On my vSphere 6.7 host, I frequently need to setup a new VM for various projects — some long term, some short term. Since this doesn’t happen too often, I tend to need to lookup a few configuration steps every time. List Available Timezones: timedatectl list-timezones Set Timezone to PT sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Los_Angeles Update system packages: sudo apt-get update…
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DoE Flame Effects Receiver
In Collaboration with the Dragons of Eden and Illumination Village, we have created the first revision of a standardized wireless controller for Flame Effects Devices. While it’s targeted at flame effects, it’s also a robust and inexpensive platform for other IoT use cases.
Read MoreSynology SSD Cache on External Devices – Part 2 – Forced Failure
After the write up on using external drives for the SSD cache, I shared the article with the wonderful community on Reddit for feedback. As a point of order, the intention of this research is to enable the support of an SSD cache. While this does also enable the ability to extend the volume with external drives, that is out…
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Read Part Two of this topic: Synology SSD Cache on External Devices – Part 2 – Forced Failure My Synology DS1513+ has been working great for 6 years and was a direct replacement for an old EMC NAS. The EMC was good too but the software support for a home user just wasn’t there. This is where the Synology really…
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