Author: Rob

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I May have a problem. So I have a rack, and what good is a rack if you don’t have any servers? I have servers, so I need storage. Then I say something about girl bossing too close to the sun and that 62TB of storage may indicate that I have a problem. “62TB That’s […]

Background I have a lot of servers spread out, some at work and some at home, and I want to manage all of these servers from one place. I created Steve to accomplish many of the day-to-day tasks I need to do on my servers. Steve will check for updates, install updates, restart, make an […]

Background I work in a school district, and we recently removed most of our windows PC from the classroom in favor of Chromebooks for students. This was the overwhelming outcome of COVID for most school districts. This surplus of computers is destined for the recycling pile. However, They could contain precious user/student data and therefore […]

Yes, the rsync solution worked well at speeding up my site. No, it did not allow me to delete files.

Why Rob, Why! I find most of my projects stem from boredom and the inability to not f*ck with my server. So to that, I say, “I don’t know.” Sometimes I have to do dumb things because they can be done, and this is one of those times. Why not load my entire web directory […]

Old “Lab” Yep, this was my home lab circa 2005 (above). Five pcs on the floor, all single-thread AMD Athalon, and four gigs of ram. I was running MTGO YaTBoT trading MTGO Cards, one bot per PC. I took this lab apart long ago, and mom and Dad were probably happy to have this mess […]