09:09 – Barbara is off to the gym this morning and a Friends of the Library meeting after lunch. I’m making up chemicals for forensic kits. This afternoon, we’ll fill bottles and build chemical bags.
One of the interesting things we’ve noticed about living in Sparta is that the black population, about 2% of the total, is completely integrated with the general population. In larger towns and cities, most blacks, from lower class to upper class, speak with at least vestiges of the “black accent”, which derives from Gullah. Here, the blacks we’ve encountered speak with the same accent as anyone else. I suspect that most of their families have lived in this area for generations.
10:27 – When I read articles about BLM, MoveOn.org, and other progressive scum engaging in violent “protests”, I often wonder why there’s never a right-wing sniper taking out their leadership. I can only assume that would-be snipers don’t want to waste a perfectly good rifle by throwing it away after the shooting to avoid giving the authorities ballistic evidence if they’re later caught with the rifle.
Which made me think of a specialty round that Remington introduced in the late 70’s called Accelerator. These were .224 bullets loaded in .30-06 cartridges, using a discarding sabot. I shot a few boxes of these back in the late 70’s. Their ballistics were similar to the .220 Swift, about 4,100 fps and very flat shooting. The fired bullets had no rifling marks on them, because the actual bullet never touched the rifling. A few years after their introduction, Remington discontinued the Accelerator rounds in .30-06 and .308, supposedly at the request of the federal government. I’m not sure when Remington started selling them again, but I see that they’re available new in at least .30-06, albeit at something like $2.25/round. Handloaders can buy just the sabots, and load their own.
As things continue going downhill, I could see shooting prog activists and leaders becoming a popular new form of big-game hunting. Of course, we’d then see protests from the animal rights movement.
That’s a lousy name for a group. It doesn’t make a good acronym, which should be the primary consideration in naming anything.
How about Friends of a Library, Friends of Our Library, or Friends of Underappreciated Librarians?
Using anything at all exotic will link it to you anyway. Then they start the data deep dive to see where you bought it and when, get the digital video of you in the store, pull the traffic camera, and toll tag tracking data, combine it with cell site data, and you find yourself behind bars. And if you go all ‘grey man’ before each instance, they point to the gaps in your ‘digital spore’ as circumstantial evidence and as evidence of deceitful intent.
Or they use the black box data from your car, or the ANPR data at parking lots, freeway on ramps, parking enforcement, interstate highways, and dozens of other places. Once they id you, they use the pollen on your vehicle, the mud spatter in your wheel wells, or any of hundreds of other things to tie you to the location.
The question is, how badly do they want you? If sufficiently badly, they will get you. They’re pulling up 4-10 yo video of people in nightclubs fer pete’s sake….
nick
I’ve probably been reading too much Tom Clancy, but aren’t there (i) good but inexpensive rifles that could be discarded after each use and (ii) rounds made of soft metal that’ll ruin the recipient’s day but will deform on impact to the extent that they won’t yield worthwhile ballistic data?
Because the right wingers have lives, or at least they have families to support and employers that need them.
I also played around with those Remington .30-06 Accelerator rounds, but in the early 80s when they were still making them. Very slick.
“I often wonder why there’s never a right-wing sniper taking out their leadership.”
We’re not there yet. And Mr. nick brings up good points, per usual. Remember that when there were radical pro-life shooters out there, the authorities mounted humongous hunting ops for months to find them. And even experienced woods guys will eventually tire out and break down under that kind of pressure. Shoot a BLM or prog leader/celeb now and we’ll have utter mayhem in the country again like we did with MLK. None of them have his long-term charisma and national fame, but that gets cancelled out by the instant innernet vids and chatter and the always-on tee-vee culture.
It’s probably possible to circumvent most, if not all, of the physical evidence issues Mr. nick mentions, but that gray man/digital spore gap thing is a serious problem. You need any trackers to believe that you’re in your usual space while you’re actually (very briefly) on-site to do your thing. Get in and get out really fast, which means you also need the detailed intel in advance. All this would take some very serious study.
We’ll start seeing street melon head shots when the situation deteriorates to low-intensity ethno-racial-class warfare in and around the cities. Assassinations, in the meantime, are very problematic for the reasons nick brings up.
WRT the above discussion, two words: 3D Printing.
Therefore, look forward to 3D printers and their feed stock to become regulated and “licensed” material. After all, the Feds require drones to be licensed.
I think you’d be very lucky to have ONE quick target of opportunity, like in Bracken’s novel. Even then, she flees the country shortly thereafter.
The only way I could see it working is if it were VERY common. One event, massive application of resources as the state must be seen to be doing something. 20, 30, 40 or more, and everyone gets away with it. It becomes just ‘part of the landscape.’ Or Do it in Chicago where the murder clearance rate is in the single digits. Do it in some non-obvious way. Do it like the C i A does and have a patsy ready…. Again, the goal is to NOT have them strongly motivated to find you.
Of course one problem, as our own F B I has discovered with its ongoing war against the mob, decapitation works to elevate less capable, less intelligent people into leadership roles (which in theory degrades the organization), but they are often more violent than their predecessors, with less impulse control. The citizenry suffers as a result. [added- this might be seen as a feature, not a bug.]
nick
@dadcooks,
Barrels are the problem. Making a long gun barrel is relatively hard. That’s why all these projects buy theirs….
Currently though, barrels are widely available.
If you are worried about the forensics, you could use an AR, and dump the barrel, firing pin, and extractor each time, just in case you dropped some brass. If they focus on you, you’re still cooked if you don’t have all those barrels you bought, or have believable stories about where they went.
I suppose you could own a gun store or pawn shop, use your inventory, then sell it. I’m pretty sure the mob already does that….
nick
(it’s one of the risks when buying used guns, albeit a vanishingly small risk for most buyers. Pookie doing a person to person deal in the hood? well, chances are much higher.)
More good points raised.
Either it becomes run-of-the-mill and a big yawn in the media, like inner-city violence is now (unless white cops shoot helpless black babies), and/or get an Oswald or James Earl Ray type to actually be on-site if not pulling the trigger. That would mean some organization, of course.
Then, sure, you get the next guy in line rising to command, as with ISIS and Al-Q. These often turn out be much more violent idiots, with the resulting mayhem out on the streets.
The longer-term goals should be to first wage psy-war against them and render their ideologies and “programs” a non-starter for the masses, and meanwhile building up a “shadow” government from ground-level to eventually just de facto take over. This sorta stuff takes decades, and the current Murkan zeitgeist does not admit of patience or long-term thought processes. We operate in the Immediate Present and nothing at all happened before we were born.
IMHO, the only things going in our favor are the absolute unsustainability of the financial house of cards and a vast population armed to the teeth with a historical record of cussedness and being slow to rile but very nasty enemies to mess with. Also the incompetence and imbecility of the government and all the new tech that comes out almost daily now that we have access to.
BTW, there are many good threads in the home gunmaking forums about the issues with making barrels. A little google, and you’ll get a good feel for the problems.
At a certain level, it’s barely an iron age issue. I remember somewhere in my youth, colonial Williamsburg probably, watching the gunsmiths making barrels by forge welding 8 strips of metal together around a rod. I think they then pulled a rod thru (many times) to add the rifling. On another level “gun drilling” or deep drilling long narrow materials, is it’s own science and art since the beginning of the machine age. Getting the hole is only the first part, as you need to get the rifling too. [added- in all this I’m talking about ‘a guy in his basement.’ Clearly the current manufacturers have not problems doing this in factories.]
Pistol barrels, you could probably do on a lathe, and with ordinary machine shop tools. Rifle barrels, you are gonna need some stuff that will be obvious to an investigator.
nick
I prefer explosives. Delivered by drone, of course. How about a small charge under Fartinacan’s car? Do it blackface while wearing a dashiki. Or a small drone.
I’d also prefer explosives, but those can be traced, too, and drones gotta be registered now with the Feds, amirite? Fartinican is not a major problem; let him rile up his small bands of robot followers to do battle with other BLM types and watch the fun. It’s not really the older BLMs who are a threat; it’s the wacky young radicals, a lot of them female. And the smart/clever black militants know full well they’d be on the losing end of a race war and have told their guys exactly that; vids online.
For a second there I laughed at the dashiki idea; then I thought: who better to serve as assassins than females in dashikis and turbans or whatever they wear nowadays? Get up close and personal and pop that bugger with a sawed-off shotgun and then ditch it or hand it off to some dupe/patsy to dispose of, stolen, of course. Or a homemade thermite grenade.
Well there are other ways
http://takimag.com/article/decking_the_red_whale_jim_goad#axzz44iOmr91q
and didn’t someone here point this out the other day?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/04/killerdrone/
doesn’t have to be a snowman.
I’d also prefer explosives, but those can be traced, too, and drones gotta be registered now with the Feds, amirite?
I’m sure Dr. Bob can up with an untraceable explosive. The same for drones. Build your own. I *wouldn’t* register that one. I’ve seen a drone carrying a handgun, also. There are plenty of guns in the Brazos that couldn’t be traced to you. Probably *some* of the peeps on this board, though.
This may be the week the SJWs lost it all:
This may be the week the SJWs lost it all…or, at least, their power to bully people in the hacker culture and the wider tech community.
May of you probably already know about the LambdaConf flap. In brief: LambdaConf, a technical conference on functional programming, accepted a presentation proposal about a language called Urbit, from a guy named Curtis Yarvin. I’ve looked at Urbit: it is very weird, but rather interesting, and certainly a worthy topic for a functional programming conference.
And then all hell broke loose. For Curtis Yarvin is better known as Mencius Moldbug, author of eccentric and erudite political rents and a focus of intense hatred by humorless leftists. Me, I’ve never been able to figure out how much of what Moldbug writes he actually believes; his writing seems designed to leave a reader guessing as to whether he’s really serious or executing the most brilliantly satirical long-term troll-job in the history of the Internet.
A mob of SJWs, spearheaded by a no-shit self-described Communist named Jon Sterling, descended on LambdaConf demanding that they cancel Yarvin’s talk, pretending that he (rather than, say, the Communist) posed a safety threat to other conference-goers. The conference’s principal organizers, headed up one John de Goes, quite properly refused to cancel the talk, observing that Yarvin was there to talk about his code and not his politics.
You don’t need to know anything about programming, much less functional programming, to appreciate the article.
“Lightweight Power”
https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/energy/lightweight-power
Looks complicated and expensive. I like that children hung on it and used it for a swing.
“Derailing the Trump Train”
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/142241536401/derailing-the-trump-train
“So I will update my description of Trump bringing a flamethrower to a stick fight by saying I forgot the audience have their own torches. Collectively, those torches are bigger than Trump’s flamethrower. And the audience left their seats and attacked, using pure emotion, persuasion, and repetition. Trump is surrounded and outnumbered.”
“1. Trump says we should pull U.S. military out of Japan and let them take care of defense themselves. Was Hitler known for removing troops from occupied countries?”
+1
“2. Trump says we should pull our military out of South Korea and let the South Koreans and China handle North Korea. I don’t believe Hitler was in favor of removing troops from occupied countries.”
+1
“3. Trump says we should do less with Nato. I don’t even understand that position, but I’m sure Hitler was never in favor of less military.”
+1,000. Putin is getting ready to invade Estonia and Lithuania. We don’t want to get any of that on the USA.
“4. Trump is opposed to abortion. Supporters of abortion dehumanize fetuses under a certain age so the public supports abortion laws. That’s similar to how Hitler dehumanized groups of people so the public would support genocide. Trump is the anti-Hitler in this case, supporting life for people of all ethnicities, and even potential life.”
+1
“5. Trump admitted he was wrong to tweet about Cruz’ wife. This is the first time we have seen him admit wrong. Trump’s opponents are afraid (in the third dimension) that he can’t be shamed into acting appropriately. He just showed that he can.”
Yup, Trump stepped in it that time.
“6. Trump reversed his position on punishing women for illegal abortions within hours. People worried that no amount of public shame or condemnation could control Trump, which is a dangerous situation. Trump showed he can be shamed into changing his position in real time. It happened right before our eyes.”
Never, never, never answer hypothetical problems on the campaign trail. They are always gotchas.
“But all of these things are minor compared to what Trump needs to get out of the hole. To get all the way out, he needs one thing. And he already set the table for that one thing to happen.”
“Trump needs Megyn Kelly to interview him.”
I agree. Trump must go to the Lion’s den and let the lioness play with him for a while. I doubt that she will eat him though.
“Exit Poles”
http://www.gocomics.com/bc/2016/04/04
Uh, abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany, and savagely punished.
“Lightweight Power”
What’s the cost, shipped? What is the ROI compared to Kerosene?
Cool, cuckoo clock for lights!
Every thing old is new again. It’s a bit shocking that no one has looked at this before now.
I’d like to see some DIY application of this, and have it scale up. maybe so big you need a stair climber rig to reset the weight, ie, every 4 steps raises the weight 1 notch. you could use draft animals on a capstan to raise the weight… or a kid on a treadmill, or all kinds of things.
nick
(or an electric winch, yeah, that’s it, then you could use it to power the electric winch, and use the winch to reset the weight, and get all the FREE E NE RGY you need!!!1111!!)
seriously though, my issues with replacing incan lights with CF or LED is that it takes a large sophisticated society and manufacturing base to make an LED. It takes next to nothing to make a filament in a glass bulb.
Sure you save energy once the end user gets it, but it takes a tremendous amount of energy to produce the LEDs and plastics, and then they need to be shipped to these sh!tholes. Not gonna be any indigenous manf of LEDs in Africa…
nick
“Decking the red whale” is yet another illustration of the rehashed scenario in Euro cities of brownshirts versus reds in the streets. We’ve seen this movie. We may have it here in coming years; back in the Sixties a relatively tame version was hardhats beating up “Vietniks” and peaceniks and suchlike.
Soccer hooligans and hardhats should unite and hit the college campuses, lol.
Whoa, baby, some surprises here!
http://bearingarms.com/5-businesses-rejected-moms-demand-actions-senseless-anti-gun-campaign/?utm_source=badaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
I will make it my biz to continue patronizing Staples while adding Target and Starbucks to my list. I’d do Kroger, et. al., too, but they ain’t up here.
Uh, abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany, and savagely punished.
I am fairly sure that was not the case for Jews and Gypsies.
Actually, it was.
Bummer, Amazon raised their minimum amount for free shipping to $49 from $35 in Feb. I have no idea how I missed this.
I have notice that shipping costs are rising quickly. Since the price of fuel is down at least 50%, I wonder if some long term labor costs are popping up in the shipping business?
“In Nazi Germany, the penalties for abortion were increased again. In 1943, providing an abortion to an “Aryan” woman became a capital offense. Abortion was permitted if the foetus was deformed or disabled.[2][3]” (Wiki article)
Jews and Roma were simply worked to death or murdered. Along with Catholics, homosexuals, “mental defectives,” and Allied POW’s.
Point of reference ignored by academia and media since: Stalin and Mao enslaved and murdered MANY tens of millions beyond what the Nazis did. But we never hear about them, only Hitler. And any “right-wing” political figure is compared to Hitler but no “left-wing” politicians are ever compared to Stalin, Lenin or Mao.
@Lynn,
shipping rates went up for all the majors a couple of months ago. And UPS revised the point where “dimensional weight” kicks in downward. So if I need to ship a large but lightweight item, it costs a lot more.
nick
seriously though, my issues with replacing incan lights with CF or LED is that it takes a large sophisticated society and manufacturing base to make an LED. It takes next to nothing to make a filament in a glass bulb.
Sure you save energy once the end user gets it, but it takes a tremendous amount of energy to produce the LEDs and plastics, and then they need to be shipped to these s***holes. Not gonna be any indigenous manf of LEDs in Africa…
Everything is made in China nowadays. That is why their rivers run red and burn …
The wife and I went to Washington DC several years for a long weekend. We stayed a several blocks away from the Mall in the old State Plaza Hotel. From here we walked the Mall several times and managed to do one or two museums and galleries per day. One of the displays in the Technology museum basement was the original hand drawn CFL bulbs – from the 1970s. They were neat! I had not realized that it took GE 30 years to automate their manufacture.
shipping rates went up for all the majors a couple of months ago. And UPS revised the point where “dimensional weight” kicks in downward. So if I need to ship a large but lightweight item, it costs a lot more.
I wonder if everyone is using multiples of the USPS rates for their rates?
Wow, just wait until diesel goes back up in price. Of course, these entities buy their diesel several months or a year at time so temporary fluctuations in the price do not affect their economics.
“I often wonder why there’s never a right-wing sniper taking out their leadership.”
We’re not there yet. And Mr. nick brings up good points, per usual. Remember that when there were radical pro-life shooters out there, the authorities mounted humongous hunting ops for months to find them. And even experienced woods guys will eventually tire out and break down under that kind of pressure. Shoot a BLM or prog leader/celeb now and we’ll have utter mayhem in the country again like we did with MLK. None of them have his long-term charisma and national fame, but that gets cancelled out by the instant innernet vids and chatter and the always-on tee-vee culture.
“Bracken: What I Saw At The Coup”
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/what-i-saw-at-the-coup/
Hmm, the President in the story kinda sounds like Biden.
“Bummer, Amazon raised their minimum amount for free shipping to $49 from $35 in Feb. I have no idea how I missed this.”
Amazon Prime is a deal even if you don’t take a lot of advantage of the free shipping (I have placed over 100 orders in the last 6-months). Have you reviewed the benefits recently? Amazon only promotes 5 “benefits, but there are actually 12: http://dealnews.com/features/More-Than-Free-Shipping-8-Perks-to-Amazon-Prime/1199450.html
My Wife streams a video almost every night and I stream Prime Music all day (at least 18 hours). Either of these alone would cost more than $99/year with the “other” streaming services.
I stream classical music from the French Montreal station most days but also classic rock from “The Album Station” which apparently still has a studio down in Bristol, VT and towers in the region, although they don’t broadcast anymore on the radio. I sometimes will stream VPR’s classical stuff, too. Movies and tee-vee shows I simply download, watch, and delete. Or keep, if they’re ever worth watching again.
I figure Bracken’s coup/civil war story could very likely end up the way he portrays it but it will take a long time and after a whole lotta pain and suffering nationwide.
Most of us here will be long in our graves, I’m betting. So I’m hunkering down for the short term, i.e., winter weather in this latitude with no power and mostly local scum trying to break in and/or steal stuff.
What kinda revolution will we have, peaceful or violent???
http://buchanan.org/blog/what-trump-has-wrought-125088
Oh boy, won’t THIS be special…
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/04/gerald-celente/clinton-sanders/
Nine months, fratres, nine months. Get to prepping as best you can. And think Gray Man as best you can. While also setting up SECURE comms, and that means email, snail mail, radio, and meatspace.
Nick writes: “The only way I could see it working is if it were VERY common. One event, massive application of resources as the state must be seen to be doing something. 20, 30, 40 or more, and everyone gets away with it.”
Exactly this. The same for any sort of civil disobedience, even mild things. One person goes alone to distribute information about jury nullification in front of the courthouse, they get arrested. A mob of hundreds riots and trashes downtown, they get away with it.
Civilization depends on the fact that there are very few troublemakers. When things really break down, all bets are off. Revolutions very rarely improve the country they occur in.
– – – – –
A minor but important kerfuffle here: It’s a tradition for school kids to shake their teacher’s hand when they leave class for the day. Two muslim boys, ages 14 and 15, refuse to shake hands with a female teacher (spurred on, of course, by their fundamentalist father), because that is too much bodily contact between the sexes. One of our higher political animals came out yesterday with a public condemnation, saying basically that it’s on immigrants to integrate into our culture.
Good for her, as far as it goes, but it begs the question of what to do in the specific case. Expelling the kids won’t exactly help their integration. Theoretically (if they don’t have Swiss passports), you could deport them, but deporting someone over a handshake? Not realistic. So what do you do?
“I remember somewhere in my youth, colonial Williamsburg probably, watching the gunsmiths making barrels by forge welding 8 strips of metal together around a rod. I think they then pulled a rod thru (many times) to add the rifling.”
Here’s Wallace Gusler, the master gunsmith at Colonial Williamsburg, making a rifle from scratch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lui6uNPcRPA
More about Mr Gusler:
http://www.flintriflesmith.com/WritingandResearch/Published/wallaceretires_mb.htm
http://distinctionhr.com/2014/02/pioneer-of-the-past/
Here’s a modern hobbyist building firearms from scratch, including doing her own rifling:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrT_9lgNfVlt2acnMHnpWFw/videos
“Not realistic. So what do you do?”
Deport them.
I was threatened by the stupid pigs, but not arrested.
This anti-vaxer bimbo was so “fit” she thought she couldn’t pass whooping cough on to her daughter.
The little girl has been in and out of hospital for weeks, currently in the ICU.
Good one mum. Yes, microbes don’t discriminate.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-05/mother-regrets-decision-to-reject-whooping-cough-vaccine/7301836
” deporting someone over a handshake? Not realistic.”
You’re not deporting them because of a handshake, you are deporting them because of a demonstrated unwillingness to adopt local custom, and unwillingness to even attempt assimilation. You are deporting them because they are asserting beliefs incompatible with you law (equal treatment for all) and social norms.
It is the nose under the tent, the thin end of the wedge, or the first step on the slippery slope. It ends with the sexes segregated, and women counted as half a man.
No one has the will to act when it’s “just a handshake” or when it’s some minor thing, but it will grow, until it’s too big to stop. There are plenty of examples. in life and the world.
nick
“No one has the will to act when it’s “just a handshake” or when it’s some minor thing, but it will grow, until it’s too big to stop.”
Yes, that’s exactly the problem. No way you could get a deportation through for such a small thing – but exactly, it’s another brick in the wall…
Under Obola’s Imperial Rule, the citizens have to integrate into the crimmigrant’s culture. Talk about bassackwards. Crimmigrants arrive and form the same shithole life they wanted to escape. You’re a rayciss if you don’t accept and *change* your culture.
Trump 2016! “Build the wall!”
“Yes, microbes don’t discriminate.”
There was a reason people were willing to risk the potential side effects of vaccines for childhood illnesses– they had witnessed first hand the deaths, paralysis, blindness, deafness, scarring, etc.
Almost no one now having kids has witnessed those things, and so they fear the potential side effects more than the illness. And in fairness, the illnesses aren’t common any longer (due to vaccination). But they are increasingly common as we (and the other civilized countries) import large populations of unvaccinated people, and put their kids in schools with ours.
With the return of sick kids, we’ll see a change in attitudes toward vaccination.
nick
Can someone refresh me?
Is there a way to see specific assets on a vpn, even tho your local network and the vpn network have the same ip addresses?
In other words, I’m on xxxx.1.x here, and I connect to a vpn with the same addresses (because everyone everywhere is xxx.1.xxx or xxx.0.xxx) but some of the addresses overlap.
I have a 1.180 locally, and there is a 1.180 on the vpn network that I want to point my browser to. (remote camera)
Also, even though the network details pane shows me authenticated and connected to the remote network, it doesn’t show up in the network area of my file explorer.
It’s been a long time since I used a vpn regularly and I’m not getting useful results with google for the phrases I can think of.
local is win8.2 with the built in vpn client, remote is a PPTP server I have remote access to (to setup and config if needed).
nick
@Nick: I’m not sure I understand your question. Normally, once you’re in a VPN, you are no longer in your local network. You have a new IP address, which is unique within the VPN. Once you’re in the VPN, you can use all of the usual network tools: ping, netstat, traceroute, whatever. At least, that’s the way I’m used to it working.
But I have the feeling I’ve misunderstood your question…
Ah – I might be able to help here.
You want your local network and the VPN network to be different. In fact, if you want to reach the VPN machines at all, you MUST be on different networks.
Consider: 192.168.1.0/24 – pretty common for most home networks. Now, consider the remote network on 10.0.0.0/16. The remote network is much larger, and there is a clear distinction between the networks. When you connect to that network, you wind up with 2 IP addresses. You have 192.168.1.101 (for instance). On the remote network, you’ll get something like 10.0.200.57. Now, if I want 10.0.5.5, it is exceedingly clear that my traffic should go to the remote network. If I need to get to 192.168.1.201 (my printer), traffic routes over the local hop and NOT over the VPN.
192.168.x.x is a very common “home” network, and 10.x.x.x is very common in “work” networks. There’s a VERY good reason for that. It makes remote connections easier for the average user.
Now, we had a user whose son set up his home network, and he set the router up with a network of 10.0.0.0/24, which is valid, but VERY stupid. He had an IP address of something like 10.0.0.19. He could see everything on the VPN above 10.0.1.0 because it was DIFFERENT than his home network. Everything in 10.0.0.x routed locally (for him) so he could NOT see it. This happened to include the mail server, the main file server, the SQL server, and all of our DNS servers. He was hosed. I had to get him off line and remote in with TeamViewer to reset his router to a conventional 192.168.1.x network.
So, Nick, if you want to see something over a VPN, you’ll need to be on different networks. My home network happens to be 192.168.11.0/24, simply because people normally use 0 or 1 for the 3rd octet. I can connect to MOST 192.168 subnets, as well as all 10.0.0.0/x subnets without a problem. You might consider doing the same. That’s the only way you’ll be able to see assets at the other end.
I’m going to try a be short here:
Non-integraters get a choice, stoning in the public square or dropped from 45,000-ft back into their “home” country (no parachute).
For the most part the anti-vaccers have clouded the real problem, other than the government forcing you to do something against your beliefs. The “autism” and other side effects have been traced to the preservatives (mercury based) used in vaccines and other heavy metals used during the production. Vaccines can be produced without all the “contamination”. The problem is that they have a short shelf life and cost more to produce. You can order the “clean” vaccines but the insurance companies will not cover the cost. I do not remember the exact costs, but the vaccines required at the college my Daughter graduated from (Gonzaga) cost about more than 5-times more in the “clean” version, plus we had to pay for the express refrigerated shipping. Our insurance company did pay the “normal” cost, which they do not do now.
BTW, I have mentioned before that I had Polio in 1952. But that wasn’t good enough for the government. Over my Parents protest I was given one of the first Polio vaccines in 1955 and within days went from only paralyzed on my left side (mainly left leg) to total paralysis. My body though fought off the “new invader” and slowly over 6-months I went back to only having my original paralysis. So my immune system fought off the vaccine. I was 5, I knew what was going on even in my little kid mind. To this day I am a nightmare to doctors as I know how to research and learn so they get run through the wringer.
Trump 2016 and I want a wall with a kill-zone on the “foreign” side.
Guess I wasn’t as short as I planned. So what’s new. 😉
@jimL,
Thanks, that is what I needed to see.
I haven’t worked for BigCorp in 5 years, and that was the last time I used a vpn. I think I did the x.1.x vs. x.0.x at the time so I could use my network assets at home, and still use the servers at the office.
In this case, I was trying to get a better way to support an installation, where I find myself needing more access than usual. Since the load balancing router has a vpn server, I thought, might as well try setting up a vpn, then I can see all the assets on the remote net, and not just the ones I have port forwarded.
I might change my ip scheme at home, but I probably won’t change it for the remote site. Too many fixed IPs, too many opaque devices (HVAC vendor, I’m looking at you.) I don’t want to take the time, only to discover I’ve broken the HVAC, spa, security, or DirectTV networking if their engineers cut corners…
I guess I’m gonna have to go to site.
nick
[added- thang kod for logging. With this customer, being able to see uptimes and downtimes, and see EXACTLY when they rebooted a device is priceless.]
@nick – sorry to hear about the trip. Remote is (almost always) preferable.
I have many fixed IPs at work. So much so that I’ll never change it. I could improve performance by making the network smaller, but I simply don’t have the resources to go around and fix all of the equipment that DOESN’T understand DHCP and DOES require network connectivity.
Home network change might be easy. Even easier would be a laptop & cell phone hotspot. My cell phone sets up yet another network (different scheme – something like 192.168.79.0/24) – another option. If you have something like that, it could still save you a trip.
Now, I’m thinking I should set up a network in 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255, as it seems nobody EVER uses it.
Naw. It ain’t broke yet.
I’ve got a korean NVR sitting on my desk that has 193.168.1.xxx hard coded as the address space for cameras on it’s internal POE switch. That’s one I’ve never seen before!
Lots of hardware and software out there with limiting design choices. Software with Comm ports limited to port 1 or 2, hard coded address space, slow comm ports, hardware flow control, you name it, some industrial designer has done it.
I better get my stuff on the road.
nick
Jews and Roma were simply worked to death or murdered. Along with Catholics, homosexuals, “mental defectives,” and Allied POW’s.
I had forgotten that Gypsies were also called Roma.
I’ve probably mentioned this here before. When I was a plant engineer, I worked with a senior engineer in our Fort Worth office for quite a while. So one day I got bold and asked him why he weighed so much, he was 6’3″ (if I remember right) and weighed at least 350 lbs. He was around 60 at the time.
Tom was part of the junior class at TAMU that all marched down and joined up together in 1942. He already knew how to fly a single engine airplane so they put him in the bomber program (he was too tall for a fighter). 12 weeks later, he and the copilot picked up a B-17 in Fort Worth, and flew it to Maine, Greenland, Iceland, and England. Tom was the captain since he was two weeks older than the copilot. They had a couple of hundred five gallon gasoline cans in the bomb bay and were continuously pouring those into the main tanks while they were flying.
Anyway, his plane was shot down on his second trip over Germany. He was captured and put into a POW camp in Germany for 18 months. He told me they starved him to almost to death as he dropped from 180 lbs to 108 lbs. He resolved never to go hungry again in his life. The dude had a 48 inch waist and was proud of it. BTW, an awesome engineer.
My sixth-grade teacher, Mr. Lynch, had also been a POW in a German camp, for three years. He told us about sawdust bread and acorn coffee and how they treated the Russian POWs (very badly). My seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Hopkins, walked with braces on his legs from being machine-gunned by the Wehrmacht. Meanwhile, of course, my dad and maternal grandpa were WWII vets. That’s what I grew up with, plus my paternal grandfather being a Great War vet, and one of my uncles on a Navy destroyer off ‘Nam at the time, too.
I lost 50 pounds each time I went to SEA but gained it all back again and then some; now at about 245-250, down from 265, with a 38″ waist. I ought to take four inches off my waist but easier said than done.
A couple of the deputies when my mom was at the sheriff’s dept had been Vietnam POWs. Same thing – almost starved to death and vowed they’d never be hungry again. In terms of food storage, they were preppers before prepping was a thing.
I wasn’t a POW but the fucking heat and humidity and stress and different food took the weight off in a matter of a couple of weeks. And it stayed off while I was there; I used to be a very tall and skinny mofo. Now I’m very tall and a big fat porker. (not really, I’d be a BFP if I got up to 350-400 maybe).
Our experiences shape us in ways we recognize and ways we don’t.
I had a coworker that wouldn’t eat soup. Didn’t matter if it was lobster bisque from a Michelin starred joint, he wouldn’t eat it. I asked him why- it was all they ate as working poor, single parent household in the projects. He swore that if he ever made it out, he’d never eat soup again.
My in laws will not leave food on the table. They can be stuffed, and they physically can’t leave a bite on the table. Both grew up poor in large households, and there was never enough food for everyone. Even when I call their attention to it (since they bitch about their weight, and they are pushing their F’d up food psychosis on my daughters, and– I’m a dick sometimes) they deny it and get very angry insisting that they haven’t been programmed, and are in full control of their eating. Bull. They’ll circle the table until one or the other eats the last bite.
I don’t want my girls picking up all the BS habits our families developed about food. They’re gonna have enough trouble just from what’s out there in everyday society.
nick
Yo.
I don’t have a problem with bundling food into the fridge for leftovers, but I won’t throw food away.
Yep.
My immediate family have all been big and tall people, but none of them were/are morbidly obese, maybe a tad overweight but not overly so. Wife’s about half and half, i.e., some big and tall and some short, but none obese. Her deceased husband’s family up in the NWT, however, are friggin’ enormous hippos and sea lions. Princess had the uber-vegan thing going on for a while and I believe it messed up her digestive system; she’s not as fanatic about it as before, at least, and will eat some fish and meat once in a while. Then we have our son, who’s a chip off the NWT family block, my height and now probably outweighs me by forty pounds; DIL is almost a foot shorter than us and outweighs each of us by another twenty or thirty pounds.
I could theoretically carry 300+ pounds w/o looking fat, but who needs that strain on their haht and the knees and back and lungs? I eat a pretty good breakfast, a couple of snacks and usually a fairly light suppa, and that’s it. If I worked full-time on days again, I’d also eat a regular lunch. And I remember the days of high skool and the military when I ate all my waking hours; breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, suppa, snack, midnight chow, etc. And drank cases of beer. Stayed well under 200 pounds, too.
@steveF, they don’t put it in the fridge, they put it in the pie hole. They will pick at what’s there until there isn’t enough to make a decent leftover, and then they are compelled to eat that last bite.
MIL been on one diet or another since 16 yo and wants to give me eating advice… only natural food in her fridge is a tomato from the garden, the rest is “low” this and ‘lo’ that, made from chemistry.
nick