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Stardate: 20220117.1436 | |
Location: xiled rumination concentrator | |
Input Device: xrc console | |
Audio: silence of the xrc | |
Visual: xrc interior | |
Emotional State: mellow | |
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MLK greetings to those who observe! Even though I did not know him, | |
I reflect on his spirit today in the legacy and the lessons that he | |
has left for us. | |
I have been too fixated this past long weekend on the NASes | |
(NASen?...Neese?....Network Attached Storages?) Let me try that | |
again. I have been too fixated this past weekend on the NAS servers | |
that I discussed in my last phost.[1] I figured that I would just | |
stuff them in a 1U case, plug it in, and call it a day. But no, it | |
did not turn out to be that simple. It turned into a weekend | |
project. Before I write about that, some background. | |
Over the years, I have been gifted some discarded rackmounted | |
hardware. I've had a thing for rackmounted stuff for some time now. | |
It started when I dumpster dove a full-sized telco relay | |
rack and some rackmount shelves at the ISP I used to work for back | |
in the day. It used to live in the dining room of my apartment | |
when I was single, moved to the bedroom when I moved out west and | |
got married, and eventually was re-gifted to a member of the local | |
2600 group. My wife was done with having a telco relay rack with | |
all of the equipment noise in our bedroom and we were upgrading to | |
a larger apartment since my son was born. | |
By that time, I had quite a number of rackmounted devices with no | |
rack to put them in. It's not so nice to have rackmounted equipment | |
just sitting unmounted on tables. Rackmounted equipment needs to be | |
mounted to a rack. Eventually, I found a solution that allowed the | |
equipment to be mounted and was acceptable to my wife. What I found | |
was a desk that I saw at Guitar Center. | |
OK, I have been summoned. Time to exit the concentrator. | |
m0ar l8r. | |
[1] Last phost. | |
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