Category Archives: New Toys

Pre Thanksgiving Prep 2025

Posted on November 26, 2025 by larry

Doing a quick post, but family all here. Gonna get ready for tomorrow, pretty sure everyone will be home the entire day unless picking up things or people. House needs to get cleaned but a lot of things already in … Continue reading →

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Hump Day Tuesday

Posted on November 25, 2025 by larry

Shortened week so today is the middle of the week. I still got a lot of things to work on, am working late to try and catch up. More to hope tomorrow is more quiet. Doing a quick post. Got … Continue reading →

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Feeling Weird

Posted on November 24, 2025 by larry

Been really tired lately, part of the blame is lack of sleep. But also just feeling weak in general. Maybe it is the zepbound, or weather. Could be both. Taking heavy advantage the online sales this time of the year. … Continue reading →

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KVM over IP

Posted on November 23, 2025 by larry

Had this little device for a while now finally put it to use. Amazing how nicely it works. Provides out of band access to one of my computers. Speaking of computers, got my mediacenter upgraded and am going through some … Continue reading →

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Network And Data Reorg

Posted on November 21, 2025 by larry

Gonna spend the weekend trying to reorganize my office network. Just my office. Trying to clean up make it easier to function. In reality, I need to get rid of stuff. There are some things that do not need to … Continue reading →

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Moving Weekend

Posted on November 20, 2025 by larry

OK not physically moving homes but moving data and parts. Currently as I post I am moving data from an 3.5 inch disk to a 2.5 inch SSD. The data taken up is only 28GB and the file system is … Continue reading →

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HBA Functional

Posted on November 19, 2025 by larry

I didn’t have to crossflash it but the HBA is functional. It is SAS 9300, got it on my bench. After I finished I rebooted to CentOS7 and it looked fine. Thinking of doing Rocky 9 as well. Got the … Continue reading →

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JBOD Section Done

Posted on November 18, 2025 by larry

Got my first JonsBro N3, 3D printed system done. Needed those correct inserts and they just worked. I tested out access one of the drives using a USB to SATA connection. It worked!!! The JBOD rack is done. Hoping there … Continue reading →

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Update On New DIY JBOD

Posted on November 17, 2025 by larry

Before I give an update, I want to say that it may be cheaper to buy a purpose built case, I am doing three of these so I got a little bit of that economy of scale going for me. … Continue reading →

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Been Over A Month

Posted on November 16, 2025 by larry

Been over a month since Toto left us. The healing continues though, but seems to moving too slow. I touched his memorial today, reminded me of him being around. Life is quiet, not ready for a new dog… yet. Almost … Continue reading →

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