The Bobiverse - Explained

Post 1 – Bob’s Trip to Epsilon Eridani

I’m going to keep this first post pretty simple. It’s based on these two excerpts: Chapter 13: Bob – August 17, 2133 – Enroute “Epsilon Eridani is 10.52 light-years away from Sol. The specs indicated that the ship could run at 2g indefinitely with no ill effects, which would get me to my target star […]

The Bobiverse - Explained

Introduction

Welcome to The Bobiverse – Explained. I, like you, am a big fan of Dennis E Taylor’s Bobiverse books, well, the first three at least. Since Dennis writes in the genre known as hard science fiction, I thought it would be fun to write a series of blog posts that explore the science behind the

General

JWST Images

Sorry for the really large header images but one can’t get enough of these amazing photos taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

General

Favourite Books of 2021

While 2021 was another sucky year with respect to all that’s happening in the world, it will definitely go down as my all-time book reading record, with well over 100 books read this year. Sadly, the Pinterest widget only displays the last 50 pins in a board, so you’ll see less than half the books

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Favourite Books of 2020

2020 was another good reading year for me with 64 books read. While this post comes late, better late than never in some cases. It was challenging to choose 3 favourites from the past year. While there were many good books, not as many stood out strongly as they had the year before. Possibly the

unRAID

Update dnsmasq in OpenWRT for unRAID

I’ve been having some router issues and have temporarily moved from dd-wrt to Open-WRT. Since I have https turned on for my unRAID server, I needed to modify the dnsmasq file so that I can access the unRAID GUI, as DNS rebinding protection is turned on by default in OpenWRT. Spaceinvader One shows how to

Hackintosh, Mac OS X

Creating a RAM disk in unRAID (and macOS)

I’ve been playing around with unRAID for about a month now and find it very interesting. I just purchased 2 10 GBE ASUS/Aquantia NICs and wanted to test the network transfer speed. Unfortunately, one quickly finds out the Array and/or SSD cache read speeds become the bottleneck and you don’t see the full 10 Gbps

General

Favourite Books of 2019

Ah, one of those dreaded “best of” posts. As you can see from my Books page, I managed to read/listen to 71 books this year. Granted, several of them were short stories or novellas, but still, a new record for me! Given this new PR, I thought I would post my 3 favourite books from

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