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ZFS: third time through
Fascinating–I had just finished a scrub on June 6. Then a drive started dying. Now I’ve attempted to replace it, but an adjacent drive also had errors. I feel like I’m in a bit of a pickle. This snapshot had the error, so I deleted the snapshot and did a zfs clear tank, and the…
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Just a Hutch
Right? I had to squeeze this photo with perspective transform a few times to get the snapshot looking the way I wanted. Smoothed color layer, desaturated contrast layer.
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Dual wood dice boxes
This was an interesting project. One of them did not turn out as well as I hoped. Oak tends to chip. Tiny magnets are a real pain to glue in.
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Next Scrap
This beautiful piece of wood was passed on from an instrument builder, it looks like a perfect species for a fretboard. It’s 1-1/4″ thick. I desire 7/8″ for dice to slide, and 13/16″ is narrow enough to make them wedge. I have some narrow gauge saw blades but not nearly so thin as a band…
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Maple dice box
I came across a 2×6 scrap of what I’ve been told is maple. I sawed it up into a few dice boxes that I’m using my router to hollow. Each is going to be finished with linseed oil, but constructed in slightly different manners. This one is the first time I’ve used brass threaded inserts,…
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Adding Lots of Storage Pools to Libvirt
I do not enjoy having subdirectories involved for storing files in libvert. The virt-manager interface is just way too brutal about how you manually add storage pools. After much ranting, I wrote a bash script to add these directories for my VM disk images. 1 #!/bin/bash 2 3 set -e 4 #set -x 5 existing_pools=()…
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Bass of Spades assembled!
Jesse worked hard on the Bass from morning to night, with some long interruptions to build fencing around the chicken run. We started off the morning by soldering the knobs and and the pickups. It took filing a rough spot on the bridge and flux to get the ground wire soldered to the bridge. Then…