I have upgraded my home lab from a simple wall mountable rack to a media / network rack. Which I then added a wood top to use as desk space for a 3D Printer. Other changes include: A second Nighthawk I had laying around and made it a network wide VPN using DD-WRT. 5 Rack mounted Raspberry Pi 4s. Netgear 16 Port POE Switch to power the Pis. Dell Optiplex running OPNSENSE firewall...
Continue Reading...I finally got a real server to play with. I bought a used Dell PowerEdge T620 Server. It came with dual Xeon 8 Core Processors, 32gb of ram, 4 600gb SAS drives and dual 750w power supplies. I purchased this server to mess with virtualization environments. I wasn't really going to use it for anything serious so I decided to run the SAS drives in RAID 0 and I got 2 Samsung EVOs...
Continue Reading...I like to mess with computers. This hobby could get pretty expensive. So I often scour places like craigslist, offerup, eBay and the facebook marketplace for deals. I recently picked up 2 Intel NUCs. I was looking for something small to use as a home server. I have used Raspberry Pis for this but I kind of wanted something a bit more powerful. The Intel NUC is a small form factor...
Continue Reading...I'm starting to like to develop on Linux, instead of on macOS. Only issue I have with Linux is the lack of Adobe support when I have to open any Adobe files. I have a 2018 MacBook Pro but I wanted a new Linux laptop. I've always heard about how wonderful the ThinkPad keyboards were. I really dislike the MacBook's butterfly keyboard and the XPS keyboard isn't great either. Both are chicklet style.
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