Author: Halfling13
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Happy Memorial Day
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A special thanks to all those that serve or have served in the military, as the United States celebrates Memorial Day.
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Ark: Survival
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The last few days have been rather hectic, as shows in my recent posts – my focus has been a bit all over. Work has been rather crazy, several major outages and other critical work, resulting in long hours. And we have had a resurgence in interest in Ark: Survival, starting from scratch on the…
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Catapults ready for summer camp
As a project for the Cub Scouts, for this year’s summer camp, I am constructing a pair of sling-shot style catapults for the kids. This weekend was the final time I have to finish them, and I managed to complete all the pieces and do at least a test assembly. The real test of course…
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I broke the chain 🙁
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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
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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
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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…