jonlumley here’s the Minecraft world
If you are jonlumley here’s the Narnia Minecraft world that I can no longer host from my server because I’m stuck behind a Verizon NAT. The rest of you can ignore this. https://app.box.com/s/3kce0g5eap5jzz3316tg
My Verizon 4G LTE Rural Internet Setup
I’ve had a few people ask for more details on my rural internet setup with Verizon, so here it is… Update 2018. It has been 4 years since I wrote this post. I would suggest getting newer equipment than what I blogged about, I know a few people running the CradlePoint MBR1200B which is what … Read more
SHA256 Hash Stored Procedure for SQL Server 2008
The other day I was writing an ETL where I expected duplicate data to be accidentally sent over quite often so I needed an SHA-256 function to guarantee that a set of incoming rows were unique (notice I said the set of rows, not individual rows so that rules out using an index to prevent … Read more
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Update 2013-12-23: Using the internet access on my phone I’ve moved the website to another server (thanks Jeff!) So the website is back up. My internet is going down until Jan 1st. Looks like I forgot to disable my CrashPlan backup again (unfortunately CrashPlan doesn’t offer a way to stop backing up to CrashPlan … Read more
Phil Robertson Suspended for His Faith
I saw the above headline on the Drudge Report last night. I just discovered the show a few months ago and have been enjoying it, it’s a great clean humorous show with good American and Christian values. Normally I just read the headlines, but in this case I had to see what all the fuss … Read more
Quicken 2014. Horrible.
Dear Intuit, I’ve been a long time Quicken user, my dad taught me to use Quicken for DOS to track money in my “Bank of Dad” account. My current Quicken file which I started in college after opening my bank account has data back since 2001. For the last 12-years I’ve loyally purchased a new … Read more
Dr. Ben Carson: Obamacare ‘Worst Thing That Has Happened in This Nation since Slavery’
Dr. Ben Carson’s excellent speech at the Values Voter Summit 2013.
Website back up
My Xeoned Microserver caught fire and burned up! Just kidding. |:-) A few weeks ago out of the blue a real-estate agent told me the house we’re renting was going to be put on the market. I was surprised because owners typically list in Spring or Summer when people are looking to buy a house, … Read more
M1015 HBA In the HP Gen8 Microserver
Here’s a quick overview of installing the IBM ServerRaid M1015 HBA (aka LSI SAS9220-8i) in the HP Gen8 Microserver. These cards can be bought for around $100 on eBay. The HBA has two 6Gbps SAS ports (each port has 4 lanes, each lane is 6Gbps giving a theoretical maximum of 24Gbps per port and 48Gbps … Read more
Installed Xeon E3-1230V2 in Gen8 HP Microserver
Thanks to a homeservershow forum member keeping track of prices I ordered the HP Gen8 Microserver 1610T … of course, nobody wants to run VMWare on a Celeron so obviously the first thing to try is installing a Xeon processor. Update April 12, 2020. The 8th Gen HP Microserver is outdated. If you have one … Read more