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After ten years, I’m back
After a decade away, I’ve decided to resume documenting some of my many technology diversions. A couple weeks back, I finally broke down and reworked my ArcadeCab.com site to make it more user-friendly. This was a long, long overdue task that had never quite made it to the top of my project list, but felt…
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Ordered memory from Chinese ebay seller computex_tech
28 comments on Ordered memory from Chinese ebay seller computex_techAs I mentioned in a previous post, I thought it time to attempt a ram boost in the VMWare server. This would be to give me more headroom to do some Windows 10 testing. My normal suppliers (Newegg and Amazon) either didn’t have the DDR2 memory or it was priced like gold. So I decided…
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(Trying to) Upgrade memory in ESXi server
My ESXi server has been faithfully serving me for the past five years. As noted previously, it has just 8GB of ram installed (4x2GB). No, you did not misread that; eight gigabytes. This has been fine for my needs as the virtual machines running are not ram-hungry. The 2003 server, vortexbox, Openmediavault and an XubuntuLTS…
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Open Media Vault (OMV) on my ESXi server
Background Openfiler had been serving me reliably for about four years but had begun to seriously slow down as my media pool grew. My project of ripping all my DVDs and BluRays to the pool had slowly increased the pool size. The data was spread across three independent drives in the server (I don’t use…
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Plex Media Server on Windows 2003 ESXi virtual machine
I’m always looking for ways to (cheaply) extend the capabilities of my home network. I have an XBMC box connected to our primary TV/speaker system, which is driven by media stored on an OpenFiler vm on my ESXi server. That works wonderfully and is easy enough for my children to navigate. There have been times…
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