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Wow this is a little complicated but getting Digital Ocean to work is a little complicated, but here are some tips: Ssh into Digital Ocean Droplet When you into the thing, you are using the root password, so you need to look at your droplet IP. Unlike things like bluehost…

Ok last post on the file server topic. Vlad pointed out that there are two storage layers here. That is near line SAS plus a PC3500 when it’s available for high speed ssd. So with 20 slots in a Norco 4220 you could easily add a caching Sata ssd layer…

Well, I’ve been much more focused this year on using portals and getting cash back rewards. I would say about 30% of the times I’ve tried this, the rebate doesn’t work. And folks are smart, it isn’t worth it to make a transaction for $1 work right and there is…

Wow you can see why Tesla is so valuable. I had no idea. The i3 is actually doing pretty well  which was surprising: The Focus Electric has been an absolute sales dud for Ford, although not nearly as bad as the Cadillac ELR. Through September of 2014, Ford only managed to sell…

It’s interesting to think about how to do this. Linux is so amazing because this support is: Included the Linux 2.4 kernel as part of USB Gadget Driver Android includes the drivers so that any Android build can use USB-on-the-Go PLX 3380 is a registered compatible 2280 (the USB 2.0…

Well done with big file servers for now, what about really small systems with great graphics. The new Haswell-E has allowed building really small units: Gigabyte BRIX Pro is a good example. For $600, you get a 8-core Core i7 with its embedded graphics. Sure it’s loud but kind of amazing…

This will get incorporated into the new Haswell file server post but it’s big a bulky on the topic of DDR4 and LRDIMM: DDR4 DDR3 has been around forever and the stock ones are typically 1600MHz but range from 800 to 2200MTs, but DDR4 starts at 2100MTs eventually up to…

It seems like it never ends. Here’s a new problem with SSL using SSL v3 encryption. You have to make sure to disable it in your browser or check the site to make sure it doesn’t accept it. Firefox has an add-on that turns SSL v3 off. Chrome has a…