Revisiting Amethyst – A different look
In building Amethyst, transitioning the build from a green themed system called Absinthe, there were two places I used 16mm OD PETG tubing. First was in front o...
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Nasira with a little SAS
So I’ve had Nasira for a little over two years now. Here are the current specifications: CPU: AMD FX-8350 with Noctua NH-D9L Mainboard: ASUS Sabertooth 99...
Kyle’s catastrophic failure
It was only a matter of time before one of the popular YouTube content creators had a catastrophic failure similar to what my wife and I experienced about 4 yea...
Defending AlphaCool and the risks of water cooling
Four years ago, in late March 2014, I had my first attempt at a water-cooled system. Using my wife’s computer as the guinea pig. About two months later, I...
Volunteer distributed computing is important
Cryptocurrencies have enjoyed much the focus over the last couple years – and especially over the last 12 months – with regard to distributed comput...
New virtualization server
Recently I discussed my move from VMware’s ESXi virtualization setup to Proxmox. In that article, I discussed eventually migrating everything from the exi...
Migrating a Plex Media Server to another system
Note: This is a how-to for migrating a Plex Media Server from one Linux system to another Linux system. This is not about changing platforms. Recently I migrate...
When Windows Defender says you’re mining viruses
This was a rather frustrating development. I have two computers dedicated to mining Ethereum, and I also mine it on Mira. All three machines had Windows 10 and ...
Admitting defeat
As you can probably tell, this hasn’t been a huge priority for me, given how many months it’s been since the last update. I haven’t given up o...