This is where Cdoc services come from. Not from a vendor catalog, not from a conference keynote. From a real lab, with real hardware, real tools, and an uncomfortable number of opinions about how things should actually work. We work on weird stuff. We work on normal stuff. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
The wine box bench mule. Origin story, build diary, combat configurations, and why the chassis outlasts everything installed in it.
DD-WRT and OpenWrt when the stock firmware wasn't worth the silicon. Through every generation since — to wherever WiFi is headed next.
The pipeline that produces MooseWalls. Threat research, architecture testing, rule refinement. Where security ideas get stress-tested before they guard anything real.
Guitars. Painted towers. Custom NVR security cam stacks. Things that shouldn't exist but work anyway.
Goofy experimental server builds. Prototype before production. If it survives the lab it might become a real thing.
Thirty years of questionable decisions that somehow all worked out. More pages coming. The moose is permanent.
Outlook native DAV sync — contacts and calendar without a third-party bridge, without a prayer, and without the usual Microsoft adventure. Being tested now on Speedy. Ships when it actually works.
That's the Labs policy. Always has been.
Hyper-V, virtualization, Microsoft Server, Microsoft 365 — the full ecosystem, because clients live there and we need to know it cold.
More importantly: OpenBSD and Linux servers and workstations. Standards-compliant, reliable, the way things should work.
And yes — MS-DOS, Windows XP, SCSI drives from a previous decade. Nothing is too old if the data matters.
"We won't ship it until it actually works."