raid
the windows program diskpart provides useful disk info. there seem to only be one of the RAID drives appearing in windows. the drive is marked as Type: Spaces which isn't right - it should be RAID.
DISKPART> det dis
Microsoft Storage Space Device
Disk ID: {EB27799F-963C-11EA-B049-B42E993DD510}
Type : Spaces
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 1
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 6 G Raid2 NTFS Partition 1853 GB Healthyharddrive B is the WDwith serial number WCC64N4DF54FH. was removed from computer and the Raid2 drive is still present and mounted at G:\
it appears that disk A is the disk shown in the output above (id ending in B42E993DD510).
clearly i don't know how raid works in windows - it creates same id for both drives and hides the existence of one...
i'm going to move linux, VMs, and applications out to the cruicla 1TB drive since it's not as critical as personal videos
not entirely sure how to solve this problem
I have two 2TB SSDs that would be nice to have in RAID. but honestly the old spinny disks might be enough. something to consider in the future. for the sake of time i'll solve this later. the Raid2 disks can sit in cold storage for now. I'll leave the workspace backups in the DanA4 case as well as the crucial 1Tb drive and whittle down the projects (a major issue is the proliferation of unity projects.)
this is asking for automation - write a program that iterates through my unity projects and deletes any files and folders not related to being able to load the project directly...
data organization
the worst offenders are the stylegan data and the unity projects on the archive drive. order of operations, all but unity get copied to transition drive
the life of a computer
Virtual machines moved from 2 TB transition data drive.
installing virtualbox 7
getting this to load the virtual machine file is hell
first, there is an error that it cannot load (or find) the nvram file.
trying to rename the VDI file also throws an error that it cant register the harddisk since it is already registered.
i want to write updates directly to pacstrap from the develop computer. sidenote - i really miss the keys on the optical bluie keyboard gosh they are just sooooooooo nice feeling.
ssh-keygenthe defaults work, cat out the .pub and paste into authorized_keys
download sharpkeys msi from the github page
map CAPS to CTRL_Lnow i'm having a much nicer typing experience. note: i should add this mapping note to reference (along with the hackier windows changes like disabling web search)
it works!
i had to use the virtual media manager to delete the old reference (this is what was throwing the UUID error after renaming the .vdi file). then i reset the harddrive for the virtual machine and powered up successfully.
i changed the shared folder from the old setup (physical drive called Archive) to a single folder called workspace on the desktop.
updating the arch dist with pacman. it's been a while and is throwing GPG sig errors. the quick hack fix is to reinstall the keyring to trigger updates (rather than remember the command to refresh them...)
sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyringtime to undervolt this machine with amd's PBO
installed ryzen master to monitor performace and heat and cinema 4d 2024 benchmark software to run the cpu and check for stability issues.
scored 838 on cinebench with no chages.
setting motherboard
scored 845. cpu power capped at 90 W peak clock 4300 Hz
scored 851. cpu power capped at 90 W peak clock 4300 Hz
leaving as is for now
this is so i dont have to use powershell or cmd. annoying that it's done through the microsoft store...
need to reset the firewall settings and the ip address (and ip forwarding rules on router)
the ip is 192.168.1.53 is still the same (assuming mac address continuity?)
this computer was called design
for some reason i thought having a separate computer for blender and art would be a good idea. but i only really used this computer for games and backup of all digital files. I think I still want to keep this as a gaming rig and maybe (just maybe) as a central backup machine (and then make a proper NAS for backing up all my files - organizing my drives...)
i need more visual space when scrolling to find the h1 blocks quickly (generally because i'm writing top down and need to read the last entry of the first h1)
css selectors with logic! select not first-child
:global(h1:not(:first-child)) {
margin-top: 12rem;
}the wipe was easy - there were a handful of things still on the desktop that were dev-like. looks like i never really was going to flex on this weird setup - desgin-y but not a workstation, a gaming rig but also a place to store and manage all my files...i really need to just setup a NAS and be done.
after reinstall, generally following the same pattern as for the develop computer. turning most windows things off, switch caps to ctrl, install firefox. installing amd graphics drivers.
games. steam and epic installed. baldurs gate 3, kerbal space program 2, and dave the diver is all.
was stuck in bootloop to diagnostics tool a couple time. finally loaded and booted up whatever was on the SSD - a windows 10 install for someone named "even taieb"
leaving a link to a CMOS resettingx1 carbon password reset
nope!
all i had to do was pull the CMOS battery wiring under the keyboard - now the good old BIOS screen is avail. excellent - putting the laptop back together now.
now we're cooking with archlinux
the death of a computer
The powersupply on the workstation (DanA4 case) is fried after a few electrical surges. It appears that the surge protector was useless connected to an outlet that had an improper ground. It was the only running computer affected by the surge. the circuit that powers the server rack is correctly grounded and has two layers of surge protection.
I bought an SF850L and a RM850e pwoer supply from newegg. the SF850L isn't going to work as a replacement for the dan-a4 case sinec it is SFX-L sized (not SFX).
I went to microcenter to buy the corsair SF750 platinum plus.
I purchased a pair of computer test bench frames. These are very barebone tslotted rail kits. One was already built. I placed the workstation pc on it along with the newly purchased powersupply and booted up.
I have to reduce the data footprint I have on the workstation. I have allowed it to bloat way too much. my windows drive is has 200GB free in a 1TB drive and the data drive has 300GB in 1tb free. what a mess.
i have a spare 2 TB SATA drive (new) that I'll use to copy over as much data as possible to wipe the windows drive.
required formatting. this is a completely clean disk. will try to cut-paste
move the entire set of unity projects. created new simple volume with drive
letter O:\ and the temporary name transition data
unity projects really suck in terms of data management. the ~200 gb worth of projects are copying at 3 mb/s because there are so many small files generated during builds.
2 hours of waiting time...
it's making me rethink how i manage projects. not that it's bad to fire up projects from scratch but importantly i have to keep up with deleting and archiving projects. how does one best archive a project?
thoughts on archiving a unity project and how to automate it.
even though i bought it in error i will still use it in the microATX case. the performance metrics and smaller size are desirable over the other standard ATX power supply i got from newegg.
the bil account bloat is very real. there is 184 GB of space, 122 of which is in the virtualbox VM (this is ok) and then 48 GB in appdata.
biggest major rule. no games, no linux OSS dev on the windows devstation (i.e. dan a4 case).
not sure how i'm going to navigate this...
AORUS calls this SVM mode (enabled) - to launch virtual machines
there are lots of SFF optimizations to make. for now i'm only interested in getting the VM back up and running to make sure that i'm not going to drop any data. however, i should trust that the vm is loadable later on...
the core software on the taskbar
the a6000 backup drive has a folder of heraldry images that were marked as favs and unused. the connect 512g samsung 970 is encrypted and loaded as a secondary drive. will disconnect a6000 backup ssd and test nvme alone. I'm assuming this will be a windows boot (and potentially a copoy of the dev machine back when it was running a smaller drive...)
correct! this is a bitlocker bitlocked drive. I will wipe the whole thing into oblivion on the dev station.
there is a 256g drive that is the old version of the archive SSD on the dev station - I will repurpose it as the virtual machine storage location!
dan case is assembled, now to install windows and wipe over the two drives
...
i dont have a windows 10 usb available ... creating one with a microcenter 16gb flash drive and the usb media creation tool from microsoft (running on the yoga laptop)
the install was straight forward from usb drive. on reboot to local disk, followed the windows instructions giving my micrsoft account and declining everything.
once dropped into a account-connect desktop i went into accounts and created a local admin account that isnt associated with a microsoft account. this admin then is able to delete the microsoft account from start
some things i'm doing in no real order
i moved the taskbar to the top cause that is where it belongs.
added ublock origin to firefox
installed the graphics driver without gefroce experience. then changed settings in file explorer to show hidden items, open at MyPC, and show file extensions.
wiping the old Workspace backup drive!!
will call new one Virtual Machines
hit the computer with a reboot (now that nvidia drivers are installed)
i triggered an update check and there are a ton of updates queued. a lot of cumulative updates are happening. i started stacking things back on the taskbar
disabling web search from taskbar. Toms hardware article is helpful. its a regedit hack. first of many...
installing obs and downloading scrcpy (out of habit i'll just leave it in my downloads folder).
things that i still need to do
still wondering what to do about hot module reloading. did the thing work? no. it did not.
Rebuilding bil webservices with the burner laptop as a nginx load balancer and proxy server.
the first problem is that the burner laptop isn't supported by the latest kernel. this means that the touchpad and keyboard aren't functional. needs an external usb keyboard and mouse to operate.
i'll be installing the latest arch and using it only in headless mode. since it's mostly editing nginx configs, I will rely only on using terminal sessions and emacs (i.e. no vscode integration)
using transmission to download 2024.01.01. run the proper dd
command for installing. this can be found in ref.
in the interim, i completed several computing projects all in one. this has culminated in the server rack being reconfigured and now having a proper load balancer set up for the server rack.
some things i did and learned in no particular order
kbd package and load-keys and
dump-keys. there is a longer post about getting this to
work since arch doesn't have an rc-local.service up by default.
this was fun to figure out.and some thoughts of what to do next
i want to be able to hit dev.mywebsite.com and have it resolve to the local npm/vite instance. this instead of reading out the ip in plaintext and having an insecure http connection (even though it arguably doesn't matter.)
trying this out with pacstrap.io. went on google domains and
added the A record there still pointing to the public ip.
on the load-balancer computer, i'll add a separate entry for dev.pacstrap.io
this is throwing a number of errors in the screen session for vite...
The request url "/home/bil/dev/pacstrap-io/.git/config" is outside of Vite serving allow list.tesrt