In my previous post, I mentioned the Immich server internal disk’s space is filling up faster than expected. I have decided to add a USB drive, an old 1TB WD My Passport, to hold the photos and the arr stack…
Let’s give Immich some GPU
Immich uses machine learning to extract info like text and faces from the photos. To aid this, it can use the GPU like any AI.
New Immich server
Trying baby steps on my new home lab, a new Immich server. The Windows based one broke because I installed on a dirty uninstall. To make things fun, I poked around too much under the hood, and it broke.
My home lab
I have decided to setup my home lab to learn new virtualization software and Docker. This is also to prevent my experiments from killing my PC. The 8GB of RAM is causing horrible disk swapping,
Adding VLANs to UCS blade
UCS blade and new VLANs. I thought I have never have to do this but it came up.
Dell Server, importing new disks into a RAID volume.
I was caught flat-footed when trying to import a used disk into a mirror set. One of the disks in the mirror set was removed for disaster recovery trials.
Notable Security Vulnerabilities for 2017
2017 has been an exciting time for discovering security vulnerabilities. There are some that hold your companies assets to ransom. Others can be career ending. So I thought to compile a list to keep track. Remember there is still 2…
Racking Cisco UCS C220 server
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) C220 server is a line of proprietary servers to run various applications like WLC, ACS, ISE, Prime etc. These applications are Linux based but it can also be a VMware hypervisor. The customizations of the…
Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL
Heartbleed bug or exploit in SSL and you.
RISC microprocessors

CPU photo from Wood be Nice ARM microprocessors have been making the headlines. I thought I dig up my undergraduate paper on Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) microprocessors. This was written in 1995 with the resources of a small library.…
