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  • Love me some Linux

    So everyone knows that Linux is the ultimate toy for computer geeks, it can do anything, do it well and do it free. It was a little over two years ago I broke down and bought a Dell PowerEdge T30. I know, it’s about as entry level as you can get. 8Gb of RAM and 1 TB hard drive but it is sporting a 4x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1225 v5 @ 3.30GHz. I did upgrade the RAM to 16Gb (wow ECC memory is steep). And the coup de grace was finding 3Tb SAS drives on New Egg for $50 apiece. Bought 4 of those bad boys and spent $30 for a h310 card and have a RAID 5 striped 8Tb volume to play with. Only have mounted 1Tb and still have tons of room.

    In any case, I’m super excited to have the email piece up and running using postfix and dovecot. Some people say “big deal, it’s email”, to which I just sigh. The fact that email is ubiquitous belies the complexity of actually getting one of these set up and functioning. With that said I’m super excited to say I’ve got it up and running for multiple domains both sending and receiving. OK, it’s still using flat files to map users but I’m working on getting it setup on MySQL so more to come on that end.

  • New Chop Saw

    So we’re doing some work in the spare bedroom closet and I needed a way to cut a long board in equal length pieces for shelving. Yes I could have done it free hand with a circular saw or jig saw but for truly professional cuts, you want a miter saw, or even better a compound double miter saw! So I dropped about $300 on a miter saw and stand.

    So I know this is a bit overkill for half a dozen shelves but this provides the tools to fill a deeper need. I really want to build something, I’ve settled on a shed, a big shed (12×16) and yes I make enough that I could hire someone to do it and have a shed built in about a week. But I want to build it, I want to learn how to fabricate it, I want to be able to say look at this, I built it. So now that I have the primary tool to do this I’m eliminating my excuses to get it built.