Derek Martin

Having a big family means making sacrifices. I had my own closet in the house to run my noisy server. It paired nicely with the wiring drop for all the wires in the

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Now that my two servers are built, it's time to build the ultimate VM - my daily non-work driver. There's something special about this VM though: This will not do. In fact, it

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So, Linux VMs imported fine - this is good. There was some wonkiness with the network adapters as HyperV names them different, so I had to adjust the netplans to match the new

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A long time ago, I came upon some 8TB WD USB3 drives. They serve a decent purpose in my ghetto fabulous compute server - they were the data drives for all the joy

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In our last encounter, I had teased you with my need for more. Specifically, more storage since I had ditched all those spinning disks. I've been a YouTube Premium subscriber for like ten

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About two years ago, I purchased myself a pretty sweet deal on Ebay: Dell RX730xd 2 x 2.5Ghz Xeon Gold 128 GB ECC RAM 28 TB RAW 2 x 1oGB Ethernet and

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I really love my network at home and the small network I've built over the past few years up in the cloud. It's gone through a number of machinations to suit my needs,

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When one simple thing breaks, the fix is definitely gonna be more complex. But, at least I learned a few new Azure tricks!

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For the longest time, my network has been rock solid. Recently, however, a single device (my work one of course) has started misbehaving. Here's the drill: 1. A complete Ubiquiti setup - we're

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There are times when I'm happy, but sad at the same time. This has always been the case, but it comes into sharp relief when I'm not sad at anyone, but rather, the

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When in doubt - host it yourself. Unless you don't know how, then let Cloudron help you.

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Bitcoin, Ethereum, and now...Blockstack? Oh yes - and it is so good.

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