10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Part II
Before continuing, first a few notes on the previous iteration. Firmware. FreeNAS’s driver for the Chelsio card complained about the firmware version. The...
Month: November 2016
Teaching men to not rape
This is a response I gave on Facebook to someone who said Can’t we teach men not to rape at the same time as teaching women how to defend themselves? Oh w...
Smokers can never be considerate
Let’s see, where to begin — and this is coming from someone who grew up around a smoker that quit 20 years ago this coming January: 1. The root word...
Misconstruing free speech – #TrumpCup
On November 18, a woman named Sam Montgomery posted this to Twitter: I work at the Starbucks in Lexington, Kentucky and if anybody asks me to write Trump on the...
10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Part I
Right now my home network is entirely Gigabit — minus any wireless devices or laptops that are using “Fast Ethernet” (i.e. 100 Mbps). And the ...
Post-election (willful) ignorance
Let’s start with these two: “Will my marriage stay legal?” “Will Roe v. Wade be overturned?” Anyone who asks these questions obvio...
Naming children
I love my mother-in-law, I really do. But her baby name choice, Esmeralda, was not, I repeat, not, anywhere near the top of my baby name list. She knew that, I ...
Another glass of absinthe — II
In the interim, the R9 290X was put back into the system and the GTX 1080 pulled and sent back to NewEgg on RMA. Unfortunately NewEgg didn’t send out the ...
Integrating budgeting and accounting with GnuCash
There are a lot of approaches to budgeting and personal financial management, it seems. Some are rather complicated, while others make you wonder whether their ...
Referendum on the left
I knew from the outset that Trump would win Kansas last night. So my vote really didn’t really matter in the grand scheme of who would carry the night. On...