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I have always granted myself the freedom to exercise artistic license and pursue whatever brings me joy. Currently, digital AI artwork fulfills that purpose, at least for the time being.
by Generative AI
"Security Team Azure 4 reporting in, nothing out of the ordinary. Must have been a loose cable. Wait a sec, what was that . . . "
*BA-BANG BA-BANG BA-BANG* *static*
- Agent Calysee Atheria Rose, last known transmission.
A commission replica of Sermon Audio's Vault--their new set of servers where upwards of 2 million sermons are stored.
This was real fun to build, very different from anything I've done before, and hands down my largest commission yet. Got a working red light in there and loads of crazy SNOT work behind the scenes! It's on display now at the BJU library so if you're in Greenville, stop by and check it out!
Plus, custom kits of one of these racks may be coming soon(TM) if I can figure out how to simplify the building process well enough...
More pics on my Insta and my blog.
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Here at Opscode Austin, we've got a bit of a private cloud in the works. These are my test machines for deploying OpenStack and other applications with Chef.
We've been talking, and Honey Lemon & Space Cadet SL have decided to start a Discord server to make our brands more accessible to everyone!
Be one of the first to join: discord.gg/CNbEgmx2ZX
Server detail for the TBB Server Downtime Contest. I had this lying around for months without knowing what to use them for. I still don't, but at least I got to use them for the contest :)
This Red-tailed Hawk looked as though he was "serving" the duck in lower right corner, instead of dining on it. Taken 1/14/10. Went back to the hard drive for this one.
A tour of the mcli server "farm", more of an agglomeration.
Starting from the left, we have "Jade", a 1.33GhZ Apple Xserver that runs CogDogBlog (weblog plus a few more), the Feed2JS site as well as virtual hosting Maricopa eP, an electronic portolio system. The Xserve also does some QuickTime streaming, such as our examples of Digital Stories created by faculty in a summer workshop.
Below the table, the left tower is Azurite, a Mac OSX server (1 GHz) that mainly hosts project files and FileMaker databases used my our office staff. It runs as a web server just a copy of our Writing HTML tutorial as well as a smaller amount of QuickTime streaming.
The tower on the right is a 664 MhZ Pentium 2, also know as "Realgar" where I test a few new applications, run an evaluation license of Helix (Real Media server), and some things like a copy of my Kiwi Wiki.
To the right of this is a 20 minute APS battery backup. Just in case your power goes out... for less than 20 minutes. All the servers are set to reboot if their power goes out.
What is really cool is a new Belkin OmniViewKVM switch (left of the monitor), a 4 way switchbox so you can use one Keyboard, Video, and Mouse to switch between 4 computers-- the nice feature here is the ability to connect to either USB (Mac) or PS/2 (the old PC) connections.
Finally, on the shelf above are 4 FireWire hard drives, used for backups of the two Mac servers with Retrospect. Each server rotates backups between two external drives.
The PC server backs up over the ntetwork to another server upstairs, which then does its own backups on a dedicated tape drive.
My old server machine started locking up frequently, and I couldn't isolate the cause. (I think I narrowed it down to the motherboard or CPU itself.) Rather than spend a small fortune swapping out components, I decided a "new" PC was in order.
I found this refurbished Dell Optiplex 7050 online for about $200. It came with 32GB RAM and a new 500GB NVMe drive. There's room in the SFF case for a single 3.5" hard drive, so I installed one of my old 2TB drives. I'll probably buy a larger SATA drive on sale during Black Friday, as SMART reports that it's been running for 9+ years (that's actual total UP time - not merely its age)!
Anyway, I've installed Linux Mint 21.2. This morning I got file and print sharing configured for everyone on our home network again. It's also running Folding@Home, but on the lowest setting. These SFF cases are nice, but cooling is an issue. I'm definitely pushing it on the CPU temp, but staying well below critical.
Of course, I have all my figurines set up around it. I own my geekiness. :)
In Europe and Asia you will see servers hustling patrons into patio spaces. Rarely would you see this in Canada but with COVID-19 restrictions, outdoor patios are the only way businesses can operate dine-in service. This practice of hustling customers to tables has now emerged in Vancouver!
We IceCube Winter-Overs here at South Pole have to administrate all the 200+ servers in the IceCube Lab (ICL) building. When the lights are off the server room looks almost like Christmas does ;)
I made this picture for the Inria contest on "Computing: past, present, and future". The abacus is, to me, the birth of computing.
I borrowed a camera with a very fast lens, and went to the server room of our research center, where I played finding a spot for the abacus in the middle of the computing equipment. A large numerical aperture gave me a short depth of field, turning the lights in a nice bokeh.
I did fairly little post-processing, using darktable as always. I used a local contrast filter on the abacus itself, and pushed the colors in the top right of the photo toward green.
"Mirror’s Edge Catalyst"
-4000x5333 (SRWE Hotsampling)
-Hattiwatti's Cinematic Tools (free camera, timestop, FOV, HUD toggle)