an i7 - I found some RAM to put into it, put a 256GB SSD in the drive
slot and a 750GB SATA drive in the ultra-bay. It'll make a
decent-enough part-time home lab for the time being. With an i7 it'll
run docker or a VM, won't take a ton of electricity, and it won't take
up a lot of room in my storage space/server room.
I hadn't heard the term "home lab" until some people mentioned it on Dove-Net recently.. I looked it up to see exactly what it meant, and it
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All <=-
I cleaned out several boxes of old computer crap, and e-wasted a
ton of old stuff I wouldn't need any more -- ATA laptop hard
drives, old 802.11g routers (I kept one V2 WRT54G for old times'
sake...) and a bunch of old yellowed keyboards.
I had a couple of mostly dead single-core laptops that went too,
as much as I liked them, they're too slow to keep up nowadays.
What I did find that I had forgotten about was an older Thinkpad
with an i7 - I found some RAM to put into it, put a 256GB SSD in
the drive slot and a 750GB SATA drive in the ultra-bay. It'll
make a decent-enough part-time home lab for the time being. With
an i7 it'll run docker or a VM, won't take a ton of electricity,
and it won't take up a lot of room in my storage space/server
room.
Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I hadn't heard the term "home lab" until some people mentioned it
on Dove-Net recently.. I looked it up to see exactly what it
meant, and it sounds like just playing with computer
hardware/software at home to learn things? I've done that before
but never thought to call it a "home lab".
I hadn't heard the term "home lab" until some people mentioned it on Dove-Net recently.. I looked it up to see exactly what it meant, and it sounds like just playing with computer hardware/software at home to learn things? I've done that before but never thought to call it a "home lab".
On 03-20-19 16:00, Dmxrob wrote to Nightfox <=-
Nowadays, even commercial-grade IT equipment is cheap enough, and bandwidth to the home is so plentiful, that many people are getting
into the whole homelab thing. It can be a very fun hobby, plus you
learn a lot!
Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I hadn't heard the term "home lab" until some people mentioned it
on Dove-Net recently.. I looked it up to see exactly what it
meant, and it sounds like just playing with computer
hardware/software at home to learn things? I've done that before
but never thought to call it a "home lab".
Haha, same here! Apparently I've been Homelabbing for approx 25
years now and never knew it! :)
... Windows 3.1 - From the people who brought you EDLIN.
Re: Home Lab
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Mar 20 2019 12:48:37
I hadn't heard the term "home lab" until some people mentioned it on Dove-Net recently.. I looked it up to see exactly what it meant, and it sounds like just playing with computer hardware/software at home to lea things? I've done that before but never thought to call it a "home lab"
Seems like a lot of hobby things have names now where they didn't before, or have at least been rebranded. A side-effect of online communities arising, fostering rapid discussion, and forging identities for themselves, I think. "Makers" would be another example; they've always existed even if the name i new and some new tools have arrived on the scene.
Nowadays, even commercial-grade IT equipment is cheap enough, and bandwidth to the home is so plentiful, that many people are getting into the whole homelab thing. It can be a very fun hobby, plus you learn a lot!
Sounds like the networking and server equivalent of ham radio. :)
Dan Clough wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I had a couple of mostly dead single-core laptops that went too,
as much as I liked them, they're too slow to keep up nowadays.
Haha! I have a couple old HP's like that. Built like tanks but
too old to use any more.
Seems like a lot of hobby things have names now where they didn't before, or have at least been rebranded.
Seems like a lot of hobby things have names now where they didn't before, or have at least been rebranded.
Sort of like there were "emoticons" until some millenials though they had invented something new and starting calling them "emojis"? :D
Not exatly. Emoticons are made of multiple normal symbolic character, e.g.: @}---,--- :-) c[] :-O ;-P etc.
... while emojis are single Unicode character code points. You can't spontaneously make up a new Unicode codepoint (emoji glyph) all on your own, but you *can* invent a new emoticon anytime you get the inspiration!
On 03-21-19 11:48, Dmxrob wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Sounds like the networking and server equivalent of ham radio. :)
Exactly! Very good analogy!
On 03-23-19 10:58, Dumas Walker wrote to DIGITAL MAN <=-
That may be the technical difference but to most of your facebookers
and other social media folks, everything you described above is an
emoji, whether you use the symbol characters (that may get translated
into your unicode characters when it posts), or if it is somehting they can only select by clicking on it. :)
On a related point, I find it annoying when social media sites wont or incorrectly convert emoticons into emojis.
Sort of like there were "emoticons" until some millenials though they had invented something new and starting calling them "emojis"? :D
On a related point, I find it annoying when social media sites wont or incorrectly convert emoticons into emojis.
On 03-26-19 10:51, echicken wrote to Vk3jed <=-
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Re: Re: Home Lab
By: Vk3jed to Dumas Walker on Sun Mar 24 2019 09:15:00
On a related point, I find it annoying when social media sites wont or incorrectly convert emoticons into emojis.
I used to make a point of disabling any emoticon-to-emoji feature when possible, even if it only affected my display. Doesn't bother me as
much now, but I used to feel gross for producing a cartoon smiley when
a simple :) would do. :|
On 03-20-19 16:00, Dmxrob wrote to Nightfox <=-
Nowadays, even commercial-grade IT equipment is cheap enough, and bandwidth to the home is so plentiful, that many people are getting into the whole homelab thing. It can be a very fun hobby, plus you learn a lot!
Sounds like the networking and server equivalent of ham radio. :)
... COFFEE.COM not found: (A)bort, (R)eheat, (S)noozeAnd the cool thing is you can use all those old linksys routers for ham projects still (mesh networking and such). :)
On 04-08-19 09:34, Jethro wrote to Vk3jed <=-
And the cool thing is you can use all those old linksys routers for ham projects still (mesh networking and such). :)
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