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Author: mnbf9rca

  • Your Next T-Shirt Will Be Made by a Robot

    The clothing industry has long relied on low cost labour in developing countries, but advances in industrial robotics and machine learning and vision, at reducing cost, mean even those jobs are now at risk. https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/industrial-robots/your-next-tshirt-will-be-made-by-a-robot Georgia Tech spin-off SoftWear Automation is developing ultrafast sewing robots that could upend the clothing industry

  • China’s Uber says it’s time to go global

    "For the past two decades, it was China who learned more from the US," he says. "But in the next 10 years, we'll ride on each other's successes. There's no point thinking who will surpass who." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43735023 The head of China’s ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing says his team is young, idealistic and full of surprises.

  • The NVIDIA GPU Accelerated Cloud (NGC) for Deep Learning and HPC

    An interesting move from hardware vendor to PaaS provider: The NVIDIA GPU Accelerated Cloud (NGC) for Deep Learning and HPC https://www.nvidia.co.uk/gpu-cloud/ A GPU-accelerated cloud platform with access to catalog of fully integrated and optimized containers for deep learning and HPC frameworks. Learn more.

  • LetsEncrypt with DNS-01 validation for Unifi

    Update 2021-01-08: this is now out of date. See my updated post with a much easier method. I have a number of Ubiquiti UAPs, and I manage them with the UniFi app, installed on a linode server. Like any publicly hosted server, i want to use a trusted SSL certificate, and for that, I chose…

  • How to upgrade VMWare ESXi on HP Gen8 Microserver

    go to VMware ESXi Patch Tracker and check for the latest ImageProfile e.g. ESXi-6.5.0-20170404001-standard Shut down all VMs and turn on maintenance mode allow outbound firewall requests esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient execute the update: esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.5.0-20170404001-standard -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml Disable firewall ports esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e false -r…

  • Fix: /var/lib/docker/aufs/diff is consuming entire drive

    Some of my docker containers were complaining that they didn’t have enough drive space. This looked odd – so i logged in to the host and checked around: All space used up. Huh. Wonder why? I did a quick check to see what’s using most space: clearly /var/lib/docker/aufs/diff is what’s causing it. Let’s clean that up:…

  • Creating a VM to test Docker – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It

    onwards… downloaded the Ubuntu 16.04 Server LTS CD Created new VM Connected ISO to virtual DVD in console in VMWare vSphere client booted to the ISO pressed F4 and selected “minimal” pressed F6 and selected minimal VM walked through and added SSH at the right point SSHd to the server I installed docker using these instructions,…

  • Fix: Flashing an M1015 – Error code = 64 Failed to flash the image. Please retry recovery

    I purchased an IBM M1015 to use as an HBA in my server. As part of that, I wanted to flash it with the IT firmware, however, I was getting errors, even when I used the original IBM firmware from their website (my mirror copy): I’d never seen an M1015 before, at least not close…

  • Installing VMWare – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It

    get image installed to internal 32gb microSD steps: https://seiler.it/vmware-esxi-5-5-installation-hp-proliant-microserver-gen8/ Remember to use the v88 driver: http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/11159-esxi-6-cant-degrade-the-hpvsa-driver-to-v88/?p=116554

  • How to flash IBM ServeRaid M1015 to LSI9211-IT for ZFS in HP Gen8 Microserver

    First things first – you do this at your own risk. I take no responsibility for anything going wrong – and it can go wrong. If you are in doubt – don’t do it. And if it goes wrong – don’t blame me… The original instructions for this task are here, with my additions to update to the…