Well it’s been another year, and another Lustre User Group meeting. There were many interesting discussions which took place. Though in general I found the most useful session to be after the LUG was completed. The developer meeting, for me … Continue reading
So recently I decided to add one of these dimmers to my kitchen lighting, which is on a standard 3-way (double switch) circuit. The folks at home depot, as well as all of the available documentation (including the box it … Continue reading
So over the last few years I’ve been a very simple HTPC setup. It consisted of an Intel E4500, 4GB ram system with a GTX 780 Nvidia card running Kubuntu Linux 12.04. For storage I booted off a simple USB … Continue reading
So interestingly I noticed that as soon as I upgraded to the 3.19 kernel (RC5 in my case) I was no longer able to connect to any internal machines on my corporate VPN. Interestingly my private OpenVPN services still all … Continue reading
Well, another year has gone by and another Super computing conference. This years SC14 conference was held in New Orleans. The notable things I found this year, at least things I found interesting where the 8TB archival drive from Seagate, … Continue reading
I’ve taken five minutes to generate a new splash screen for my new XPS 13 laptop, it’s a silhouette of the famed Russian Sputnik satellite: Download here
So the last month or so I’ve been working on replacing my aging FreeBSD 7.4 RELENG server, running the stable, but some what scary GEOM RAID5 hack (vintage 2008). The system was a total hack, running in an old mid-tower … Continue reading
Below is a simple script I use almost daily which I thought I would share with you all. The script fetches various URL’s then extracts all hyper links from the fetched data. It cleans them up a bit and prints … Continue reading
Well I finally had some time at the end of the day today to finish the FP836 front panel restoration. About the only thing it needed was two new LED’s for the faults. Unfortunately to my dismay the thermal fault … Continue reading
So after sorting the pin out of the FP836 module here, I’ve created a new wiring harness. It’s reasonably simple with IDC single pin connectors and 1 IDC 2×8 16 pin male header. This allows me to connect directly to … Continue reading