Author Archives: Freejack

Recruiters Are Used Car Salesmen

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Freejack

For the past couple of years I’ve had my resume out and have occasionally interviewed. The interviews are actually particularly helpful as it gives me a view into what companies are looking for so I can focus on what skills … Continue reading →

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Award Winning Guacamole

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Freejack

3 Haas avocados, halved, seeded and peeled 1 lime, juiced 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon cayenne 1/2 medium onion, diced 1/2 jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced 2 Roma tomatoes, seeded and diced 1 tablespoon chopped … Continue reading →

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Taco Soup

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Freejack

Recently I wanted to find something I could create with hamburger that wasn’t hamburgers or spaghetti. After some hunting on line, I found Taco Soup to sound pretty tasty actually. A couple of sessions later and I had what I … Continue reading →

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Current Home Servers

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Freejack

This has come up several times and I can’t always remember all the servers I have set up for one reason or another. Many times it’s just because the subject I’m on has me listing the relevant servers plus a … Continue reading →

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Managing Dell Fan Speeds

Posted on April 28, 2019 by Freejack

Since the Dell Servers are in a rack behind me, I wanted to better manage the fan speeds. Dell has an Error temperature, a Warning temperature, and the Ambient temperature. Basically where Dell tries to keep the server temperature. Errors … Continue reading →

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Adding Projects To Jenkins

Posted on March 16, 2019 by Freejack

A majority of my projects are simple websites or scripts. Nothing too complicated. My binary files are located on my development server. Jenkins combines the git repo and binary files into a single distribution which is then sync’d up to … Continue reading →

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Kubernetes WorkerNode Sizing

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Freejack

Overview For the current Kubernetes clusters, I reviewed several industry best practices and went with a Worker Node resource configuration of 4 CPUs and 16 Gigabytes of RAM per worker node. In addition, I have a spreadsheet that describes all … Continue reading →

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Guitar Dreams

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Freejack

Probably a common dream for guitarists 🙂 We’re loading out to go to a gig. I ask someone to grab my stuff and we head over. Small hole in the wall place, narrow and a little dark, large window at … Continue reading →

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State Of The Game Room – 2018

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Freejack

During the past year, because of my band taking off, the game room was moved from the central room to the music room and the music room moved to the central room. There’s a lot more room for the guys … Continue reading →

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Differences between Shadowrun 4th/20th Anniversary Edition and Shadowrun 5th Edition

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Freejack

Just documenting the differences between the two since I ran 4th for quite a few years and am starting in on 5th. I’ll likely expand things as I further gather information but at least the initial parts will be bullet … Continue reading →

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