I'm starting my storj node operator (SNO) adventures during their alpha, and I am enjoying gathering statistics and whatnot - This post is devoted to the adventure - Right now, it is just a few scripts and stuff I am using: Here is my LogStash entry for Storj
It is time to replace Goomba... He's been a good little beast, but i am physically out of space to add more hard disks; and frankly, this case simply will not be good for long-term storage... I've decided to move to a GlusterFS cluster using system
I removed the live cams because the blizzard is over... here are some timelapses of the blizzard from both cameras.
Every once and a while, I like to post a little about what I have running in my "server room" (basement shelf). I have a rather large shelf in the back corner of my basement that looks a lot like this. Describing everything goes like this... Top Right:
The good old days at AU came up in a conversation at work today... Mark and Kurt, I still am confident that this was a ridiculous method of cable management, but I have to give it to you, it was MUCH more functional than all the cables sitting on the
I'd like to thank friends of Goomba for making him fatter! This brings the total drive count to 13, and once fully reconfigured, 27TB of redundant storage.
You know you are working with opensource software when a bugfix is labeled like this: #11331 Bug Important Can't destroy a zvol in GUI when iSCSI is enabled and system is possessed by evil spirits
I go through this fight every year... I pay for cable, and greedy tv channel owners DRM lock their channels so that people don't steal the content... The problem is, as a paying customer, I can't view their channel because I don't use a
Alright Friends of Yoshi --- The data drives on goomba are back online, and I am bringing all services back online slowly over the next 30 minutes. Things will be slow for the next day or so, as the data drives do their thing. <nerd> [******@goomba ~]$ zpool status
Calling all nerds.... I need help... I have a big problem, I need to find a cost efficient way to "fix" my poorly configured NAS server. Here's the dilemma: I have a server with 9 Hard drives: 6x3TB drives, 3x2TB drives, it's configured to
<nerd> I'd like to welcome Spiny to the family. </nerd>
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102098 Alright, I've been talking about it for a while... I'm "upgrading" my VMware environment to these, which means I'm selling two decent PCs. 1st: ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 AMD fx 8320 eight
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102002 Dear Santa - We work hard all day sharing Brad's nerdiness with the world, and we really could use 2 of these with 16g of RAM, word on the street is that they run VMware ESXi really well. Thank
If any of my nerd friends need DDNS, let me know... my server supports it... I can probably figure out a way to do it with your own domain too. Just let me know.
Thanks Mom for saving this wonderful nostalgia for me... This one's for my nerd friends. The old ISA motherboard/amd processor were MY first computer that I didn't share with my parents... the ABIT is the first one that I bought myself. [peg-image src="http:
Alrighty--- Did some cleaning up over the past few weekends... I came to realize I have about 8 SATA ports open on my server... who wants to give me 2TB+ hard drives?
New SAS card is working flawlessly! KoopaTroopa is happy again!
--- SERVICE OUTAGE NOTIFICATION --- Attention users, Yoshi will be down from 10PM - 1AM on Friday, 6/12/2015 for maintenance on a defective RAID card. Please contact customer service at 800-I-DONT-CARE if you have any questions or concerns.
Oh Comcast... Let me tell you a story about how I wasted more than 10 hours of my life. It all started on the Friday after Thanksgiving, when I was in Florida with my family. My wife and I had recently leased a new town home just down the road,