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Raising Friendly Cattle: My Journey from Bottle Calves to Well-Behaved Herd
Raising cattle can be a rewarding endeavor, especially when you take the time to nurture and train them to be friendly and well-behaved. At Stella Manor, my approach to raising friendly cattle starts from the moment they arrive as bottle calves. Here’s a glimpse into my process and the steps I’ve taken to ensure my…
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Building a Fence to Last a Lifetime at Stella Manor
At Stella Manor, our 55-acre organic farm in Bell Township, Westmoreland County, PA, we are deeply committed to sustainable and regenerative farming practices. As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance the farm’s infrastructure, we recently undertook the construction of a new fence for our cattle. In keeping with our organic principles, we chose to…
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Free Ranging Chickens in the Cold Winter Months
Free-ranging chickens and allowing them to graze as nature had intended is always recommended over just keeping them in the coop. Chickens and any domestic bird will peak their productivity and health when they have a space to roam around freely.Healthy, happy, and natural birds are in our interest. Spring, summer, and fall months are…
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Adtran n-Command AOS Configuration Templates
Adtran n-Command MSP is a true game changer for deploying and administering Adtran products quickly. While getting n-Command was a journey in itself, I had a difficult ordering process; it was very difficult to get any info from their sales team ( they never really returned any of my voicemails, inquiries or emails over ~18…
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T1 and PRI Troubleshooting and Fun At Layers 1 and 2
Believe it or not in 2021 T1 lines are still fairly common in many enterprise and rural settings. T1s can be used for both voice and data, the most common circuit these days is a PRI for voice. I’ve found support for these circuits are often non-existent at the lower levels of carrier and vendor…
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Mitel SX200 Hard Drive Failure
The Mitel SX200 has been a staple in hospitality since it’s original release in 1975 when it was first introduced by Mitel. If you have ever worked at a hotel there is a high chance that you have seen the dreaded console phone. Modern systems don’t add a ton of value to most environments, the…
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daloRADIUS on Ubuntu 20.04 for Captive Portal
DaloRADIUS is an open source RADIUS client and server implementation for Unix-like systems, and it can be used as a frontend or backend to authenticate remote users against FreeRADIUS. Today I am going to be installing daloRADIUS on Ubuntu 20.04. My end goal is to use this as a radius based captive portal for Mikrotik,…
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UNIFI Controller API to Automate Repetitive Tasks
Keeping many sites consistent is the key to quality and quick network support. Ubiquiti’s software defined controller presented unique challenges when implementing and keeping up with changes. With a few thousand UNIFI devices managed a task as small as adding a new admin to every site could take hours. I wanted to share this as…
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TerrariumPI on Raspberry Pi 4
TerrariumPI is a neat software to control almost any environmental condition in a closed environment. I had been looking for something like this for my greenhouse automation project but noticed the install instructions were a little out of date and wouldn’t work with python3 bundled in the more recent raspbian distros. Here I will walk…
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Reset Password on Adtran Total Access
A lot of my telecom projects involve the Adtran Total Access series. Today I’m going to do an overview of the easiest way I’ve found to reset the password after I’ve forgotten it or locked myself out. For this you are going to need console access; a standard DB9 to USB cord was used. Using…
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