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HomeLab

4/5/2025

 
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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
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Hiking New England 4000

8/24/2024

 
 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
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Rapid7 Article

8/24/2024

 

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. 

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https://www.rapid7.com/customers/norwich-university/?

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