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Long time no post, I know. Balance between personal and professional life is always a time juggle and with the kids on vacation (while I’m not), it gets harder to dedicate some time to write. I’ll just drop a few rants here, some will be developed in individual posts later down the road. New Laptop,…
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Note: I should have included this in my latest random stuff post, but I completely forgot… If there’s one thing that still hits me right in the nostalgia, it’s a solid Capcom fighting game from the golden era of Arcade gaming and now, with Capcom Fighting Collection 2, Capcom did it again. After the first…
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Here we are again… almost a full decade later, with part four of my home server saga! And yes, unbelievably, it’s still the same server from all those years ago: the ever-reliable HP Microserver Gen8. Quiet, stable, and surprisingly capable after all this time. It hasn’t been running ESXi Free for a while now, and…
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When you work on IT you’re prone to two things: being a geek and carrying a lot of gadgets. Well, I surely can’t escape my fate, and suffering from both issues (geeking with gadgetry) I have a plethora of things always ready on my “IT Guy Kit”. Here’s the list: The kit pouch itself –…
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Still on the Gen 8 topic, here’s the lowdown on some questions I was asked: File Sharing – I’m using regular Windows FS in a workgroup environment. Backup – I was using a multitude of solutions for backup here at home: my PC had Backblaze backing up to the cloud, my wife’s PC had Veeam…
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After I got the Gen 8, it was testing time. I knew the roles I wanted for my new server: File Sharing Backup Plex Private Cloud Download Management SFTP Server VPN Server When the hardware arrived I had to improvise a bit, since the budget I had, was not enough for the “perfect configuration”, so…
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I had a QNAP TS-119 unit as my home NAS for as long as six years. It worked very well until recently it began to corrupt the OS data in the HDD as well as the USB HDD connected to the unit for backup. Even with a new HDD fitted in the unit and several…
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Learn to code decently in a specific language, once and for all.
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This mock trailer for a 80’s style sci-fi movie is pure awesomeness! Awesome marketing!
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This is sooooo 80’s! Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon is set to be released in May for PS3, X360 and PC as an whole game, as you don’t need the original Far Cry 3 to play it. The awesome sound track is by Powerglove and it’s an entire trip to the 80’s electronica. You can…