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Lab Updates
So late last year I picked up a refurbished Dell PowerEdge R610 to use as a VM host to replace the 2950 Gen3. I still need to get more memory for it as I only have it outfitted with 64 GB currently. I still want to get 1-2 more R610s so I can get rid […]
Projects II
So I discovered the CPU I was going to use in building a Hyper-V or VMWare test box has only a single core. I think I’ll end up using it for a pfSense or OPNsense box instead and do something else for the hypervisor test box, maybe use the hardware from my current NAS after […]
2020? Projects
(If you’re wondering about the title it’s that I doubt I’ll have the budget for any of this in the coming year so maybe next year..maybe.) I think going forward I’m going to go back to building my PCs instead of buying machines, except obviously for if I replace my going on 10 year old […]
Gutenberg
This is a test post with the new ‘Gutenberg’ editor in WordPress. The last time I tried to use it was about a month ago and couldn’t even attach the image to the post I was trying to make, I ended up starting again with the regular editor just to be able to complete the […]
Top500 November ’17
So the November edition of the Top500 supercomputer list is now out, and I thought I would revisit my post from June and see where things stack up compared to that issue. From the looks of things most of the movement was introduced by the additions of new systems bumping other systems, ie Titan’s drop […]
Technical Difficulties II
Finally have a mostly functioning laptop again after getting the new hard drive in and getting everything transferred over from the temporary one. I still need to see if it will function on battery or not, it might be time to get it replaced again. I also installed a new NIC in my FreeNAS box […]
Wait..what?
So the weather around here looks to remain rather dull for awhile.. I’ve been having issues with my laptop (Dell Latitude D630) since vacation. Originally I thought it was just the SSD failing, so I ordered a new drive from NewEgg along with parts for other projects. But earlier this week it started refusing to […]
Technical Difficulties
This is a long one.. Windows 10 Awhile back, since I was able to get my hands on a copy of Windows 10 cheap I thought I’d load it in to a VM on VirtualBox to play with, without disturbing my main environment (7). I got everything configured and installed, with some basic applications but […]
PHP
Found a way to get a newer version of PHP (short of building from source at least…) on my server.. hopefully it didnt break anything..
Top500 June 2017 Edition
So the June 2017 revision of the Top500 supercomputer list is out. I thought I would look at where machines stack up in the meteorological realm from that list. I’m only including those that appear to be used for weather based on the listed owner so some could get excluded, the full list is available […]
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