? Tools that I have found to be handy for me to carry all the time. The Ranger goes into work’s cable bag.
One day
I woke up earlier than usual, too many things on my mind. Packed yesterday’s dinner takeaway boxes into a plastic bag for lunch. Grabbed a box of SFP 1000BaseT to pass to the contractor. Rushed out to reach the customer…
Google Account
The Google Account is used for email, online storage, photos, passwords, navigation, videos etc Now if you are using one this service and accidentally violates the Terms Of Service (TOS), the whole account gets disabled. And you lose everything. With…
In Conversation 68
I was cooking claypot rice for lunch Son wandered into the kitchen and declared “If you need any help, you can look for my sister!”
In Conversation 67
The fluorescent light in the toilet died, and I replaced it with a standby tube. I bought an LED drop-in replacement 12W for the 22W tube. We turned the light on and off so much that the replacement was slowly…
Using a Torchlight
For the first time in years, I found myself in need of a torchlight. The LEDs on the core switch are too bright and I can’t see the port numberings. Dug into the cable bag and found the standby torchlight.…
Collecting model and serial numbers
Part of my daily work is collating model and serial numbers information. This is to generate the description for the delivery order. Some customers want it by site, which means inventory collection. After copying the text data and pasting into…
In Conversation 66
Me: “We should keep the peels from mandarin oranges” Dau: “For what?”
Exporting Google Photos to Immich
Exporting Google Photos to Immich as a form of 3-2-1 backup and to limit the impact if the Google account is disabled. Google Photos is an excellent photo storage and management service. The only downside is that it is difficult…
Installing Immich
Installing Immich involves installing Docker or Portainer first. I chose Docker because I wanted a lower overhead. I just installed and blindly click through. The errors threw me off a bit. Turns out the downloads were setup for a Linux…