After last year, I wanted to slow my reading progress and hopefully find more joy in it, rather feeling like a hamster on a wheel. Of course, that’s not really how it turned out. For whatever reason, I flew through quite a few books early in the year and things just went from there. Like […]
I thought I might do a smaller/quicker post about Bob’s trip from Earth to Saturn before he heads out to Epsilon Eridani. Since Bob isn’t moving very fast, no relativistic physics is required, you can get away with go ol’ Newtonian mechanics (kinematics really, we aren’t considering forces here). The relevant excerpts are: Chapter 13:
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
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
Sorry for the really large header images but one can’t get enough of these amazing photos taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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
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
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
This post is a follow up to the previous post about creating RAM disks on unRAID and macOS in order to test network transfer speeds. I actually used this method first, as it was the easier of the two and gave me exact transfer rates. The key is to use iPerf3. Installing iPerf3 on unRAID
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