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GATE River Run 15k 2019 - Race Report
- Monday, March 11 2019 @ 12:34 AM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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I rode the Florida Track Club bus to Jacksonville on the morning of the race. This required an early wakeup, but it was nice not having to worry about parking. The bus takes us inside the event grounds, very close to the registration area and post-race festivities. It is nice to just hop on the bus after drinking some free beers. :)
Finish time was 1:03:17 (avg 6:49 min/mi). I earned a Top-10% finisher hat.




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New Job - Senior Site Reliability Engineer
- Saturday, December 15 2018 @ 08:10 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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On my first day they put me at a desk next to the window and I received a nice t-shirt (swag!).

The company just moved to a brand-new office building located in the mixed-use development known as Celebration Pointe.

As a long-time "Linux on the desktop" user, one of my initial challenges has been getting used to MacOS.

I am excited to have plenty of great things to learn. Besides on-the-job training, I am currently working thru a list of Linux Academy training courses. I finished up Docker Deep Dive this past week.

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New Ceph Storage Hardware for iDigBio
- Thursday, September 20 2018 @ 12:56 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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The new hardware is racked and has received the base OS (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS). Ceph makes RAID obsolete, but to get the best utility out of the hardware we needed to flash each LSI controller with "IT" firmware. IT in this context means Initiator Target (also known as passthru). Ceph guides suggest IT/JBOD configuration in the storage controllers to maximize performance and to prevent crappy controller caches from interfering with Ceph's own redundancy.
Our servers from Supermicro include the LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 adapter. Each host also contains 11 storage drives at 12TB each (plus an SSD for the boot drive), 16 cores of Xeon Sky Lake processor, a whopping 256 GB of RAM, and 10 gig ethernet plugged into the University of Florida Campus Research Network (CRN).
Here are pictures of myself and Nicholas Rejack doing the firmware updates:

Photo by Grace Hong

Photo by Grace Hong
The new cluster contains over 900TB raw, getting us close to a Petabyte.
I am now working through SaltStack and systemd configurations, working up to the point where we can actually begin migrating objects from the old cluster to the new cluster.
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GATE River Run 15k 2018 - Race Report
- Friday, March 23 2018 @ 05:28 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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I rode the Florida Track Club bus to Jacksonville on the day of the race which was a great way to travel so early in the morning and not have to worry about parking. The bus parked inside the event grounds, very close to the registration area and post-race festivities.
I was not in top shape for racing, still fighting with some unhappy muscles / tendons here and there, so I planned to go out conservatively to see how I felt. This strategy worked well, I was able to keep my pace consistent throughout the race, push all the way up the Hart bridge and right over the top and have a very strong final mile.
My final time was 1:01:53 (avg. 6:38 per mile) which was good enough to earn a Top 10% finisher hat.
Some pics:

photo credit: marathon-photos.com
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More Screenshots of ARK: Survival Evolved on Linux
- Saturday, August 12 2017 @ 12:17 AM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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I thought I would post a few more screenshots.
The most recent patch (264.36 released on August 9, 2017) seems to have fixed a rendering bug (where water texture did not render properly) that was introduced a few patches ago. Also, I note that ARK seems to load a LOT faster now on Linux. I have not had a chance to see if Caves are still broken / unplayable on Linux due to rendering bugs like this:

The GOOD news is that the game continues to improve. These screenshots are from the free Ragnarok DLC huge expansion map:




The following screenshots are from older patch levels and / or other maps:
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Don't trash your Torch router just yet
- Friday, August 11 2017 @ 10:57 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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"Torch. A simple router for digital parenting."
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-parenting
I was apparently not a backer but bought the product through their store so I am unable to leave a comment on Kickstarter (backers only). Maybe a backer will find this blog and post a comment on Kickstarter for the rest of the unfortunate customers.

This Torch router apparently depended on having access to the Torch cloud services which have been shutdown.
https://www.pcwrt.com/2017/06/the-tor...-is-better
This all happened before I even had a chance to turn mine on for the first time.
However, thanks to the fine folks at pcWRT, I was able to flash a new ROM onto the Torch and I now have a working router!
I just followed the basic steps in their quick flashing guide:
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