Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat » Terabyte home

I worked primarily from home for over a decade, and though I now have an office with a few employees, many of the challenges remain the same. Key among these is power, or lack thereof, and the ha...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2023/02/28/taming-power-outages-in-the-home-and-small-office/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taming-power-outages-in-the-home-and-small-office

If you're a real hacker, you're interested in all sorts of tech, from computers and the internet to radio to airplanes. The intersection of all of these interests is ADS-B, the protocol used by a...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2023/02/16/monitor-air-traffic-with-a-software-defined-radio-and-a-raspberry-pi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=monitor-air-traffic-with-a-software-defined-radio-and-a-raspberry-pi

ZeroTier is an incredibly useful tool to enable true access from anywhere to any networked resource. Although TrueNAS has removed ZeroTier support, the FreeBSD package is easy to install and seem...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2022/02/03/how-to-install-zerotier-on-truenas-12/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-install-zerotier-on-truenas-12

If you're like me, you have a lot of different systems running in different places: at work, at home, in the lab, and in the cloud. And if you're like me you've often struggled to connect and acc...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2022/01/14/how-to-connect-everything-from-everywhere-with-zerotier/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-connect-everything-from-everywhere-with-zerotier

My cloud of Intel NUC servers are powered by a generic slim 12 volt power supply from Chinese company Mean Well. This is a popular power supply with hobbyists and is widely available worldwide. I...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2020/10/18/powering-rabbits-the-mean-well-lrs-350-12-power-supply/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=powering-rabbits-the-mean-well-lrs-350-12-power-supply

I'm quite pleased with the Intel NUC boards that came with my surplus Rabbit cloud, but I can't say the same about the Nvidia Jetson TK1 boards. They're weird, flaky, limited, and haven't proved ...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2020/09/22/tortoise-or-hare-nvidia-jetson-tk1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tortoise-or-hare-nvidia-jetson-tk1

As I suspected, the Intel NUCs included in my "Rabbit" cloud hardware are proving much more useful than the Nvidia Jetson TK1s. I received both "Silvermont" NUC5 and "Goldmont" NUC6 machines in m...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2020/09/21/running-rabbits-more-about-my-cloud-nucs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=running-rabbits-more-about-my-cloud-nucs

We live in a world of cattle, not pets, and Kubernetes rules the roost. I've been meaning to spend some time getting up to speed on the latest but didn't have enough hardware to make that happen ...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2020/09/10/introducing-rabbit-i-bought-a-cloud/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introducing-rabbit-i-bought-a-cloud

I have an HPE ML110 Gen10 server. It's an excellent piece of hardware but does not "like" the LSI SAS card I want to use for FreeNAS. Every time it boots, I get a "red screen of death" because th...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2020/08/23/remove-rom-to-use-lsi-sas-cards-in-hpe-servers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=remove-rom-to-use-lsi-sas-cards-in-hpe-servers

Most people know of Speedtest, the online performance testing website, but most nerds reach for iPerf instead. It's a self-hosted, full-featured, open-source network performance testing applicati...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2020/07/09/test-your-wi-fi-with-iperf-for-ios/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=test-your-wi-fi-with-iperf-for-ios