I’ve switched from the standard off-the-shelf router you’d find in big box stores and the like in favor of a combination of Ubiquiti’s EdgeRouter X and a couple of their PoE AP Lites. It’s been rock solid, but after messing with my internal network over the past couple of days I noticed I was no […]
Author Archives: Pat Hartl
Running macOS in VirtualBox
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309654-run-vanilla-os-x-el-capitan-sierra-yosemite-or-mavericks-in-virtualbox-5010-on-a-windows-host/ I just got this working again tonight. Now on my server I am running a macOS VM that will let me install macOS Server and allow some finer controls over my devices. The big thing I am excited for is creating a unified HTPC image using netboot. It’s my early IT days all over […]
Server Configuration 2017
The last time I wrote about my server was three years ago. A lot has changed since then. Here’s some of the main points: I dropped RAIDZ and have moved onto RAIDZ2. This gives me two parities per vdev RAIDZ2 requires at least 5 disks in a vdev. I chose to go with 7 which […]
Flextight Precision II on Windows 7/8/10
My father was a photographer for around 35 years and towards the end of the 20th century he purchased a Imacon (now Hasselblad) Flextight Precision II hybrid film scanner. This was back in the days where digital photography wasn’t feasible for quality and film was king. The Flextight allowed him to scan negatives into a digital […]