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HomeLab

4/5/2025

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.

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.

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

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