Starlink vs ViaSat: a quick test in the woods!
We’ve had a cabin in Northern Arizona for decades and it’s always been “off the grid” for connectivity. It originally didn’t have running water or electricity, but got both of… Read more »
Author Archives: slb
Raspberry Pi 4B storage performance
In case it wasn’t apparent, I’m into storage. Also, I’ve been interested in how a raspberry pi SBC can handle running a performance hungry distributed storage platform like Ceph. When… Read more »
Ceph Luminous on a Raspberry Pi 3B
I recently decided to poke around and see how difficult it was to install Ceph on a Raspberry Pi. While it has been done a bunch of times before, I… Read more »
Software defined radio with Raspberry Pi (Part2)
In my previous post, I described how I stumbled into RTL-SDR and connecting it to a Raspberry Pi. It wasn’t working well for me due to network lag, hiccups, and sample… Read more »
Software Defined Radio with Raspberry Pi (Part1)
I’d been looking for a reason to use another Raspberry Pi for some time. For years I’ve had an old Oregon Scientific weather station that had 4 really nice 433mhz… Read more »
DIY Off-site encrypted backup with Raspberry Pi
While my day job often involves creating highly available enterprise storage products, I am more interested in building cheap solutions at home that can accomplish things only expensive products did a few years… Read more »
Enterprise Storage – Who buys this stuff, and why?
If you follow just about any tech site that discusses storage, you’d be forgiven for thinking that pretty much everyone in the universe has moved to cloud storage. … Read more »
First Post…
Hello! After 15 years of owning a domain name, I decided to finally put some new content up. For nostalgic purposes, I’ve kept around this time-capsule original 1999 site , which… Read more »