Workstation Power at Home – Part 2 – FFmpeg

This is part 2 in my article series on using a Xeon based 6 core 12 thread workstation at home to offload CPU intensive tasks from my notebook to a more powerful and fast server. At the end of the introduction I had an example of how my picture fix, rotate compression tool runs 5 … Continue reading Workstation Power at Home – Part 2 – FFmpeg

5G and My Headless Workstation

It’s a bit of a strange headline perhaps but my recent blog posts on working with a headless workstation that supplies extra CPU muscle to my working setup has a lot to do with the envisaged 5G evolution of wireless networks and services. Let me explain…

KVM/Qemu vs Virtualbox for my Cloud at Home

After telling my story about upgrading and virtualizing my cloud at home in a previous post, I thought I’d follow-up on the story with some technical details on my new implementation. After deciding to migrate the services I host at home such as Nextcloud, Selfoss, OpenVPN, etc., into virtual machines, the big question was which … Continue reading KVM/Qemu vs Virtualbox for my Cloud at Home

Ubuntu Linux on the Bleeding Edge: Performance on a Notebook with an Intel 12800H and an Nvidia GPU – Part 2

In the previous blog post, I’ve been taking a look if and how well Ubuntu Linux runs on a high performance notebook with a state of the art Intel 12800H processor and an Nvidia RTX A2000 8GB GPU. While it took me a bit to set up the system so it wouldn’t sporadically freeze and … Continue reading Ubuntu Linux on the Bleeding Edge: Performance on a Notebook with an Intel 12800H and an Nvidia GPU – Part 2

Bare Metal in the Cloud – Part 1 – Let’s Rent Hardware

So far, the public cloud has pretty much been ‘virtual machines’ for me, with varying numbers of CPUs, memory and storage, depending on the application. Recently, however, I’ve been looking for a way run copies of my home cloud based virtual machines (VMs) and Docker containers in a data center for redundancy purposes. For this … Continue reading Bare Metal in the Cloud – Part 1 – Let’s Rent Hardware

Ffmpeg Comparison – From Nvidia to Raspberry Pi 4

Last year I post-processed videos from the Vintage Computing Festival 2020 on my rather old notebook and was quite underwhelmed by the time it took. Even VMs in the cloud did not significantly speed up the process. This year I’ve had a workstation with an Nvidia graphics card and hardware H264 encoding for the purpose … Continue reading Ffmpeg Comparison – From Nvidia to Raspberry Pi 4

Coding and Deploying From the Edge of the Observable Internet

o.k., the title of this post is a bit of a mouthful but I found the analogy to the Observable Universe and what lies beyond interesting. This post is about an interesting learning experience I went through a number of times in recent weeks: Staying at places for several days with marginal Internet connectivity and … Continue reading Coding and Deploying From the Edge of the Observable Internet