Nov - 8th
Writing with LLMs
Posted at 8:47 am | Filed Under ai, writing
I listened to a podcast where an author spoke about using agentic AI to make a writing “team”. He had beta reader/critics responding from specific perspectives, another grammar LLM, and an editor LLM – he’d pass drafts back and forth between them like they were people as part of the process. I have a couple […]
Nov - 2nd
Thinkpad homelab upgrades
Posted at 10:35 am | Filed Under journal
You can spend a lot of money building a homelab that competes with small office networks. Or, you can do what I did and build a network of cast-off, unwanted hardware. A thrift-store Synology NAS, “parts-only” Thinkpad laptop with a cracked screen and broken keyboard, and a $5 goodwill router, flashed with OpenWRT forms the […]
Aug - 31st
Living With Proxmox
Posted at 10:29 am | Filed Under homalab
My Proxmox VE 9.0 upgrade went smoothly, I ran the following command from a shell: apt update; apt upgrade;pve8to9 Then, updated my /etc/apt/sources.list to point to “Trixie” repositories, then ran: apt dist-upgrade to run the upgrade process. Admittedly, I’m not running Ceph or Proxmox Backup server, it’s definitely worth checking out the update documentation at […]
Aug - 15th
Proxmox 9.0 released
Posted at 10:32 am | Filed Under journal
Proxmox VE 9.0 is out, and it brings a solid set of updates. Built on Debian 13 “Trixie” with Linux kernel 6.14.8, it improves hardware support and overall performance. Core Updates The virtualization stack includes: QEMU 10.0.2 for better VM performance LXC 6.0.4 for improved container stability ZFS 2.3.3 with RAID-Z expansion Ceph Squid 19.2.3 […]
Aug - 9th
Citizen’s Band
Posted at 6:22 pm | Filed Under android
Jan - 31st
Bookstore Still Life
Posted at 9:18 pm | Filed Under android
Jan - 30th
Thinkpad Homelab Upgrades
Posted at 6:46 am | Filed Under blog
You can spend a lot of money building a homelab that competes with small office networks. Or, you can do what I did and build a network of cast-off, unwanted hardware. A thrift-store Synology NAS, “parts-only” Thinkpad laptop with a cracked screen and broken keyboard, and a $5 goodwill router, flashed with OpenWRT forms the […]
Dec - 23rd
Proxmox Datacenter Manager: Centralized Management for Proxmox VE
Posted at 12:24 am | Filed Under blog
Proxmox Server Solutions announced the first Alpha release of Proxmox Datacenter Manager, an open-source server management software designed to provide a unified overview of all nodes and clusters in Proxmox VE environments. This new tool aims to simplify the management of virtualized environments by offering a modern user interface and centralized control. Key Features of […]
Nov - 24th
RIP tteck, creator of Proxmox Helper Scripts
Posted at 4:31 pm | Filed Under blog
tteck’s Proxmox Helper Scripts are what helped me dig more deeply into Proxmox; they automate upgrades and made it simple to try out homelab apps from a shell scripts. Sorry to hear that he was in failing health, but the time I read the post below, he had already passed away. It looks like there’s […]
Nov - 24th
Proxmox VE 8.3 released
Posted at 4:27 pm | Filed Under blog
Proxmox VE 8.3 has been released, and it was a painless upgrade from version 8.2. The new version includes: Support for Ceph Reef and Ceph Squid Tighter integration of the SDN stack with the firewall New webhook notification target New view type “Tag View” for the resource tree New change detection modes for speeding up […]
Aug - 3rd
New Outlook – not ready for Prime Time?
Posted at 3:17 am | Filed Under blog
I’ve been fighting with and against the “New” Microsoft Outlook, as I’ve written about. My biggest issue revolves around the replacement of Outlook’s Tasks functionality with Microsoft ToDo. I use Tasks heavily, sorting by category and using dates to prioritize daily lists. My email and meeting workflow ties closely to OneNote and Outlook – and […]
Jul - 11th
Walkabout
Posted at 12:02 pm | Filed Under android
“did you see that?”
Jun - 20th
State of the Home Office, 2024
Posted at 9:31 pm | Filed Under blog
I’ve worked out of my home since 2020. My home office has evolved and has become a place where I enjoy working. With a little effort, you can improve any home office environment with some of the tips I’ve discovered.
May - 11th
Homelab Maintenance
Posted at 4:27 pm | Filed Under blog
I work out of my home office full-time. I spend a lot of time here, and so I’m used to the way things look – and sound. I was on a video call this week when something felt off. I took off my headphones and heard it. clunk. clunk. One of the drives in my […]
May - 3rd
Old Iron
Posted at 5:26 pm | Filed Under android, blog
IBM 360 Mainframe at the Computer History Museum.
Apr - 24th
Proxmox VE 8.2 released!
Posted at 8:27 pm | Filed Under blog
With all of the changes at Broadcom affecting smaller customers, it’s great to see Proxmox adding the ability to migrate directly from VMWare. While VMWare is a best-of-breed hypervisor, many customers use a fraction of VMWare features – and tools like Proxmox VE can provide an effective hypervisor with commercial support and a great feature […]
Apr - 15th
25 Years…
Posted at 7:55 am | Filed Under blog
I realized that my blog and this domain (kataan.org) are 25 years old today! I started a project to move the older items from a text archive (downloaded from blogger, remember them?) into my WordPress database. I hadn’t realized that with blogger, I used it like Twitter as a microblog – there are some […]
Feb - 22nd
Another Nikon
Posted at 7:33 pm | Filed Under coolpix5400
I’ve had a string of good luck lately. Shopping at thrift stores can be a hit-or-miss proposition. My latest find is a Coolpix 5400, a logical progression from my Coolpix 995 and 4300. This one has the same lens, a 5 megapixel sensor, swaps the swivel-body design for the body-with-grip design that took Nikon through […]
Feb - 22nd
It’s a mystery…
Posted at 12:55 pm | Filed Under android, digital
Ever go through your camera roll and have no idea what you took a picture of? I know this is somewhere in Las Vegas, but that’s about it.
Feb - 21st
Cirque
Posted at 12:52 pm | Filed Under android, digital
keep looking »
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