I've done such "what's ahead" pieces before, but it's been a while. Why not kick off this fresh new year by giving TinkerTry fans a glimpse at the sorts of topics they can expect to see coming up soon? Things change constantly in any successful home lab. Surprises, discoveries, and life…
Lucky Lou's & First Church in Old Wethersfield, Connecticut on Oct 20 2016 by Paul Braren. Map created on ZeeMaps.com For a while now, I've been wanting to share a bit about my beloved hometown of Wethersfield. How nice to recently discover that a real author has already done all that legwork…
It's become an annual tradition for me to take a moment to look back once a year, before I charge forward, with 578 articles published so far. These past 365 days were good, as were years 3 and 2, but not so much year 1. Those early days were lean days, with very few readers. Glad I stuck with it…
There's been a lot happening these past few weeks, and there's a lot of articles that'll be arriving soon, starting in June, including: a June 1st anniversary restrospective, TinkerTry's first 4 years why TinkerTry.com went [SSL/HTTPS/HSTS for all content (hint - speed) why TinkerTry.com enabled…
This year saw a lot of growth for TinkerTry IT @ home, with a whole lot of focus on adapting datacenter technologies for the home. Curious what struck a chord with listeners the most this year? Why, it's the articles that help the most people, naturally. This is your annual peek under the hood!…
. I was fortunate enough to be chosen to help with a VMware-related software project in Germany from September 18th to October 18th, 2014. Weekday work at IBM’s European Storage Competence Center (ESCC) in Mainz was challenging and rewarding. On weekends, I was free to roam about the continent, on m…
It's been three years since launch already! Wow, time continued to fly by, fast, like my fingers at the keyboard. Yeah, I did say something like that last year, and the year before that too. But now, I've now published 447 articles total, over these last 156 weeks. The growing list of goodies in the…
It's been two years since launch already, wow, time flies fast, like my fingers at the keyboard. Yeah, said something like that last year too. But I've now created 311 articles total, over these last 104 weeks. That's about 3 articles per week! The new 'Superguides' button helps with deeper dives,…
Screenshot of Internet Archive Wayback Machine "Wired Cornell" home page as it appeared on Oct 20 2009. Wired Cornell: “When Sinofsky started talking about the phenomenon he’d seen at Cornell ... it caught my attention.” Bill Gates Today, just a couple of hours ago, we learned Steven Sinof…
1st year Statistics: It's been a year already, wow, time flies. It would seem my fingers have been flying too, with 58,728 words typed so far. Yep, I guess I've written a book. In addition to the fresh screenshots above, here's some more Google Analytics data, from June 1st 2011 through March 31, 20…
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Paul Braren, MCSE in 1998, VCP #2681 in 2005, vExpert 2014 to 2024, Veeam Vanguard Emeritus, 2015 to 2019.
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After 6 successful years testing then shipping well over 1,000 Xeon D Bundles, Wiredzone had to stop selling them in mid-2021 due to cost, supply, and logistics challenges. So far, Xeon D-1700/2700 (Ice Lake D) was a minor refresh for 2023, with Xeon D-1800/2800 (Granite Rapids D) refresh looking a little better for 2024. More cores, but still just PCIe Gen4 and DDR4. Looking ahead, I'm glad it's Pat Gelsinger at Intel's helm. I'm also grateful to have had the honor of working at VMware when Pat was the CIO there. I'll leave it at that, given the whole Broadcom thing.
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