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What I Use | Bits, Bytes and Politics
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Bits, Bytes and Politics. Ramblings from a Software Engineer. A quick rundown of the hardware I am using day to day. Samsung 950 NVMe 512GB SSD. Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop. 2x Dell U2515H 25″ IPS Screens (2560×1440). Windows 10 Pro (Release Preview). HP N54L Micro server with 4×1.5TB HDD’s and Ubuntu. Surface 3 – 4GB / 128GB – Windows 10. Linode 2Gb – Debian ( Referral Link. All views expressed on this blog are my own, not of past, current, or future employers. Its been a long year.
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The Home Server Part 2: Ubuntu & ZFS | Bits, Bytes and Politics
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Bits, Bytes and Politics. Ramblings from a Software Engineer. The Home Server Part 2: Ubuntu & ZFS. February 23, 2014. So I have my HP Micro Server. It has a modded BIOS. I have installed a spare SSD that I had into the OOD slot. Next step is Ubuntu. Unfortunately I found the Ubuntu Server 13.10 doesn’t like to work with either of my USB keyboards which makes installing it impossible. So I got a Ubuntu 13.04 ISO and installed it via USB stick to the SSD, then upgraded to 13.10. Ls -l /dev/disk/by id.
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Random Notes | Bits, Bytes and Politics
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Bits, Bytes and Politics. Ramblings from a Software Engineer. Category Archives: Random Notes. New PC – Great things come in small packages. June 12, 2016. My current PC is based around a Antec P183 case which is hench to say the least, and this meant when I switched to a standing desk, I had this placed on a secondary desk next to my main desk. My last build (Intel i7 3770, 16GB Ram, NVidia GTX 660) also used a fair whack in the power department (avg. 250W). Support for up to 32GB of RAM and DDR4. As yo...
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Bits, Bytes and Politics | Ramblings from a Software Engineer | Page 2
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Bits, Bytes and Politics. Ramblings from a Software Engineer. The Home Server Part 2: Ubuntu & ZFS. February 23, 2014. So I have my HP Micro Server. It has a modded BIOS. I have installed a spare SSD that I had into the OOD slot. Next step is Ubuntu. Unfortunately I found the Ubuntu Server 13.10 doesn’t like to work with either of my USB keyboards which makes installing it impossible. So I got a Ubuntu 13.04 ISO and installed it via USB stick to the SSD, then upgraded to 13.10. Ls -l /dev/disk/by id.
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The Home Server Part 3: ZFS Recovery | Bits, Bytes and Politics
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Bits, Bytes and Politics. Ramblings from a Software Engineer. The Home Server Part 3: ZFS Recovery. February 23, 2014. To illustrate zfs recovery, and to check it works. I am going to:. Create a number of files, of various sizes. Produce a strong hash of those files sha512. Put in a different disk, but of the same size. Repair the pool with the new disk – somehow. Validate that the files I created, match the recovered files by checking their hashes. The latter is probably the most important part. Status:...
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Linode API C# | Bits, Bytes and Politics
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Bits, Bytes and Politics. Ramblings from a Software Engineer. Linode is “THE” best Linux VPS provider i have ever used. I am currently working on a set of C#/Mono tools to manage my server part of this requires me to interact with their Linode API. The current version is very basic, and I plan to improve it by adding Exception Handling, and a much improved LinodeResponse class. I have hosted it on github here. My Implementation is based fairly heavily on Theodore Nguyen-Cao. Its been a long year.
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The Home Server Part 1: Modding the BIOS | Bits, Bytes and Politics
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Bits, Bytes and Politics. Ramblings from a Software Engineer. The Home Server Part 1: Modding the BIOS. February 17, 2014. So I got my HP N54L Micro server today, and it is quite simply brilliant, the only flaw with it seems to be a slightly noisy PSU fan, but this will be fine once its in my TV Cabinet. So the first order of business was to install the modded BIOS to fully enable the extra SATA ports. I would recommend having a look around the BIOS with that tool, its really quite interesting. The Home ...
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Timetable Converter | Bits, Bytes and Politics
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Bits, Bytes and Politics. Ramblings from a Software Engineer. Timetable Converter is a Python Script to turn a CSV into a iCal file. The Main intention for this script is for Computer Science Students at the University of york to beable to generate a iCal from a simple CSV. This solution isnt perfect as you still need to generate the CSV to begin with, but its a start. Tested on IronPython 2.0.2 and Python 2.6. The code is fairly simple, and you can download the whole package, including sample CSV here.
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Lloyd Sparkes | Bits, Bytes and Politics
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Bits, Bytes and Politics. Ramblings from a Software Engineer. Author Archives: Lloyd Sparkes. New PC – Great things come in small packages. June 12, 2016. My current PC is based around a Antec P183 case which is hench to say the least, and this meant when I switched to a standing desk, I had this placed on a secondary desk next to my main desk. My last build (Intel i7 3770, 16GB Ram, NVidia GTX 660) also used a fair whack in the power department (avg. 250W). Support for up to 32GB of RAM and DDR4. As you...
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Thoughts on the Surface Pro 3 | Bits, Bytes and Politics
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Bits, Bytes and Politics. Ramblings from a Software Engineer. Thoughts on the Surface Pro 3. May 20, 2014. The Surface Pro 3. Wow, just wow. It looks like an amazing device and one which could finally fulfil Microsoft’s aims and goals with its Surface line. That is to provide productive tablets, which truly can replace the need for a laptop. It also looks like the best device on the market which could fulfil my needs. It will be ARM. This means no badly written x86 applications running in the backgro...
