Month: May 2017
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I broke the chain 🙁
Unfortunately, timing and events conspired, and I broke my recent string of consistent posting each weekday yesterday. As such, my count gets to reset back to 0, and I start again. Overall, not a bad run, I think I managed nearly 2 months of consistent little articles, which for me is a personal best. And…
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The weekend project
Between rebuilding my FreeNAS server, editing gaming videos, traveling for work, and various other activities, my schedule is rather full these days. The latest challenge is an ask from the Cub Scouts to build a functional set of “rubber band” style catapults for use during Day Camp this year. Since that is rapidly approaching, and…
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FreeNAS configuration – the starting point
This listing will end up rather technical, but it is mainly for my own use, to catalog my current FreeNAS configuration and hardware specs. If you find it useful to model after, so much the better. As for general performance, I have been very happy with FreeNAS. As a comparison, we as a family routinely…
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FreeNAS 10 is dead, long live FreeNAS 11
So, after quite a bit of development and experimentation, I found out that apparently the Corral release of FreeNAS (FreeNAS 10.x) has been abandoned as unsupportable by the company that releases it. Fundamentally, I don’t fault them for their decision – if there are too many problems it doesn’t make sense to keep it going.…
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Scheduling change
The good news is that I will have a longer period of time before I am backlogged by our ongoing Pathfinder gaming schedule, and the associated video production. The bad news is that it is because we will not be playing the campaign during this week’s scheduled sessions. With school wrapping up, we have players…