Wiring a rental apartment for CAT5e (1Gbps, or even 10gbps) without rewiring
Pictures and procedures of my wife rewiring the apartment to CAT5e with zero cost. All it’s going to cost you is a bunch of cat5 plugs, possibly a cable crimping…
Pointyhair, the name comes from 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…