Husband, father, coder, photographer, traveler.
BTW, if you’re wanting to install Catalina on your Mac with APFS but don’t have a second drive, open Disk Utility and add a second volume.  It will share the storage with your primary volume, while still giving you a clean “partition†to work with.
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Just copied a 6GB file across the network in 8 seconds flat. 10GB Ethernet FTW.
In my latest video, I talk about the crop factor on Canon DSLRs while recording 4K video. It’s a hassle creatively, but there are good reasons they design the cameras this way.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/Ym9h3np3w0M
So tired of Michigan weather. Out at the baseball field with a temperature of 53° and 28 mph gusts…in May. And this isn’t even the coldest game this season.
Perfect month, for the first time ever.
I recorded an unboxing video of the Pegasus2 M4. I came across this desktop RAID for a fraction of the retail cost and couldn’t resist. It’s a really cool tiny RAID.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/mU0n4_qv4Fo
I like this little one… #ssdraid
It’s been a couple of months since I’ve had a chance to create a video, but I just posted a review of the 2018 Mac mini:
View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0UEB3JUY15U
So pissed off right now. Spent about an hour recording video with a Rode VideoMic Go, and the mic picked up a ton of static from the WiFi base station nearby. The video is now completely unusable.
I need a new mic that actually has a shielded cable so I can use it in a room with electronics.
15 years ago today I committed to starting Gaucho Software by registering gauchosoft.com. It’s hard to believe I’ve been doing this for so long. Still absolutely love being an Indie!
Picked up a couple of Cisco 48 port Layer 3 switches for $20 each today at the local university’s surplus sale. Hoping at least one of them works so I can use it for my main network switch (will still have 10Gb on a separate switch/VLAN).
After 8 hours, still less than a third of the way done building the RAID. Once this is finished, I’ll have over 100TB of raw storage in the rack.
The only thing worse than 35° and rain is 28° and rain. #ice
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/28/2013-mac-pro-postponed-us-screw-shortage/
I guess you could say Apple was…screwed.
Also: “The report reveals an interesting anecdote about the latest Mac Pro. In late 2012…” Yes, we’re still talking about the “top-end” Mac being sold in 2019.
On track to run out of storage on the 30TB NAS hosting my backups in about 3 months. Â Might have to upgrade sooner rather than later.
I photographed a conference a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a video I just posted detailing the gear I used to capture the event.
Made another step in the jump to 10Gb Ethernet today. Now I’ve got 2 of 3 servers on 10Gb and both desktop Macs on it too. Getting 8-9Gb/sec throughput, even without jumbo frames.
(Yellow is 10Gb, purple is 1Gb.)
There was an amazing sun pillar this morning at sunrise. Pulled over to grab a shot (just north of St. Johns, MI).
Had a great week in Phoenix for #AMS2019. EIPT had a lot of great content this year, and kudos to everyone who volunteered to cover gov employees who couldn’t make it (NOAA/NWS, you were missed).
See you next year for #AMS100!
I took a month off from posting on YouTube. Here’s a quick video on traveling light for the holidays…