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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…
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Ten years ago, I couldn’t stand either. Jazz sounded like a dissonant chaos. Whisky burned on the way down. Both felt like they belonged to someone older, wiser — someone else entirely, but not mine. I discovered the wonders of traditional wet shaving in 2017.This was how my grandfather used to shave — a double-edged…
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It has been almost 10 years since I stopped blogging. With the focus changing from blogging to social media, I lost the attention span, the time and motivation I usually dedicated to this… also, I found that my opinions and posts became mostly a drop in an ocean of echoes. When I and others started…
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Do you love Dune? I do. It’s one of my favorite books of all time. And the movie? David Lynch’s take on the story is the best we’ll have until someone comes along and shoots another Dune movie. Still, there are guys like this one that go beyond everything and make a cut from all the released…
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Rest in peace Mr. Iwata. Many thanks for all your ideas and work at Nintendo.
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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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The problem here isn’t the money this young man is making with his videos… the problem is that there are 37 million souls watching him playing games instead of spending that time playing games themselves, which to me makes no sense at all. It might be a sign that I’m getting old, but I rather play…
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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…