• Recently, I have been doing more in the HomeLab. The history of the Lab to this point was initially an upgrade from a Nighthawk router to a Dream Machine. I have no complaints, and while it is super overkill for my needs, it is very nice to have a network system that simply just works. 
    In addition to the network gear, I have a Synology DiskStation DS916+ as a NAS. Then, to the left of the NAS are two mini PCs I have picked up over the years. The Lenovo box is running Proxmox with some containers I have been messing around. Then, to the left of that is a Dell box that, up until now, has been my dedicated Plex box. 
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    The Lenovo box is the newest addition. A Lenovo M720Q that I picked up on eBay with an 8th Gen i5 and had 8 GB of RAM. Then for the low price of 94 bucks on Amazon, the Lenovo machine was 32 GB of 2400MHz RAM and 1 TB of NVME storage richer.  This combined with a 256Gb SATA SSD I had kicking around and now I have quite the useful virtualization box. These Lenovo boxes along with similar product from HP and Dell are hitting eBay in mass due to them getting phased out of industry and getting phased into homelabs everywhere. 
    Coming next is getting Plex working on Proxmox and wiping the Dell machine, installing Proxmox on it and clustering the two.
    Side Note:  Proxmox installation and setup is worlds easier with these helper scripts over on GitHub highly recommend it. 
    https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts
  •  With 67 peaks scattered across the region, the challenge is tackling them most efficiently. While I haven't completed one in a while, below is the complete list with the ones I have and haven't completed:
    Mountain Elevation in feet State Completed
    Washington 6288 NH X
    Adams 5774 NH
    Jefferson 5712 NH
    Monroe 5384 NH X
    Madison 5367 NH
    Katahdin: Baxter Peak 5268 ME
    Lafayette 5260 NH
    Lincoln 5089 NH
    South Twin 4902 NH
    Carter Dome 4832 NH
    Moosilauke 4802 NH
    Eisenhower 4780 NH X
    North Twin 4761 NH
    Katahdin: Hamlin Peak 4756 ME
    Carrigain 4700 NH X
    Bond 4698 NH
    Middle Carter 4610 NH
    West Bond 4540 NH
    Garfield 4500 NH
    Liberty 4459 NH
    South Carter 4430 NH
    Wildcat: A Peak 4422 NH
    Hancock 4420 NH X
    Mount Mansfield 4393 VT
    South Kinsman 4358 NH
    Field 4340 NH X
    Osceola 4340 NH
    Flume 4328 NH
    South Hancock 4319 NH X
    Pierce 4310 NH X
    North Kinsman 4293 NH
    Willey 4285 NH X
    Bondcliff 4265 NH
    Zealand 4260 NH
    Sugarloaf 4250 ME X
    Killington Peak 4235 VT
    Crocker Mountain 4228 ME
    North Tripyramid 4180 NH
    Old Speck 4170 ME X
    Cabot 4170 NH
    East Osceola 4156 NH
    North Brother 4151 ME
    Bigelow: West Peak 4145 ME X
    Middle Tripyramid 4140 NH
    Saddleback Mountain 4120 ME X
    Cannon 4100 NH
    Bigelow: Avery Peak 4090 ME X
    Camel's Hump 4083 VT X
    Mount Ellen 4083 VT
    Hale 4054 NH X
    Jackson 4052 NH X
    Tom 4051 NH X
    Mount Abraham 4050 ME
    South Crocker Mountain 4050 ME X
    Wildcat: D Peak 4050 NH
    Moriah 4049 NH
    Passaconaway 4043 NH
    Owl's Head 4025 NH
    Galehead 4024 NH
    Saddleback Horn 4023 ME
    Whiteface 4020 NH X
    Mount Redington 4010 ME
    Spaulding Mountain 4010 ME
    Waumbek 4006 NH
    Mount Abraham 4006 VT X
    Isolation 4004 NH X
    Tecumseh 4003 NH X

  • Changing to Rapid7 was an incredible move that has reduced costs and enhanced the university's capabilities.  When Rapid7 reached out and asked if we would like to have a customer story written, we were happy to jump at the chance. The article linked below explains much more depth and definitely worth the read.