New House Projects - Weather Watching V0.5
I've always been fascinated with the weather. I can still remember the daily routine of charting the weather in kindergarten with meticulous scientific rigor: Each morning one pupil, on a rotation, wo...
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New House Projects - Network 2.0
Ok - So, take one of this project didn't go as planned. I don't regret the choices I made, and while I'm very happy with how everything is working today. it's not the setup I had hoped for. So, where...
New House Projects - Network Planning and Setup
EDIT - 11.1.2024 - I have changed many of the equipment choices listed below, which will be another blog post. The equipment from FS has been a total disaster, and the Qotom firewall, while effective,...
Simple Linux Kernel Picker
I run Fedora in my home-lab as the base OS for my server. It works well for me but I do occasionally run into an issue where Fedora will make a new kernel available before the ZFS project has support...
Installing WeeWx on Centos 8 - The Basics
I've long been a weather nerd, and some years ago I finally invested in a personal weather station with all the sensors you could want. Temperature and humidity? Of course! Wind speed and direction? A...
Behringer X-Live - Splitting 32 Channel WAV Files and Deleting Silence
At my church we use a Behringer X32 mixer to run Sunday services and we added an X-Live card, instead of the included USB Audio interface card, so we can record our services, multi-tracked, direct to an SD card. This has saved a lot of recording overhead, since we don't need a PC, display, etc., but
Install Centos 6 on a Non-PAE Machine
I have a Thecus N5200 that was modified to have a VGA port. Though the machine will run a variety of current Linux distributions, I wanted it to run Centos 6. Unfortunately, the N5200 doesn't support...
Thecus N5200 as a Server
Back in 2007, I bought a Thecus N5200 to use as bulk storage on my network. I've spent many years using and fighting with the unit but it wasn't until my storage needs out grew the 5 SATA disks it cou...