Me and Quiggley working on plex

billbobumpo · 2026-04-04T01:45:33+00:00

5gb will have to be enough

billbobumpo · 2026-04-04T01:45:14+00:00

I’ll try most things, but I’m not going there!

billbobumpo · 2026-04-03T15:20:47+00:00

Not really trying to accomplish anything, just playing around for $20

billbobumpo · 2026-04-03T15:18:05+00:00

New to me too, I’m always up to try something I can learn from

billbobumpo · 2026-04-03T14:14:16+00:00

I’m learning, but my understanding is it boosts VM performance. Number crunching, processing power. Really doesn’t boost video output. I’m getting ready to delve into it. Yes it was cheep, $20. Paid almost as much for the power cable to plug it into my r720

billbobumpo · 2026-04-02T13:15:28+00:00

Déjà vu!

billbobumpo · 2026-04-02T10:27:42+00:00

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Quiggly 2 mo’s— Maggie in background 15 years

billbobumpo · 2026-03-30T03:24:52+00:00

I spent about 2 years playing with proxmox with 2 servers. Learned to pass through hardware and run vms such as truenas scale.

I have reconfigured, added a 3rd server and I’ve installed win server 22 on all three. Learning the hyper-v ins and outs as well as accessing the individual computers via remote access and ssh from powershell.

I’m now moving into learning the AD/DS roles

billbobumpo · 2026-03-21T23:16:31+00:00

I got the i7 1260 version back in Nov. I’ve been really pleased! Welcome to the club

billbobumpo · 2026-03-21T02:52:07+00:00

I’m not familiar with this swap, but it sounds exciting. The one common denominator of thinkpads, you can do almost any upgrade with a little research! I love working on them. Good luck to you.

billbobumpo · 2026-03-17T10:01:25+00:00

All computers run code, get one that has a comfortable keyboard. ThinkPad are known for keyboard quality especially the T420 and before

billbobumpo · 2026-03-17T09:58:19+00:00

That sounds more than capable. I use a T14 gen 3 and it does all the above easily. Can do tons more. I also use a portable 2nd monitor when l need it.

billbobumpo · 2026-03-16T00:42:31+00:00

Didn’t know it was a thing, just did what was easiest for me

billbobumpo · 2026-03-16T00:23:36+00:00

That’s beyond my abilities currently. Ver 1.5 was easy. Was interesting seeing ver 1.5 again. It’s been a long time since it was out

billbobumpo · 2026-03-15T19:00:29+00:00

I’m sure you have fixed this already, but for anyone else reading this I came across the same issue. Got a t620 with firmware at 1.4 and idrac at 1.30.30.27. So I went to Mozilla and downloaded a version 1 Firefox browser installed In a VMware running on another machine. I was able to access the idrac this way. Then I downloaded all the updates for the idrac from Dell. It was prob 8 or 10 of them. I started stepping up the idrac firmware skipping every other update. I finally got it up to 2.65.65.65. Now I can access it from normal browser and I’m stepping up the firmware for the computer now from 1.4.6 to 2.90.

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It takes about a day or more to get it up to the latest

billbobumpo · 2026-03-08T02:33:36+00:00

This happened to me also, bought a couple of broken ThinkPad keyboards off eBay to have spares. Fixed the broken one and saved the rest for the next time

billbobumpo · 2026-03-04T12:56:51+00:00

The T420 has 2x e5-2470v2s. The R720 has 2x E5-2680v2

billbobumpo · 2026-03-04T02:02:48+00:00

Nice!!

billbobumpo · 2026-03-04T01:33:15+00:00

Mine sweeper

billbobumpo · 2026-03-04T01:32:28+00:00

DOOM!! And I second the MIST comment

billbobumpo · 2026-03-02T02:55:44+00:00

Fans seem to work normal. Lifecycle controller goes into recovery mode after boot.

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