Pointyhair, the name comes Dilbert cartoon, the pointyhaired boss.
Actually the domain name got its start because a colleague of mine, one day sent me a bit silly email — he forged the address as manager@pointyhair.com, which gave me…
Managing a number of NUCs for web/email/LLM servers for fun, I like to automate as much as reasonable, but all in Linux (Ubuntu, Jetson Nano & CentOS).
More to come as time permits — I have a number of posts in the queue. Jetson Nano — got it bumped to Jetpack 6 recently, amazing speed increase, as…
KVMs
KVMs (PiKVM and JetKVM) so I don’t have to crawl into the server closet (comparison) I recently got two types of KVMs: Given the usage, the PiKVM with the 12…
Using LVM2 for a resilient scalable drive array, with script to re-initialize array
63 terabytes of storage built from 8 USB drives in “RAID 1” configuration — I.e. you don’t lose data even if one drive goes dead. A bit of background: I…
I Like the NUCs (fanless tiny servers, except when the heatwave happens)
I have a tower built on NUCs built to serve email/web/VPN/wifi/etc Only after the California Heatwave did I realize that you can’t just stash the whole system in a closet…