Build

Why right? Short answer, I had 2 server builds and 1 of them smoked in the literal sense. Smoke was coming from the CPU socket and I had to put the air purifier in max to get rid of the awful smell. It was supposed to be a ProxMox build to host all of my VMs in my home lab. What an epic fail! Smoked Build It was my first time ever building PCs that went horribly wrong. But the good news is I can salvage most everything from the build except for the PSU, CPU, Motherboard and GPU. I remember I had a slip of the fingers when I was installing the GPU into the motherboard but I was sure I didn’t knocked any components in the GPU. To be safe, I wrote off that old Quadro GPU. ...

Last night was thankful. All of us Ex Urbanesia gathered with Selina as a sponsor. Unfortunately we couldn’t meet up for as long as we’d want to but I managed to learn a thing or two. It’s satisfying to meet them all, it’s been a fun ride for the last 3.5 years. This blog post serves as a melting pot of what I’ve gained and also lost for the amount of time I was at Urbanesia. ...

I had 2 lunches today. The second lunch was reinvigorating. The venue was at Hillside Canteen Kompas Gramedia. Cheeky name ain’t it for a well known amazing transit hotel near TB Simatupang. I guess all the creative energy was spent wisely. As always, when you talk and talk, you forget which a leads to b and c and so on and so forth. Basically the talk was about Durex “Fundawear”. If you don’t know about it, get to know, takes flirting to a new level. ...

Been trying to build my own Android build server only to find insufficient resource to do so like here. After some digging around, I found the perfect deal for this to happen. I found Reliable Hosting Services while reading through some blog posts here. The specs I went for is below: 2 CPU Cores 1 GB RAM 200 GB Disk 1000 GB Bandwidth Price: US$ 5/month Got it for cheap using a coupon code available at the blog post link I posted above. ...