Plague reborn in Devastation Quake ][
The last update for Plague was over fourteen years ago. My kids didn’t exist yet. The idea of my kids didn’t exist yet. But now that I am moving out of my colo and splitting my gear between a 42U…
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Create an Ubuntu AMI on Amazon Web Services with AWS utilities baked in.
I am in the middle of migrating my site out of my datacenter into Amazon Web Services and as a part of that I decided to build a WordPress site using the AWS reference architecture and best practices (more about…
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ZFS reading material
Comparing ZFS, traditional RAID and mirroring: The great thing about ZFS for home servers is that it gives you the power of RAID without the need to pay for expensive RAID-cards. In fact, the RAID options offered by ZFS rival…
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Memory Pressure in SQL Server 2012
I have been working on a SQL Server 2012 database project using Folding@home data pulled from here every hour. As a part of that project I’ve been working on performance tuning my queries to be responsive enough to run from…
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Re-synchronizing Windows passwords with the “Stored User Names and Passwords” tool
Recently I was having a problem on a Windows 7 PC where Outlook 2013 would randomly ask me for a password to connect to an Exchange mailbox. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get it to remember the new…
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windows server clustering
I was experimenting with windows server clustering On Windows Server 2003 and snapped these photos of my lab. My intention was to build a tiered web architecture using multiple load balanced web servers for the app and web layer and…
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Project: Home made 21U rack
I finally got around to building a cabinet for all of my computer gear. I have a lot of PCs for various reasons and decided to get rackable cases for them and stack them all up to keep things organized…
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Zalman Reserator installation
I recently installed a Reserator on Earthquake to get some practice with ultra-silent water cooling. This Zalman is some pretty amazing kit.
New Map List
Unbelievable that it’s been a year since I’ve last updated this page. My how time flies. By popular request, I’ve updated the map list with a bunch of new maps. It’s in a PAK file so all you have to…
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It’s been a year
I can’t believe that Plague has been churning away for a year, hosting Rainwalk.net! In a totally unintentional celebration of that event, I’ve replaced the storage on this drive with something a bit more modern, replacing the LVD-80 drives with…
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