All Goes Well With One Exception
So far my eldest has all of her games on the gamecache drive. Unfortunately ElderScrolls Online refused to run on the Gamecache drive. It would hang up the network card causing all network connectivity to go away. Only a restart of the machine would fix it. However the fact that all of the other games… Read more
GameCache Project Updates
It is working out better than I anticipated. Right now the eldest has been installing all of her games on the G drive. I found out one of her games is nearly 200 Gigs in size. Holy crap batman. She can easily chew through more than 400 gigs of storage just with the games she… Read more
One Thing i like about zfs
*Game Cache Update* Is the built in compression. For vm’s you can sometimes get 5-10x compression because vms are mostly empty space. ZFS does compression transparently. Right now as part of the eldest’s game cache her system thinks it has written 75 gigabytes of data. ZFS compression has reduced that down to 52.5G in the… Read more
Game Caching update
I made an earlier post about an experiment I am running. So far so good. The eldest is having to put her games onto the new G drive her computer sees. The magic of ISCSI makes it appear as a local hard drive even though it’s on a network server. I am a HUGE fan… Read more
An interesting FreeNAS Experiment
I came across an interesting use case for FreeNAS. My eldest daughter likes games that are huge. Like 100-250 gigabyte huge. I simply cannot afford to keep adding SSD storage to her machine. I will not do hard disks as main storage..under Windows 10 it’s too painfully slow. What Lawerence had done was taken a… Read more
A picture of my Faith
Very few will get this picture. Honestly I have not figured out all of the facets that appeal to me..but I know the base levels. The knight is a dark knight…one who does his battles from behind the scenes….who works in the shadows. The knight has defeated a devil and prays to God in thanks… Read more
The Genius of the Electoral College and the Broader Constitution
The founders could not see every potential thing that came. The Constitution is just as relevant today as it was back when our country was founded. The reason people are calling for the dismemberment of various parts is because they do not want to operate within its constraints. The biggest offender is the Federal government. … Read more
How does God Come For You in Times of Darkness?
it’s been a rough past couple almost three weeks here. The strain is amplified by the fact I have not slept well in weeks. First it was Chloe getting a cold…that’s minor so I took that in stride. I still sleep much more lightly when someone in the house isn’t feeling well..but this was not… Read more