Category: Me
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T320
Nope, this is not a new Terminator model … this is about the Dell Poweredge T320 system (yes, an older server model) The official page with more details: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/poweredge-t320/overview Now, why am posting this? I found myself needing some hardware for my home lab however this time I needed something that would run in the…
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MSc Year 2
It is official, I’m a year 2 MSc student (part-time) :). Last year I decided to resume my studies and go for MSc Advanced Data Science and Computer Science at UoR (University of Reading) thinking it would be a nice addition to my skills (machine learning / data science were not on my radar until…
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London Anime & Gaming Con 2022
So much fun! This year me and the mrs thought about doing something different … why not go to an anime convention given that me and my daughter like anime quite a lot. What I can say is that it was a pretty cool experience … it had everything from ppl dressing up as their…
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Solar powered – ver 0.3/0.4 alpha
v0.3 Made a few more changes to my solar rig – after discovering a few issues with the original design and figuring out a solution for them – and in the process I learned about diodes, Ferrite cores, EMI filters, circuit breakers and fuses. It all started after watching this video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT3rr4c9_u4 Battery…
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Becoming OCI Certified Architect Pro
In Oct 2021 I joined Oracle’s Ethical Hacking Team (EHT) and in doing so I found out what I’m going to be involved in and what’s expected of me 🙂 – don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining, I’m simply stating some facts – and to tell you the truth the stuff I’m being involved…
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Student v2.0
Welcome Week @ UoR started on Monday (20/09/2021) and I’m excited to say that I already like the campus and the people behind the various activities that are happening there atm. On Monday I managed to sort my student card and got to visit a few of the campus buildings not to mention attended a…
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End of a journey, beginning of a new one
In 2017 my life changed with me moving to the UK and joining the team at Paragon Internet Group Ltd (tsoHost brand owned by GoDaddy), now, in 2021, it’s time for another major change in my life … this time career wise … with me leaving the infra team at TSO (ops) and joining the…
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Holiday session – August 2021
Nottingham(castle), Kendal (Lake District), Manchester (stadium), Leeds (Luke), Oxford (Blenheim Palace)
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Anniversary – 2021
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Home lab – Cobbler – OS provisioning on Bare metal and VMs
If not familiar with what Cobbler is and/or does then go here: https://cobbler.github.io/ As a sysadmin I always enjoyed setting up complex infrastructures or testing various cool features that some new piece of software has or simply test if my stuff would work on a newer version of Linux (whatever flavor of Linux that may…