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my server rack at home always starts out

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neat and tidy and then all it takes is a

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project where i've got to attach a dvd drive to my system here and a

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failed router that i just throw a replacement in for there and

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uh some contractors who come and clear

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the fiberglass in my attic leaving fiberglass fibers all over the

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front of my servers and all of a sudden it's a complete and utter mess again but

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not this time this time sponsored by pulseway makers

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of the software that allows you to monitor not just your servers but really

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any mac Windows or Linux machine i am going to be completely properly cable

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managing this once and for all accounting for the next few projects

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that i have coming i will even be yes

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making my own Ethernet patch cables look

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at this isn't this adorable

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watch see out goes this

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in goes

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step one is to give everything the old safe shot down i always do this i turned

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off the desktops already so now i've got

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to issue the shutdown command to my unread server here from my phone but

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we're good system is powered off just as i released that screw i realized

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something this server is

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not mounted on rails it's just sitting on top of the ups's i better pull that

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out first i do have rails for it i just never installed them oh wow you can see

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i was using the top panel of this case

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as a filming plan at some point that would

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have been a while ago looks like because it's fiberglass so the strands

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are quite long compared to regular dust we actually ended up with almost nothing

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inside the system itself so the specs of this server are

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kind of unusual um i've got a 9900k processor in here

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and the reason for that is i ran into this weird issue where plex if you want

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to transcode a 4k

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blu-ray and also have subtitles baked into it it's like a single threaded task

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that's super inefficient like 32 gigs of RAM i've got a graphics card in here for

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GPU decoding a couple of uh hbas to power the drives here i think it's

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around 150 terabytes total storage a couple cash drives and finally a 10

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gigabit nick from a quantia and ah

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a redundant power supply just in case one of these modules fails all i need to

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do then is just clean off these drive caddies and oh

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that's interesting so it's only the ones that don't have drives in them that have

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a bunch of build up that makes sense since those are the ones that are going to be getting the most air flowing

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through them something i do have an extra of in case of failure is a hard

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drive so this is a cold spare and the key night among you might have noticed

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that i'm using seagate archive drives which use shingled magnetic recording

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now it's cheaper and more efficient use of the platter but it has a right speed

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penalty and as you might have noticed in wd's recent scandal where they were

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shipping wd red shingled magnetic recording drives without telling anybody

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they are not ideal for raid but don't worry for my use case it's fine because

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i'm not using raid i'm using unraid which has parody and

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data redundancy but it does not use stripes across the

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various disks so that means that i'm all good with these i get around 220

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megabytes a second writing to the array and then a little faster reading off it

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ah i'm sorry

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oh shoot well

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it's good for finding your keys when they're missing lttstore.com i used

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tennis balls to hold up the ups is at the back i had

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to find the right number of tennis balls to support them

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the answer is five it's not stupid if it works flat

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Ethernet cables these have a terrible reputation

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with that said all i was using it for was like my sonos hub thing so

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new rule any cable that i don't know where it goes i'm not going to plug it

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in anymore at least two of these i have no idea what they're for

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also gross deadbeat

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i'm actually going to be adding some stuff to the server cabinet

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oh some new switching gear from ubiquity

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and that kind of stuff so i want to move it up so i can salvage two more u's

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of space this thing really is awesome you see you can adjust the length

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this is the first connection that i can make here so we're going into one of the

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non-power over Ethernet ports because it doesn't have to deliver power to my

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other switch obviously just the two ubiquity units so a router and a switch

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and then we've got these three u's that we could theoretically move these up

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into i'm going to leave mine on top because i quite frequently end up well

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like plugging optical drives into it and stuff so that's just going to stay are

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these cat footprints for those who are wondering i'm rocking

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a 3900 x 12 core processor i've got a

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titan rtx over there and then i've got this

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weirdo Gigabyte i think it's a one terabyte NVMe SSD in the pci express

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slot down here i'm running some super old 64 gigs ddr4 2666 RAM

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not a great pairing for that processor i know and then i'm still using the ax

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1500i this thing is going strong from the original build as well as this like

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super cool custom reservoir d5 pump and then of course the x570 aqua from asrock

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it's one of the few motherboards on the AMD side that supports Thunderbolt which

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is really nice to have if you can run a Thunderbolt cable through the wall use a

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Thunderbolt dock you've got 40 gigabit per second of io for all your you know

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capture cards and all that kind of stuff that i use over there

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Yvonne's rig doesn't really need to be touched it's a 60-second it looks

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terrible what compared to yours well it doesn't have water cooling it doesn't

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need water cooling it's messy

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there let me tuck that there

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you know we can well we'll clean the filter all

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right you weren't even going to clean my filter well yeah i was going to clean

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your filter clearly doesn't get cleaned as often

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it's fine as it is anyway 6700k i think it's got 16 gigs of RAM

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you know uh you got my old titan x pascal lots of people would give their

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left nut for a system like this so

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i expect a left nut from you in the mail just don't tell me where you got it i

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got to put both systems forward in order to put your uh

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mounting hardware in and that means basically all the weight is hanging off

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the front of this thing right now because it's empty

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oh hey that's not that hey the printer saved the day after a recent experience

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losing a ups at the office i just thought you know like why cheap

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out on this so i splurged and picked up two

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of these apc 1500 volt amp units here

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when i was mapping out all of my circuits at my house recently what i

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realized is that this room and everything in it is on a shared circuit

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with a whole bunch of other lights and outlets in my house so what i'm planning

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to do is have brian the electrician come up here and we're going to put a

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dedicated circuit in there for that gear meaning that it would be nice to have a

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little bit more capacity because when that happens i'd also like to go back to

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my plan of having the vr gaming rig

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that's down in the living room actually relocated up here so we can do like a

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super clean setup down there

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that is terrific no more tennis balls for me

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thanks apc help i'm stuck under a server

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oh

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okay now i get to attach these systems

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properly for the first time ever how fun

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is that i always like to get power cable management out of the way first they're

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just kind of bulky and it's nice to not have to deal with them when you're trying to do the finer stuff route both

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of the gaming desktops to the top ups

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and the server to the bottom one that means that the gaming desktops won't

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last as long in the event of a power outage but they're just quite frankly

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not as important this gives me a lot more time to react and get the server

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shut down correctly i know i said i was going to do everything really properly

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but if you think about it hot gluing a power bar to the inside of

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your server rack isn't really not properly like it's

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i'm pretty sure that's generally accepted best practice

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material right there one aspect of the cable management that i can't fix by

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tidying up the rack here is the fiber connection that comes in

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from my garage and the DisplayPort and optical usb connections that go out to

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the room over there so i made a new hole but i'm gonna have to run those again

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because right now ever since colin set it up they've just been coming in

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through this opening and i haven't been able to close it and the cat keeps going out there it's a real pain in the butt

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here's the other side of that hole i totally nailed lining it up now we make

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a new more bigger hole well it's hardly perfect but it is

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literally in the attic so i'm not going to stress about it too much the good

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news is it's a lot cleaner on this side so i'm just going to install one of those

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little like brush things here and then we're going to be good to go that is a lot

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better small update i am

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not bothering with the custom cables for everything

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it is three in the morning

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one thing that i'm not gonna cable manage properly is this ASUS router just

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because it's going to get replaced so i'm just going to plunk it right there but i mean it's all still

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looking you know pretty good from the front here i think we are ready

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for the big test go.com

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i'm on wi-fi see if the computers work

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oh well that's simple mine's up linustechtip.com form yes

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okay and then yours we're good keyboard working yes man i am just so

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stoked with how this turned out check this out

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magnet mounted dust filter

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oh yeah it's gonna stay tidy this time ladies

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and gentlemen of course managing your hardware is just

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half the battle and that's where today's sponsor pulseway comes in pulseway is a

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anywhere so i signed up for their free account which allows you up to two

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systems for my home closet here and it means that i can just log in from

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anywhere on my phone or from a computer and see things like available memory

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processes that are running i can open up a terminal and execute commands and i

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can even run automation scripts it's pretty freaking sick and if you get into

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their more advanced tiers man you can do some amazing stuff we're talking full

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remote desktop access and this really cool new feature called auto remediation

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where you can basically set up workflows that will fix problems for you on their

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own so you can have something like actually we had an issue that this would

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have been perfect for a couple of years ago where the dropbox service kept

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randomly stopping on one of our servers that we needed to synchronize all of the

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scripts that we put on our teleprompter so with pulseways autoremediation you

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could just say hey if this service stops restart the service and hey fire off an

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email over to us so that we can keep an eye on how often this bloody thing is

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failing it's super cool don't take my word for it though try it out today for

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pulseway and Corsair to give away a pretty sick working from home slash

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gaming rig it's a Corsair i-140 with a core i7 9700k and NVIDIA rtx 2080 we'll

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have those full details down below as well thanks for watching guys if you

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enjoyed this video you might enjoy a recent one where Anthony and i made some

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upgrades to our server room at the office it's definitely worth a watch