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: geek stuff
Rediscovering Music, Digitally
Recently I decided to revisit the seemingly gargantuan task of reorganizing my digital music collection. It’s something that I’ve been putting off e...
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...
Addicted to … Light Bulbs?
Over the weekend I splurged and bought a few of those fancy Philips Hue smart light bulbs with some of our tax refund. And yes, before we get too far into this ...
How long do you hold onto domain names you’re not using anymore?
I used to be of the mindset that because domain names are relatively cheap, there’s really no reason why a person’s assorted web projects shouldn...
Musing About Disney World and Stats
There are some times when I would really love to get a glimpse of some of the statistics around Walt Disney World. My curiosity this morning is specifically aro...
Robots Playing Video Games???
This is a really cool video of Super Mario World, and not just because it’s an incredibly fast speed run featuring all sorts of exploits that I’d ne...
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 ...
2018 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 19 – Glittery Porch Pirate Revenge
We’ve been pretty lucky in that I’m not sure if we’ve ever had a package stolen off of our porch. A few weeks ago I had a couple mis-delivered...