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-title: "Week 4, Tuesday:"
+title: "Week 4, Tuesday: Celestica and 59mm Pins"
 date: 2024-08-20T21:55:00+02:00
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 {{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/dreamscape.png" alt="Credit: Dreamscape, Youtube" >}}
+
+A few weeks ago, somebody on Telegram pointed me at a Serve The Home forum post where a guy from
+Germany was organizing a group-buy of 100Gig Celestica DX010 switches. I had heard of this switch
+before, but it never made it to the top of my nerd list. However, the deal was pretty sweet, and the
+switch ie not terrible, judging by the [[STH
+Review](https://www.servethehome.com/inside-a-celestica-seastone-dx010-32x-100gbe-switch/)]. So on
+Telegram, a few of us decided that we'd like to participate.
+
+This morning just before lunch, a friendly UPS driver rocked up to my frontdoor and delivered six
+switches; th`ese are 32x100G switches that are ONIE capable, and run SONiC, although I've heard that
+Cumulus and perhaps others may run on it too. I schlepped the boxes downstairs while Mairna was out
+for lunch with her buddy Jen. 
+
+After making some bastardized ramen with leftover _Yolein_ tomato soup, which was delicious by the
+way, I started with the main task of the afternoon: checking to see if the replacement 59mm stamp
+from BadgeMatic works. You see, we tried and tried, but could not get the stamp Marina bought to
+work - we had a call with Anja of BadgeMatic, who is awesome and super friendly, she sent us a
+replacement part. Good news, it worked! 
+
+I want to get those switches out of the way, so I take them downstairs and rack them. Three of them
+are actually for my buddy Sandro, who on Telegram approves of me taking them out of their box for a
+photo shoot. I open one up, and take plenty of pics, and then hang up the switches in IPng's lab:
+these are six switches, each with 32x100G ports. I take pause for a second, as I have just racked an
+additional 19.2Tbps of switch port capacity in my lab. That's awe inspiring!
+
+Once Marina got home we took a closer look at the stamp, which she approves also, so I am officially
+off to the races. However, there was an issue with the (new) Cameo 5, which was placing its cuts
+_off_ by a fair amount, on the X axis (the short side of the A4 paper). I scoured the Internetz a
+little bit, and eventually bumped into a post from somebody on Reddit who said that they only had it
+in the afternoon, not in the morning, and mostly only on sunny days. I thought they were cray-cray
+at first, but then some engineer explained that it could be that there are shadows being cast by the
+Sun, which may put off the sensor that reads the fiducials, called _Registration Marks_ in
+Silhouette. I do a test-cut and I literally see a shadow being cast onto the paper; so I managed to
+solve the issue by making the fiducials 1.0mm wide and then closing the Cameo's lid while it scans
+for them. Works a treat, neat!
+
+At this point I'm reasonably committed, and ask Marina if she wants to play along. She is having a
+day of it, reminding me of my terrible luck yesterday. She printed a postage stamp for Robbie's
+package, which cost CHF 37,- but it printed a tracking number with all 0's and a big watermark
+**TEST** on the webstamp. The postoffice rejected it, and she has been mucking about going from
+person to person to try to rectify. She is emitting some fume from the ears, and I can't help, so I
+just let her be.
+
+Meanwhile, my work is going swimmingly: I end up doing half of the stamps for Frys-IX, and printing
+and cutting the other half. Of all 15x6pcs, exactly zero of them fail. Great success!!1 and I get to
+play with the electro static mat for the cutter, which is an absolute blessing. At some point,
+Marina signals success on the phone with the post office, and they will refund her the first
+postage. "I require a drink", and I more than happily oblige.
+
+After dinner, Quinn says there's a few more extra _buildings_ in the [[Cookie
+Clicker](https://www.cookieclicker.com/)], which is a thing. It became clear to me that this game
+was written by some tech-nerd-folks who ate mushrooms, got high, and never came down from that high.
+All you do is click cookies. If you click cookies long enough, you can get rewards.  Quinn has been
+playing it for so long, that every time he clicks the cookie, 1.7 Trillion (yes, _Trillion!_) new
+cookies are generated. He has so many powerups -- and shows me his latest one, called the
+_Javascript console_; each one of which generates 16T cookies per second. The by-line for this
+_building_ is "Creates cookies from the very code this game was written in.". As I said, the authors
+of the game are perpetually high.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0729.JPG" caption="UPS came! Six Celestica Seastone (DX010) switches were delivered; they are 32x100G each. That's going to be a fun afternoon exploring them." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0730.JPG" caption="There was another package - Anja sent a replacement stamp head for our 59mm pins, and it works. Yahoo!!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0746.JPG" caption="I racked the Celestica switches, three of them will be for IPng, and the other three will go on to Sandro later this month." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0751.JPG" caption="In the mean time, I start stamping out pins for Frys-IX. They look really slick, in the colors of Frysl&aring;n" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0752.JPG" caption="A picture of the printing station, these pins are a bit bigger, so they fit only six to a page." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0753.JPG" caption="A picture of the cutting station. After I figured out why the cuts were offset, the Cameo did a perfect job cutting all 90 pins, yaay!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0755.JPG" caption="Marina signals success with the post office, and requires a celebratory drink. Of course, I oblige." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0756.JPG" caption="We click a few trillion cookies for Quinn." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0757.JPG" caption="I've made a few B&uuml;rli hand rolls, which are half-baked and ready for refridgeration" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0758.JPG" caption="We watch a somewhat bizarre satire short-film about Donald J. Trump, played by Jonny Depp, with lots of famous actors and comedians pitching in.  From 2016, no less!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/cookies.png" caption="Cookie Clicker, the web-version. I am a novice with almost 80 cookies. Quinn has a few quadrillion." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/javascript.png" caption="Quinn shows the Javascript Console builder add-on in Cookie Clicker. This baby makes 16T cookies per second, not too shabby!!" >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
+{{< gallery-modal >}}
+{{< gallery-script >}}

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   {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-19/sipeed-kvm.png" caption="A screenshot of Summer's desktop as seen in a web browser, using Sipeed's NanoKVM over IP" >}}
   {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-19/IMG_0720.JPG" caption="We eat Flammkuchen tonight, courtesy of Marina" >}}
   {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-19/IMG_0721.JPG" caption="Leave your phone unattended, and there will be goofy pictures when you return..." >}}
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+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0729.JPG" caption="UPS came! Six Celestica Seastone (DX010) switches were delivered; they are 32x100G each. That's going to be a fun afternoon exploring them." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0730.JPG" caption="There was another package - Anja sent a replacement stamp head for our 59mm pins, and it works. Yahoo!!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0746.JPG" caption="I racked the Celestica switches, three of them will be for IPng, and the other three will go on to Sandro later this month." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0751.JPG" caption="In the mean time, I start stamping out pins for Frys-IX. They look really slick, in the colors of Frysl&aring;n" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0752.JPG" caption="A picture of the printing station, these pins are a bit bigger, so they fit only six to a page." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0753.JPG" caption="A picture of the cutting station. After I figured out why the cuts were offset, the Cameo did a perfect job cutting all 90 pins, yaay!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0755.JPG" caption="Marina signals success with the post office, and requires a celebratory drink. Of course, I oblige." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0756.JPG" caption="We click a few trillion cookies for Quinn." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0757.JPG" caption="I've made a few B&uuml;rli hand rolls, which are half-baked and ready for refridgeration" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/IMG_0758.JPG" caption="We watch a somewhat bizarre satire short-film about Donald J. Trump, played by Jonny Depp, with lots of famous actors and comedians pitching in.  From 2016, no less!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/cookies.png" caption="Cookie Clicker, the web-version. I am a novice with almost 80 cookies. Quinn has a few quadrillion." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-20/javascript.png" caption="Quinn shows the Javascript Console builder add-on in Cookie Clicker. This baby makes 16T cookies per second, not too shabby!!" >}}
 {{< /gallery-category >}}
 
 ### Playing with OBS sound (August 8th)