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I was listening to this week's All In podcast, and there were some armchair quarterback ideals and posturing being thrown around. Free market this, price control that, permit regulations here, rebuilding speed there. A lot of stuff to unwind from people who have never gone through any kind of rebuild after a natural disaster. Without casting aspersion or hot takes, here's what I remember about my…
We recently replaced half of our windows and doors with new units from Marvin. We optioned most of these with Marvin's Lock Status Sensor system to conceal and hide our alarm system's hardware. Previously, we had the typical window and door sensors on the outside frames. If you opened the door or window, the magnet would move far enough away from the reed sensor, letting the alarm system know of…
If you've run Ceph clusters for a long time, you probably either finished or are going through a Filestore to Bluestore conversion. For big clusters with lots of objects, it's a very long process. One of our oldest clusters has been converting for over a year, and it still isn't finished yet. It's a complicated function of object size, number of objects, EC settings, storage speed, etc.A few…
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I've been pretty busy with work, so I've been lagging here on updates. Thankfully, I've been keeping up with my tank maintenance and things are overall going well. Since the last update there have been a few changes:I lost another panda cory. Same symptoms as the others. One day fine, the next day sideways/weird swimming, the following day dead. I got this one into my hospital tank and dosed with…
If you're still here and reading, thanks! This is one of my outlets during the pandemic, much like the tank. For those who didn't read the first few posts, this is my first attempt at a planted tank. I'm not going to call it an aquascape, though I may use the term aquascaping for keeping the plants alive through maintenance. I'm not creating a replica of nature in a glass cube. I'm creating a fish…