ADRIAN’S BLOG
Ramblings of an IT geek
FreeNAS0 – Parts
They've started to arrive! Unfortunately, the motherboard that everything connects to isn't going to arrive until around the 13 December, so I'll just have a pile of parts in the corner of my office until it does! In the meantime, here are some pictures 🙂 1 x Intel...
FreeNAS0 – Ordered
Well that all happened quickly! Some spare time while my partner and daughter were out today, and everything I need for FreeNAS0 is ordered! CaseFractal Define R5 + FD-FAN-SSR2-140MotherboardSupermicro X11SSL-CFCPUIntel Xeon E3-1230 v6Â Memory4 x Crucial 16GB DDR4-2666...
FreeNAS0
My new FreeNAS0 build started today, or at least the first few components were ordered online! I've been planning this for some months, so quite an exciting first step which I hope to complete before the end of the year! I've currently got 2 machines running FreeNAS...
rEFInd Again
This is the continuing story of my elementary OS 5 Juno installation, and fixing rEFInd again. And this, is a really good blog that explains doing all this stuff much better than mine 🙂 https://aroman.github.io/elementary-on-a-mac/ That does a great job of...
elementary OS 5 Juno
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away... Well, maybe not quite that dramatic, but back in 2016 when I started this blog it was talking about installing Linux on an old MacBook Air. That turned out to be elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki, but earlier this year a new version...
Mattermost (aka APE Slack)
Until a few weeks ago, I'd never even heard of Mattermost, although I've enjoyed using Slack for a few work and personal projects. In less than a couple of hours, I now have my own Slack-like server, running Mattermost! Docker continues to impress me, as it's such a...
Nighthawk AX8 8-Stream WiFi6 Router (RAX80)
This really isn't the blog I was expecting to be writing when I ordered this WiFi6 router online, but I'm quite pleased with the way things have turned out as I've solved my DHCP problem in the previous blog pretty cheaply! I'd assumed the DHCP problem was being...
AirPort and FreeNAS Issues
Or should that be FreeNAS and AirPort issues? Given my UPS died less than a couple of weeks ago (I blogged about the new one here), the saying 'bad things come in threes' seems pretty relevant for me at the minute! Saturday It started on Saturday evening, which at...
AirPods Pro
You can probably tell from the flurry of blogs, that I'm catching up on a few things I drafted over the last few weeks! The Apple AirPod Pro was my lastest purchase, which I picked up from the Apple store last Thursday (31 October), the day after they were launched! I...
CyberPower UPS
My old APC Back-UPS ES - BE700G-UK decided to give up the ghost last weekend, started beeping and switched everything off! I bought it in 2011, so it's not done too badly, costing me about £10 a year! It was probably a little underpowered for the equipment I had...
Smart (Ikea) Home
It's funny, as in the last few months I've just got rid of the last of our Ikea furniture - a large king-size bed with matching bedside tables and a chest of draws in the spare bedroom. It started life as our bed in 2005 but was relegated to spare room duty in about...
Episode IX
Tickets for a triple bill on Wednesday 18 December booked today at the Renfrew Street Cineworld, Glasgow on their Superscreen! Not sure I'll be going for all 3, but will be there for Episode IX 😀 Update I thought I'd just add a little to this blog, rather than write...
Fast and Furious 9
I certainly didn't expect to be watching scenes from the next Fast and Furious (9) film when I went into work at the Edinburgh office last week! to be honest, I can't say I'm a fan of that film franchise, and whilst I may have seen a couple of the earlier ones, I...
Edinburgh Festival 2019
Only two planned trips into the Edinburgh Festival this year, and both with my 6-year-old daughter. I have been working in the centre of Edinburgh this year though so got to soak up some of the Fringe atmosphere a little more often. I'd planned the first on my iPhone...
MJX Bugs 4W (Brushless GPS RC Drone Camera 2K 5G Wifi FPV Optical B4W Quadcopter)
What a name, although I guess it does cover all of the bases - a MJX Bugs 4W brushless (motor) with GPS (Global Positioning System) RC (Remote Controlled) with 2K (or just over 1080p) camera and 5G (802.11ac) WiFi for FPV (First Person View) and Optical Flow (and...
Remote Controlled Drone
I've always loved playing around with remote controlled things, and have a number of them around the house. I've been thinking about getting one of the cheaper GPS drones for a little while now and was finally seduced at the beginning of the month. I've had my remote...
New iPad
I talked about some of my older tech in this blog, but it's been some time since I bought a new iPad. I bought an iPad 2 back in 2011 and didn't really use it much, and then an iPad Mini 2 in 2014, and while I used that a little more I still didn't really get...
Geneva Motor Show
One of my good friends is a bit of a car geek so I went along with him for a day at the Geneva Motor Show back in March, having never been to a motor show before... I was going to spend a bit of time writing about some of the cars we saw, but I've left it too long and...
Old iPhone
This is one of those blogs I started about 2 months ago, and only got around to finishing off today! I've been running my own company since 2003 and had a pretty standard approach to replacing the ICT equipment I use or at least did until recently when I was still...
WordPress 5.2 and PHP 7.3
A short blog with a quick update to this one about PHP, this time with a little WordPress 5.2! I'd updated my WordPress jail to PHP 7.2 not too long ago, but the recent WordPress 5.2 update introduced the Site Health Check, and this reported that my PHP version was...
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