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10Gb network upgrade/Product and service reviews

Quanta LB6M

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 8 Comments

So let’s talk about that 10GbE switch I bought on eBay. First, loud is too soft a word to describe this. It has two 1U power supplies and three 40mm fans....

10Gb network upgrade

10Gb home network – Retrospective

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Significant time and some not-insignificant expense went into bringing this project to fruition. Only to be surpassed by something significantly better and less...

10Gb network upgrade

10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Zone 2 switch – Part 2

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Last I left I mentioned that I was waiting for some hardware to arrive. The SFP+ transceivers and optical fiber cables along with a power supply from EVGA’...

Children/Feminism/Health/Health care/Sex

Making decisions

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Recently came across this gem from Occupy Democrats Logic on Facebook: This is yet another of the many contradictions with regard to the left and standing laws....

Mira

Another pass by Mira – II

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Not long after posting the last part of this build log, I discovered that AlphaCool distributed their own decoupling fastener kit. Four fasteners, screws, washe...

Feminism/Marriage and Relationships

Micro-cheating

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ve defended flirting while married or in a committed relationship. I believe it’s something that can be a part of a healthy relationship, provided...

Politics

Let’s talk about 2016

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

So I’m not allowed to talk about my two nephews being born, the new better job I started at the start of the year, delivering a computer project to a frie...

10Gb network upgrade

10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Zone 2 switch – Part 1

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

With the first zone effectively done, it was time to plan the second switch. The requirements here are a little more involved than the Zone 1 switch: 10GbE upli...

Electoral College

Electoral College math experiment

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

With a lot of buzz going about the Electoral College and the fact that Trump won the electoral vote despite Clinton winning the popular vote, I opted to conduct...

Mira

Another pass by Mira

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Well the time has come again to take another pass by the distant binary star system Mira… Okay, perhaps not. Instead the time has come to revisit the comp...

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