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New Site Launched – GeekLingo

August 27, 2013 NoGiSlider

Just a short note that I’ve moved most of my tech content to my tech blog site called GeekLingo (geeklingo.net).

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Impact of Rack Power Consumption with new Haswell ESXi Server

June 18, 2013 NoGiVMware ESXi

One of the concerns I had with moving away from a microserver to a full Haswell desktop build for ESXi was a jump in power consumption. With around 4 days of data collected since the new system was installed, I thought that I would do a quick comparison for this month. The graph is a […]

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VT-d Passthrough with ASRock Z87M Pro4

June 13, 2013September 25, 2013 NoGiUncategorized

This post has been moved to my new site. Comments have been disabled here. I can confirm that VT-d passthrough appears to be working just fine with the new ASRock Z87M Pro motherboard. I don’t have a need for it just yet but all the options appear to be available and it’s showing as enabled […]

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ASRock Z87M Pro4 Onboard NIC Not Supported by ESXi

June 8, 2013July 15, 2013 NoGiVMware ESXi

This post has been moved to the new site.

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Building a Consumer Grade ESXi Server with ASRock Z87M Pro4, Intel i7, Corsair Non-ECC RAM

June 7, 2013July 15, 2013 NoGiSlider

I’ve moved this thread to my new site, discussions can happen there.  

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Haswell Based ESXi mATX Server

June 5, 2013August 27, 2013 NoGiVMware ESXi

With the release of the Intel Haswell SKU and Z87 series motherboards, I thought it would be a good time to look at upgrading my ESXi box at home. My current configuration is: HP N54L Microserver 16Gb Kingston ECC RAM HP P410-512 RAID 4 x Hitachi 2TB HDDs My new ESXi server will comprise of […]

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Monitoring Solar Power Panel Generation

March 22, 2013May 6, 2013 NoGiSlider

With Solar being so popular these days, I thought I would write a quick post about how I have mine set up for monitoring solar power panel generation. There are a million ways in which people can achieve this from using Raspberry Pi’s through to having dedicated monitoring devices. This is how I’ve achieved something […]

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Building a Lego Table – All Done

February 17, 2013May 6, 2013 NoGiDIY

And that’s building a lego table all done, and relocated to the gallery. Time to put the containers in and fill them up with Lego Happy customers 😎

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Building a Lego Table – Attaching the base plates

February 16, 2013March 21, 2013 NoGiDIY

What better use for a spare solar inverter than holding the base plates down. 😎

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Building a Lego Table – The Painting

February 10, 2013March 11, 2013 NoGiDIY

Table sanded back and holes patched: Undercoat/Sealant applied: The legs and underside painted red: The top painted green. The paint is self-leveling so most of those ripples should disappear:

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  • New Site Launched – GeekLingo

  • Impact of Rack Power Consumption with new Haswell ESXi Server

  • VT-d Passthrough with ASRock Z87M Pro4

  • ASRock Z87M Pro4 Onboard NIC Not Supported by ESXi

  • Building a Consumer Grade ESXi Server with ASRock Z87M Pro4, Intel i7, Corsair Non-ECC RAM

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