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Congrats to our emergency-backup daughter Dinah, who gave birth this week to a strapping 4.68kg lad! Esther was there to give comfort and help her, but she didn’t need too much of that; she just wanted the child to achieve independence ASAP. So, we’ve a brit to attend on Monday. mazal tov!
Yarin’s uncle gave Sarah and Yarin a weekend at a nice hotel, so they’re off enjoying that. Why didn’t any of my uncles ever do something like that for me?
Esther and I decided (TBH, just Esther) that our oven needed replacing. She/We wanted a self-cleaning model, but those are few, far, and very expensive between — here in The Land. So instead, we ordered a decent model which hopefully will last longer than the (insert appropriate execration) Sauter we currently have. We’ll see.
Stuff and nonsense:
- Argentina’s inflation crisis.
- Mallen Baker on Myocarditis and Covid vaccines: What the research actually says.
- A recent research paper on mask efficacy. An interesting read, though not particularly surprising.
- My favorite Scot on how “Velma” is the worst rated animation on IMDb, ever.
- Prof Hossenfelder on how “gene selection” is happening now.
- And Lahav Harkov on “You People” (apparently, a film) and its very problematic messaging.
Now, I mentioned last week my travails with Bezeq after having upgraded our internet from copper DSL lines to optical-fiber. The good: it’s much, much, much! faster, and it’s less prone to noise and outages.
The bad: well, I discussed some of that last week. This week I tackled just two problems: getting “rDNS” set up, and getting the “web ports” open so that you lot would be able to read this here bloggy.
In desperation, I finally contacted their customer service, since none of the tech staff had done anything nor had they answered me. Within an hour, I got a phone call from their representative. This fellow actually understood what I was asking for, and told me he’d take care of it. And he did, surprisingly enough!
Within a day or so the “rDNS” was set up, hurray! But the ports I needed opened remained closed. Eventually he told me that the “engineering group” told him that the Bezeq router reserves those ports and they cannot be opened by the end-user! That chapped my hide. I told him it was unacceptable that not only is the router locked down, but that I couldn’t open whatever port I wanted. It turns out there is a solution, and not a difficult one…
… Go to the “Bezeqstore” and purchase an “SFP adapter” to convert the Bezeq-specific cable connector to a standard SFP optical connector, and an “Optical-Ethernet adapter” to convert the optical interface to regular Ethernet. Then, go to “Ivory” and get a high-speed router.
After doing that, and having the customer-service guy enable my SFP adapter, I hooked up the other bits and in a very short time had all the ports I wanted, as well as a router over which I have full control.
But then, I discovered that my rDNS had been undone! Apparently, some Huge Pulsing Brain at Bezeq decided that since I have two domains, I should have two PTR records. The result was effectively no PTR records, so no rDNS! Another day of tribulation, but it got fixed (hopefully, it will stay fixed).
Bloody Bezeq!
Well, winter finally arrived! The weather turned very cold, rainy and windy (and we discovered more leaks in the roof, but that’s for another day…). Shabbat will be rainy at times, but from Monday on we expect another storm system to rain on us most of the week. Yeah!
This shabbat, we and our guests will have:
homemade ḥalla,
vegetable soup,
salmon curry,
Basmati rice,
eggplant with peppers,
roasted veggies,
various salatim,
and chocolate-chip cookies
Until next time,
shabbat shalom!
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