To Migrate 70 Terabytes…
It’s true. The project that I started almost two months ago to migrate all of my home server data from rapidly aging desktop hardware to a rackmount NAS i...
Tag: computers
A Change of Backup…
This past weekend I finally made the decision to switch backup providers from CrashPlan to Backblaze. I think. It seems like I’ve been using CrashPlan for...
How to Grow a Virtual Disk… (the long way)
So to any sysadmins who do this kind of stuff on a daily basis, this is going to seem way obvious, but for somebody who doesn’t and has been struggling wi...
Cleaning Day, iPhone Edition
How many apps do you have on your phone right now? Apparently I have over 130 apps, and honestly when I started going through my list, there were some that I ha...
oh poopies…
So apparently I had a hard drive crash in my Plex server while we were on vacation last week. Possibly two … still looking into that! What’s really ...
I feel the need … the need for Internet speed…
I get a little antsy about my home Internet speed when I spend any amount of time planning out home server stuff, and considering my little purchase of 50 TB of...
Archiving Fun
Now that I’ve more or less got my server upgrades under control, the last couple of weeks I’ve been really enjoying making use of that new computing...
Virtualization Fun
So after a handful of learning curves over the last couple of weeks, my Plex server officially has a new home! Although my hope was to this summer be able to af...
Machine Learning for a Better Search
I wanted to expand more on the comment I made earlier on my micro-blog about how to build a better search function because the more that I think about it, the m...
Whatever happened to RSS readers???
I guess they just went away with the rise of social media and apps and notifications, though for what it’s worth I always found that a bit silly because I...