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Amethyst

Revisiting Amethyst – More color testing

Posted on September 29, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Recall in the previous article on this that I’d purchased touch-up paint, specifically Mopar Deep Amethyst Pearl, which was a paint used on Dodge Neons an...

Amethyst

Revisiting Amethyst – A different look

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Nasira

Nasira with a little SAS

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

So I’ve had Nasira for a little over two years now. Here are the current specifications: And it’s running FreeNAS. Which is currently booting off a ...

First water cooled build

Kyle’s catastrophic failure

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

First water cooled build

Defending AlphaCool and the risks of water cooling

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Colony West

Volunteer distributed computing is important

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Cryptocurrencies have enjoyed much the focus over the last couple years – and especially over the last 12 months – with regard to distributed comput...

Cordelia

New virtualization server

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Recently I discussed my move from VMware’s ESXi virtualization setup to Proxmox. In that article, I discussed eventually migrating everything from the exi...

Plex

Migrating a Plex Media Server to another system

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Mining

When Windows Defender says you’re mining viruses

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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 ...

Amethyst

Amethyst

Posted on February 17, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The simplest solutions will often present themselves, provided you’re willing to open your mind to them. If anything would be the theme to the transition ...

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