As I've done from time to time, this blog serves as a bit of a bench-notes of what I did. However, maybe someone else hits the same problem, and finds my blog via search. About a month back, the new nVidia 2080 Ti card was announced. I decided to hit up eBay to see if anyone was selling off a 1080 Ti, and I was not disappointed in the price drops....
I know this. Read the fine print. I didn't do that. The rest is geeky details having to do with rack-mountable servers. I have a 12U rack. Sort-of an end-table next to the couch. I have two servers. One of them is happily racked. The other one is awkwardly sitting sideways across the top of the rack. I jumped on eBay a week ago, looking to find the rails I need....
I already have tickets for two other conventions this year, but NYCC is the big one that happens in the city where I live and work. I know in the last few years tickets have been harder and harder to get, and I figured my chances were not going to be very good. If this is too long one can safely scroll down to the Conclusion at the bottom. I tried to buy tickets to NYCC the minute they went on sale....
Thanks for the invites. I have a small collection now. I can't use Google+, and here's why. I use Google Apps for Domains. This allows me to do all sorts of things with vollink.com. However, Google hasn't opened Google+ up for domains accounts yet. I /could/ use a Google account that isn't already associated with my domains account. However, with a domains account, Google tracks my login across the browser, which means to use a different Google account, I either have to use a different browser for the other account, or I would have to log out of all Google services first....