Why didn’t anyone tell me…

“What, Dave, more?” you ask. Yes, I’m afraid so. I’m afraid so. Trying to keep it short this time.
All builds have a server, 4+ disk RAID5, and offer flexible storage expansion to keep them around for about 2 to 4 years. Each has a “Priced from scratch” number. Remember that this includes 4x $100 drives [...]

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One of the abstraction problems I had with plotting out home virtualization is that I’ve already solved a number of these problems, and I don’t have a dedicated budget to go about replacing my whole – working – infrastructure. But knowing how much electricity is lost and heat generated with each little power brick and [...]

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Apparently it’s time to start in on the project, as my Linksys router is melting. Getting any decent load on the router causes it to reset. This is especially problematic because it is the central switch in the network. That backup you were doing? Not so much. I borrowed a switch from the basement storage [...]

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In my previous post on the topic, I presented a couple alternative ways to get a lot of home infrastructure with little redundancy and some virtualization. The fact is, it’s pricey to do it ‘properly’. So I set out to look at the pros and cons of some alternative methods that make it a more [...]

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How will Dave centralize his home infrastructure?

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<daveb> or maybe I’ll just leave things alone and play video games instead
<nate>
<nate> always a good solution
<daveb> sat down last night to play some Gran Turismo and fell asleep BEFORE THE GAME STARTED.,
<nate> the load screen always takes a long time
<daveb> Dave Barry has a fun article something about The Snake, [...]

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Back Story
We finally stepped part way into the HD era, by attaching a PS3 to our SD television. Sacrilege, I know, but it’s what I have for now, and the economy isn’t getting any better this week. But, as we only have two games for it (Little Big Planet and Mater-National Racing), we have found [...]

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My wandering uses of Quicken started with very early versions on Mac OS, back in the black and white days. Then there was the new age of color macs, and then shortly after was the Windows Revolution, where they discovered that there were greener fields on green screens. Then, suddenly, there was not one product [...]

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I know I’m not alone in this one, but I bring it up because today was the day that I take the late morning to polish/glaze/wax my car, which is twice-a-year occurrence. Waxing is quarterly, but this job potentially eats into the clearcoat a touch, so you treat it like dentist visits.
The car is 11 [...]

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I have a perfectly good car, my camera is in great condition, my lens
collection is already too big, and yet, while I wait on installers to
finish locking up my computers at work, I’ve been looking at the new
BMWs, the new D3, the lenses that are better than mine, and so on.
What’s wrong with us humans [...]

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