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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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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 Valhalla world, and using the Survival Plus mod. This changes the game extensively, which has been a challenge learning. Unfortunately, that added to the schedule, and this last week has been several very late night, grinding just a few more pieces of wood or stone.
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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 will be putting them together and seeing if they actually work, but that won’t come until the start of summer camp on June 19. In the meantime, here are a couple of pictures. The first is of one of the “legs”, assembled to test how…
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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 it was enough to form the start of a habit, such that it was nagging me yesterday when I realized I was going to miss my target time. In related notes, I am still working on the last Pathfinder video, it is a bit later…
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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 I have few weekends to complete the task, this weekend is the designated window for construction. When we say rubber-bands, we are really talking about large springs or bungee cords – enough force to launch a kickball or similar object a decent distance, with enough…
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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 run 2 or 3 720p video streams from Plex, or 2 1080p video streams, with rarely any issues and virtually no lag or buffering. This while the server is also handling all the other activities like Crashplan backups, downloads, etc. Should be noted, this is…
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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. Unfortunately, since I took the leap from 9.10 to 10.x, I no longer have an upgrade or migration path to the planned version 11.x, set to release next week, and my current version will eventually no doubt develop critical errors (or at least security concerns).…
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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 taking family vacations and others preparing for Summer Camp commitments, and we simply wont have enough players at a fairly critical stage of the storyline. Fortunately, that time allows me to spend more time completing the tasks I have, including properly editing the last session…
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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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