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This site will take you on the 40+ year journey into being an engineer
Husband to an amazing wife and two adorable children.
Firstly, The website covers the beginning (1982-1990s) of my journey from gaming rigs I built, Secondly, my home lab growing to what is it today, Thirdly, tech sites I visit, books and movies I recommend and educational sites I use. Finally, the website teaches and helps you build your own home lab from Hyper-V, Dropbox and Veeam for backing up, How to build your own web server on VMWare 6 and Hyper-V. create mulitple Minecraft Servers of all flavors: Java, Bedrock, Noeforge, and Folia. My Fortinet firewall setup and notes to protect your home and business from threats. STEM was created for my Arduino, Electrical Engineering and Raspberry Pi projects
They call me SCSIraidGURU because I build this monster of a workstation.
Four x Supermicro five drive SCSI hotswap enclosures for 18 SCSI 36GB drives and two spares. Two enclosures internal and two external. The external chassis had a customed built PC Power and Cooling 750W power supply wired to turn on when the light switch was turned on. My workstations can be shutdown from wall switches on 20A circuits.
What’s new
4.16.26: I added a new page called Climate Lies and BS! . I will contain information on all the lies and BS about the climate. What Solar and Wind costs America and the world. Interesting story on the tilt to the Earth from removing ground water. I will have articles on AI and Data Centers having effects on ground water and the power grid.
I brought home an HP Z840 workstation to replace my HP DL360E Gen8 VMWare 6 server. I installed WIndows 2022 Standard Hyper-V on the Z840. I created Hyper-V VM server. More in the Hyper-V
Udemy and Hillsdale courses
I am looking for my next interesting, amazing engineering project. It could be cyber security, network architecture, IPv6, etc.
Contact me to join along. I spend my time building Minecraft servers for our children to play on. We bought them two refurbished computers for Christmas 2024. I study at Hillsdale College Online Courses.
I signed up for courses at Udemy.
Java Masterclass 2025: 130+ Hours of Expert Lessons
Develop Minecraft Plugins (Java)
Modding By Kaupenjoe: Minecraft Modding 1.20.X for Forge
The AI Engineer Course 2025: Complete AI Engineer Bootcamp
Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10
100 Days of Code: The Complete Python Pro Bootcamp
OpenStack Essentials: Waste of time: Can’t build the Openstack
OpenStack Installation and Deployment
My first major Java app
My first Java project is a math program for our 8 and 10 year old children. I can print out math sheets for MDAS: Multiplication, Division, Adding, and Subtracting.
Math Pages was programmed for our children. It does Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division pages for them. On 10.15.25, I finished another module for carry over problems for our daughter who is in 4th grade. 1,000,000 to 9,999,999. Both addition and subtraction. 10 to a page. Sample below.
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Part of these Udemy classes was creating a github account.
https://github.com/SCSIraidGURU-Dev
Things to think about and ponder on
My late father always said the easy road is never the right road to take.
Knowledge requires effort and time to gain.
From Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium:
Unlikely adventures require unlikely tools.
Your life is an occasion, Rise to it!
From Babylon 5
Never fear answers, only fear running out of questions.
My mentor said to be called an engineer you need three things?”
1.) You needed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering.
2.) Experience and the education into the future. We continue our education beyond our Bachelor’s degree. We research new technology to better serve the corporation’s needs. We bring new ideas to the table.
3.) Engineers bring solutions not problems to management.
I believe it is better to know than be ignorant. I believe it is better to tell the truth than lie. I believe it is better to be free than be a slave.