Lots of stuff and things lately. Finally finished the Atlassian migration.
It does still require work, upgrading things to a supported version that
allows me to migrate the next set of Atlassian foo. But that's for another
week. Speaking of Carcosa Corp, found out we're offically moving offices
to the main set of offices in DFW. Not sure how much it will apply to me,
since there's no current plan to move the DC we have. So that's something
we need to work out. Move is in the next quarter or two. Looking forward
to yet another wild fun of moving offices.
Speaking of moving, it's offical, I'm not moving this year. Too much
other stuff going on. Work, timing, my own stress levels, and when the
season of hot hits the area. So I signed a 9 month leason (starts May 1st),
so I'll be trying to move right after the New year 2020. No idea where I'm
going still. Will depend on work, on what I can find, and honestly,
where is the best location for access to my favorite book haunts. So instead
of moving I'm going to do a major declutter and moving of stuff into
storage, and getting rid of things I'll never use or need again. (already
have several bags of clothes to go to Goodwill). So hopefully when it
comes time to move, I won't be in a huge scramble. We'll see.
Weekend was helping a friend out, managed to get myself majorly dusted, and
tweaked my back. So I'm taking it easy tonight, watching movies and taking
it easy. Tomorrow is probably chores, assuming I feel like moving around.
Then it's another crazy week of work. And that's all I have, and have
had for the last couple of hours. So I guess I'll call this a post.
Monthly Archives: February 2019
Say Hello to Byatis
I replaced my media player system with a new computer. Shoggoth has worked
pretty well over the last few years, but it's been struggling more and more
with larger files/bluray encoded files. Since it's a Intel Celeron 1.5 ghz
CPU, it's not surprising. So a couple of weeks ago, Woot.com had a deal on a Lenovo M93P Tiny Desktop. Dual core Intel
i5, 8 gigs of RAM, and a 128g SSD. So faster drive and a lot more CPU.
(same RAM, but I can add another 8 gig stick if needed). So I finally
felt up to moving hardware around today. Got everything wired up, well other
than using a wireless keyboard and mouse to talk to Byatis. Installed
Ubuntu MATE 18.10 (yes the same version
I had headaches with upgrading Dagon. But a media system has a lot less
moving parts, and other than a couple of goofs requiring a reinstall, the
install went smooth. Setup the usual things, big thing was to get VLC
installed and tested. There's a few quirks with controlling VLC, but nothing
I can't adapt to. Or I can find something to tweak to make it simpler.
We'll see.
So here you go, the building of my new media server, Byatis. Oh, if you don't recognize the name, Wikipedia has you covered.
So here you go, the building of my new media server, Byatis. Oh, if you don't recognize the name, Wikipedia has you covered.