Jul 29 2019

Home server update

Just a quick update on my home server.  I finally got a chance to try out the replacement KCMA-D8 board I got.  Sadly it does not have working video.  Thankfully the seller is shipping me another one.  I also talked to my wife and she agrees that we can mount it on the wall in the mechanical room to reduce the temperature in the crawlspace under the stairs.  While not an ideal location, it is better than where it sites now since the mechanical room is always open (litter boxes for the cats).  I am hoping it won’t get too hot in there in the winter with the server, the water heater & the furnace in there.

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Jul 29 2019

Temperature & Humidity Sensors

I’m planning on starting to make some 433MHz temperature & humidity sensors based on this Instructable.  I will also have to build a programmer, based on this Instructable.

Parts list for the programmer (Amazon works best for me) is as follows.

The parts list for the sensors is as follows

As you can see, I made some substitutes to work with what I can find on Amazon but for the most part it is the same component.s

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Jul 13 2019

Home server

Well,

Last night I moved my home server from an old crappy tower case to a Rosewill RSV-L4500 4U rackmount case.  No rack to put it in so it sits on its side but oh well.  So much room in it, plenty of room for my ASUS KCMA-D8 motherboard.  Will be really nice when I get the replacement board so I can use both CPU sockets and have 16 true cores and hopefully 128GB of RAM.  If not, I’ll have either 64GB (like I do now) or 96GB of RAM.  Both of which are a huge improvement over the 24GB I had before.

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Jun 19 2019

funtoo Linux

I’ve decided that I really have no reason to have Windows on my laptop since I don’t use it all that often so tonight I’m going to embark on installing funtoo Linux on it.  It will most definitely be an interesting time but given the age of my laptop shouldn’t have to many surprises.

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Jun 19 2019

Habitat for Humanity

Participated in my first Habitat for Humanity build yesterday.  Hung drywall, I’m glad I participated but god do I hurt today.  Gives me a new appreciate for people that do that kind of work as a living.

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Jun 16 2019

Home Server

I must say, I am really liking unRAID on my home server.  It is working great for what I need.  Next steps for the server are to swap out the Core i7-4770 CPU, motherboard & RAM for dual Opteron 4280s, dual socket C32 board and 64GB of ECC RAM.  At some point, I will get a Rosewill L-4500 case as well.

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Jun 10 2019

Pi-hole

I have decided to run Pi-hole at home again.  I just got tired of all the ads making pages take forever to load.  However, I have had to add some ad sites to the Whitelist just to get things working (I’m looking at you PBS Roku app).  I may have gone overkill on what I block, but better safe than sorry.  Especially because my kids are just about to the point of going online.  If you’d like my lists, let me know and I can post them.

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May 13 2019

Mothers Day

Well, we had a successful Mothers Day.  My wife’s favorite present was our oldest son telling her that he wouldn’t wipe off any kisses for the entire day.  I think her favorite present I gave her was either telling her to go lay down or replacing the radiator in her mini-van

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May 7 2019

Weird Hobby

My wife loves her crocheting.  No big deal and not that weird.  Me being the good husband I am however decided to write an app that will allow her to quickly generate a temperature blanket pattern.  For those that don’t know, a temperature blanket is where you assign a color to a temp or range of temps and then track the high or low temp for a year.  You use that to determine what color each day will be.  Also means that even with the same color mapping, each year would be a different pattern.  I am close to done and I cannot wait to have her use it.

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Apr 16 2019

Minor bike upgrades

Just picked up some minor “upgrades” for my bike.  Specifically new tires to make it easier to commute on it.  Got some Diamondback Hybrid/Comfort Tires.  Should be a lot easier to commute with it.  Also got some Schwalbe Bicycle Tire Levers to make it easier to swap between my street tires and offroad tires.

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