Say no to commercialized xmas

Generator fail

Learned two lessons this morning: 1. A normal car floor jack is utterly useless for an SUV or pickup. 2. Off brand generators from big box stores are all of the cheap’o pieces of crap that you would imagine.

Is there life out there?

In only a few years with rudimentary capability to search for and identify “earth-like” planets, we find one that’s VERY similar. Given a few more centuries, how many will we find; and what are the odds that they will all be desolate of life. Time and space are so vast that claiming we’re the only […]

Docker replaces VMs

Moved from KVM/QEMM to Docker for all of my various needs server needs, i.e. plex, LAMP, etc. I have beefy server hardware; nonetheless, the overall performance improvement of containers vs. virtualization is astounding. Moreover the community support for Docker is such that the move was painless. There’s still a use case for vitalization; for example, […]