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My home lab has been a 40+ year on going project. Under Construction is the best way to explain it. I ugraded it to 2.5G network. This improved by Veeam backup and recovery performance. I expanded my children’s Minecraft server setup to three servers: Bedrock (2 instances), Java (six instances) and a multi-core Folia server. The new HP Z840 workstation is hosting my Ubuntu VMs. My Fortinet 61F is going to be upgraded and will soon have AT&T IPv6 on the Gigabit Fiber.
Husband to an amazing wife and two adorable children.
Firstly, The website covers the beginning (1982-1990s) of my journey from gaming rigs I built, Secondly, my home lab growing to what is it today, Thirdly, tech sites I visit, books and movies I recommend and educational sites I use. Finally, the website teaches and helps you build your own home lab from Hyper-V, Dropbox and Veeam for backing up, How to build your own web server on VMWare 6 and Hyper-V. create mulitple Minecraft Servers of all flavors: Java, Bedrock, Noeforge, and Folia. My Fortinet firewall setup and notes to protect your home and business from threats. STEM was created for my Arduino, Electrical Engineering and Raspberry Pi projects. The most important part of my home lab is my Veeam Backup and Replication server. I backup to disk and then to SAS tape drives.
Most important items for a home lab or data center
Firewall: I use Fortinet and Ubuntu UFW
Backup solution: I use Veeam Backup and Replication
Antivirus: I use Avast One
They call me SCSIraidGURU because I build this monster of a workstation.
My first major Java app
My first Java project is a math program for our 8 and 10 year old children. I can print out math sheets for MDAS: Multiplication, Division, Adding, and Subtracting.
Math Pages was programmed for our children. It does Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division pages for them. On 10.15.25, I finished another module for carry over problems for our daughter who is in 4th grade. 1,000,000 to 9,999,999. Both addition and subtraction. 10 to a page. Sample below.
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I believe it is better to know than be ignorant. I believe it is better to tell the truth than lie. I believe it is better to be free than be a slave.