{"id":34,"date":"2021-11-01T16:34:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T03:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2022-06-25T02:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T13:05:53","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/flashing-unofficial-lineageos-20-on-a-11-year-old-tablet-google-nexus-7-2013\/\">Flashing (unofficial) LineageOS 20 on a 11-year old tablet (Google Nexus 7 2013)<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-06-26T23:21:12+12:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">June 26, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Recently I discovered how handy a small and inexpensive tablet can be for stuff like reading e-books or connecting to Bluetooth serial for debugging embedded applications. Not quite sure how much I actually needed it and didn&#8217;t want to spend much on a new tablet, I came across a bulk listing of 10 faulty Google&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/flashing-unofficial-lineageos-20-on-a-11-year-old-tablet-google-nexus-7-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flashing (unofficial) LineageOS 20 on a 11-year old tablet (Google Nexus 7 2013)<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/28\/troubleshooting-slow-read-speeds-from-ltfs-volumes-on-windows-10\/\">Troubleshooting Slow Read Speeds from LTFS Volumes on Windows 10<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-06-28T22:20:54+12:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">June 28, 2023<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Background A while ago, I got two LTO-6 tape drives for practically free (previous post here). Since then, I&#8217;ve been using them for archival storage of video files. I chose LTFS for its open format and independence of backup software, and I&#8217;ve been using it on my primary PC running Windows 10. To make sure&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/28\/troubleshooting-slow-read-speeds-from-ltfs-volumes-on-windows-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Troubleshooting Slow Read Speeds from LTFS Volumes on Windows 10<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/troubleshooting-a-failed-import-in-a-pyinstaller-build\/\">Troubleshooting a Failed Import in a Pyinstaller Build<\/a><time datetime=\"2022-12-23T17:41:28+12:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">December 23, 2022<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Introduction In late 2020 &#8211; early 2021 I wrote an inventory system in Python for the Formula SAE team I was in (GitHub link to the project). To make distribution easier, I used Pyinstaller to compile the Python program into a binary executable for Windows. The setup worked on several different PCs that don&#8217;t have&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/troubleshooting-a-failed-import-in-a-pyinstaller-build\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Troubleshooting a Failed Import in a Pyinstaller Build<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/2022\/10\/29\/turning-an-hp-bl460c-gen8-server-blade-into-a-pc\/\">Turning an HP BL460c Gen8 Server Blade into a PC<\/a><time datetime=\"2022-10-29T22:39:45+12:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">October 29, 2022<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">In a previous post, I wrote about getting an HP server blade and getting it to work without a blade centre. In this post, I&#8217;ll document what I did to turn the setup into a self-contained PC. Chassis Build Firstly, I needed to house everything together in a strong enough structure. I chose the 2020&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/2022\/10\/29\/turning-an-hp-bl460c-gen8-server-blade-into-a-pc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turning an HP BL460c Gen8 Server Blade into a PC<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/2022\/09\/10\/running-an-hp-bl460c-gen8-server-blade-without-the-enclosure\/\">Running an HP BL460c Gen8 Server Blade Without the Enclosure<\/a><time datetime=\"2022-09-10T13:16:19+12:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 10, 2022<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Introduction A few months ago, while browsing a computers auction store as usual I noticed a $1 reserve server blade &#8211; the HP BL460c Gen 8, with two E5 2640 v2 CPUs. That looks like a good deal to me! I got to know about blade servers when I was looking at getting some cheap&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/2022\/09\/10\/running-an-hp-bl460c-gen8-server-blade-without-the-enclosure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Running an HP BL460c Gen8 Server Blade Without the Enclosure<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayssite.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}