Changing outlets of a broken extension cord I have an old mangled extension cord, that has been sitting around, so I figured I fix it so I can make use of it again. The Schutzkontaktstecker was falling apart and the cable had a cut that someone fixed with some tape. I cut off the broken part which fortunately was quite close to one of the ends and replaced both the plug and socket with a TAURUS 2 plug and socket from PCE.
Restoring a Paul Waechter Microscope Va
I acquired this Paul Waechter microscope a while back. It was in quite a rough shape, most of the brass plated parts had the brass rust off or corroded.
I decided to only fix the severely broken parts and keep as much of it original, as possible. I’m generally not a fan of making old things look new and shiny again, old things have the right to look old and used.
Microscopy Insights #4: Lamprohiza Splendidula
I found this firefly Kleiner Leuchtkäfer Lamprohiza Splendidula on my balcony caught in a spider web.
I released it afterwards.
Naturwildpark Freisen
All pictures taken with my Sony SLT-a77 with a Minolta AF 28-100mm F3.5-F5.6, Minolta AF 50mm F1.7 and Tamron SP AF 70-300 F/4-5.6 Di VC USD.
Storks Deers Arctic Foxes Foxes Raccoons Raccoon Dogs European fallow deer Mouflons Geese Falconry Old Agricultural Machines Lanz LK20
Saarschleife
All pictures taken with my Sony SLT-a77 with a Sony DT 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 SAM objective.
Cleaning a Thales MEZ
So I got this Thales MEZ a while back which was in a super bad shape:
In particular after a general outside clean I redid the paint on the front-panel, as the majority was rusted off:
However, I did not clean it on the inside at the time and just put it into my shelf to sit there. Now I decided to finish what I started and repair the rest of it.
Landsweiler Reden
All pictures taken with my Sony SLT-a77 with a Minolta AF 28-100mm F3.5-F5.6, Minolta AF 50mm F1.7 and Tamron SP AF 70-300 F/4-5.6 Di VC USD.
View from Eschberg
All pictures taken with my Sony SLT-a77 with a Minolta AF 28-100mm F3.5-F5.6 and Tamron SP AF 70-300 F/4-5.6 Di VC USD.
Zoo Neunkirchen
All pictures taken with my Sony SLT-a77 with a Tamron SP AF 70-300 F/4-5.6 Di VC USD telephoto lens.
Elephants Snow Leopards Dholes Peafowls Vietnamese Sika Deer & Blackbucks Miscellaneous Bald Eagle Showing the Nictitating membrane. Falconry Other birds from the falconry.
Fixing the RRD IO Hell
So I’m using collectd to monitor my systems. For a couple of machines it was fine, but as soon as it got more collectd caused a constant load on my disks due to all the RRD files that need to be written.
In order to reduce this I decided to use rrdcached, which comes with the default RRD install on FreeBSD. It can be configured for collectd on FreeBSD as follows: