Blog Retired (for now)
Marking the long over due retirement of the blog as life/work and other hobbies have taken me away from tech blogging.
Project Fi Network Switching & Dial Codes
After a day or two of spotty outbound service at the house on two different Project Fi accounts, using both my Nexus 6 as well as my Nexus 6P, so I decided to reach out to support. After some troubleshooting we were able to determine that it was a T-Mobile specific issue that was effecting … Read more
Dell PowerEdge 13th Gen Fan Noise
I recently came across the opportunity to assist a client with installing their new Dell PowerEdge R730XD. Quite the beefy server config, 2x10core CPUs, 128GB of RAM, 12x4TB NL-SAS, you know, all the goodies. This machine is slated to replace an aging T610 that has seen better days performance-wise. I went ahead and put an … Read more
Proxmox Lab: Intel NUC
Thanks for reading this first post in a new series I am putting together titled “Proxmox Lab”. In this blog series I will be covering various things related to Proxmox and the various hardware I have tested things on. In this installment we will discuss a small foot print low power build that you can … Read more
Power Consumption Table
This page is reserved for keeping track of power usage of commonly used systems and components. Eventually this should be combined into a sort able table but this will do for now. Dell Power Edge T430 PSU: 495W CPU(s): System powered off: 8W Idle 0 drive(s): 108W Idle 1x2TB Constellation SAS drive(s): 119W Idle 4x2TB … Read more
FreeNAS on the Lenovo TS440
With a recent build fresh on the brain I figured I’d share some thoughts on the hardware used as I hope it helps others. I googled and tried to find information ahead of time and found sparse info. Recently, I set out to replace my current small office FreeNAS box. From a performance standpoint the … Read more
Backing Up IIS 7.0 Quickly & Easily
I recently needed to install an IIS based web app for a client and wanted to be sure that everything was backed up. I found a really simple and fast way to do just that by following the steps outlined over on this blog post.
Adobe CS2 & Windows 7
If you have Adobe CS2 and plan to install to a Windows 7 machine, please note the following: The installation program will NOT recognize the Program Files (x86) folder and will not allow installation in the Program Files. Through browsing for the folder you may get the program to install. However, when you try to … Read more