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Silent DIY rack cabinet

Admitting defeat

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Cordelia

Proxmox VE vs VMware vSphere

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

If you’re seeking to get involved in anything computer-related with the intent of making it a career, two concepts with which you really need to be famili...

Docker

OpenVPN on Docker

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

A self-hosted VPN is a simple and secure way to access your home or small business network. For small businesses, this is a great way to set up a VPN connection...

Server projects

Simple way to keep compute GPUs cool

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

First, a little bit of an update on my setup. After noticing it available for a good price from B&H Photo Video, I bought a second Zotac GTX 1060 3GB. And I...

Mining

Ethereum mining rig

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

For about the last month, I’ve been Ethereum mining, putting a GTX 1060 (“Rack 2U GPU Compute Node“) and 1070 (“Mira“), and an R9 ...

10Gb network upgrade

Revisiting the Quanta LB6M

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Back in January of this year, I acquired a Quanta LB6M to upgrade my home network to 10GbE, at least for the primary machines in the group. In recently also acq...

Absinthe

Absinthe to Amethyst

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Naming computer build projects tends to have an art behind it. Some builders have a certain finesse with it, while others… not so much. I chose the name &...

Raspberry Pi

Portable Raspberry Pi music player

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

On the road it’s nice to have your collection of music standing by to plug into your car. For that I’ve typically relied on a 16GB iPhone 3GS. My ve...

Silent DIY rack cabinet

Mistakes were made

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Wow… it’s been… months since the last part of this. So what in the hell has been happening? Well, in short, a lot. I’d been doing some t...

Colony West

Rack 2U GPU compute node

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

For the last couple years, I’ve more or less tried to use older hardware to donate compute time to various research projects. To varying degrees of succes...

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