I’ve had a gmail account since 2007, when I got an invite from someone I met at a university Open day. At the time it was the bee’s knees, dog’s bollocks and cat’s….elbows?It was hard to get into, it had way more storage than anything else, and it was fresh,… Continue reading
Background A couple of years ago I mucked around with something called PCI-E passthrough. The idea is to let a Virtual Machine (VM) use an physical GPU. This lets me, who almost exclusively run Linux, run some Windows only games in a Windows VM. I think I was first exposed… Continue reading
This post was written before FreeNAS Corral got memory-holed. I’ve not decided on my course of action yet. I like running my services in Docker far more than I ever liked JAILS and the LinuxVM, so going backwards is not really an option. I recently upgraded my FreeNAS 9.3… Continue reading
Data. What data do I consider important? I had a backup scare a while ago, thinking I’d lost several years’ worth of photographs. It looks like I did have some level of backup, but not all of them were retrieved. So I suppose Photographs are one thing I feel I… Continue reading
Installing FreeNAS. I’d read on various blogs and how to sites that you should install FreeNAS to a USB stick, and boot from that. This leaves hard drives free to be proper network attached storage, and not have to use a partition on them just for the OS. What I… Continue reading
I’ve been thinking for a long time about solidifying and formalising my backup procedures. To be honest, my existing system is pretty awful, even though it’s caused me problems in the past. Existing Backup solution On my desktop, I have an SSD where my operating system (Xubuntu) lives. This drive… Continue reading
Migrated wordpress + database to new host, testing functionality
A while ago I discovered Steamleft, and decided to use it to try and track my progress in finishing my backlog of Steam games. There are some major flaws with it, such as it counting games I’ve played but not on Steam (eg, Half-life: Blue Shift). It also has really… Continue reading
Somebody sent me to this tool. If your Steam Profile is public, it will show you how long you’d need to play for to “complete” all games in your steam library. My own entry is here. It relies on average game length statistics from www.howlongtobeat.com , which will obviously be a… Continue reading