In the hopes I’ll be using my blog more, I purchased a new camera. The old point and shoot I had was a Canon ELPH 310 HS. Not a bad camera by any means, it had the same resolution as…
Travel Laptop
So, I’ve been enjoying a new Lenovo T470 laptop after my Dell died a few months back. Hopefully, it continues to perform but thus far it’s served me well. I have to admit it’s handled the travel well after 3…
Submarine back afloat
So I’ve finally got around to fixing Submarine. It’s still not 100% (overheating problems still), but is better and can run without issues. I’ve swapped out the PSU for a Corsair SF450. It produces much more power than my old…
Submarine is sinking
Sadly, the HTPC Submarine (mentioned previously) is having cooling issues again. The CPU heatsink cooler is now rubbing against the underside of the Blu-Ray Drive and making a noise. I tried to put a shim between the two but then…
GoPro Camera Purchase
I’ve got a bunch of outdoors activities planned that are active, so having a GoPro would allow me to document them. The two GoPros I was looking at was the Hero 4 Silver or the Hero 4 Session. The Hero 4…
Upgrading Kernel to update BTRFS
I’ve been running my desktop with 5x drives in RAID 1 under BTRFS. I would have loved to run them in RAID 5 but sadly until recently, BTRFS RAID 5 was broken so I was forced to RAID 1 for…
Rocking the Cisco Classes
So, I passed CNT150AA though Glendale Community College and also got a 75%+ score on the final and thus earned a discount on the ICND1 test. So happy that class is over with, it became very hectic at the end.…
Desktop partial refresh
The primary driver of the refresh was my ASUS M3A78 Pro motherboard had finally stopped working. I purchased a cheap ASRock A785GXH motherboard as a replacement off eBay. My main requirements were a PCI-e 16x and PCI-e 4x slot and…
Running out of resources in ESXi
Since I passed the Windows test, I’ve reinstalled ESXi 5.5 on my Dell 1950. It’s nice to be able to run multiple VMs on one system each providing a dedicated service! The downsides are they eat memory and hard…
Next Steps
With the 74-409 text passed, I’m now starting to do non-Hyper-V stuff on my lab network. My next cert I plan on getting is my CCNA from Cisco. While I’m flying and training toward my ATP, I plan on doing…