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Comcast vs Level 3…

So I avoided writing a post about the TSA hoopla (one might still come out of that yet…), but this Comcast stuff seems to be hitting close to home, since I’m a Comcast “customer”, a Netflix Subscriber, and a Net Neutrality aficionado. In the most recent hysteria, Time Warner has come out in support of Comcast. Comcast’s original response to Level 3′s complaint really kinda pissed me off.

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New Server…Pollux

Pollux is the latest addition to my ever-shrinking stable of machines, and is the first of a two stage process to replace my VM server with a trio of small, lightweight machines to handle my production server duties.

Prior to this month, I had Altair, Polaris, and Vega. Altair was my primary file server with massive internal storage, Polaris was dedicated to “services”, and Vega just kinda sat where ever I could find a hole with power and ethernet.

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File Server Upgrades

So this summer when energy started to go through the roof I decided it was time to “green up” a little more and get more energy efficient about things, not to mention lower my electric bill as much as possible. So shortly after classes started this semester I picked up a Kill-A-Watt and did some measurements.

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