To change a network - It’s just a foot gun drop down, how hard can it be?

story time

In testing the VMware to Vates (V2V) machinery in XCP-ng with Xen Orchestra, I found that the imports were taking longer than I had expected or hoped. In searching the web for others with similar experiences, I found a forum thread where someone highlighted that traffic for the import goes from your ESXi host, through Xen Orchestra, then to your XCP-ng host & relevant Storage Repository. In order to set this process up for success, you’ll want to have maximum performance available for all network paths involved.

To change a network - It’s just a foot gun drop down, how hard can it be?

story time

In testing the VMware to Vates (V2V) machinery in XCP-ng with Xen Orchestra, I found that the imports were taking longer than I had expected or hoped. In searching the web for others with similar experiences, I found a forum thread where someone highlighted that traffic for the import goes from your ESXi host, through Xen Orchestra, then to your XCP-ng host & relevant Storage Repository. In order to set this process up for success, you’ll want to have maximum performance available for all network paths involved.

Background

Whisper for Audio Transcription

Whisper by OpenAI is a phenomenal audio to text transcription engine. The default output formats (TXT, SRT, VTT) are great for immediate use, but you can also integrate the whisper library into custom Python.

Jupiter Broadcasting

made with Stable Diffusion

Jupiter Broadcasting is a podcast network rich in Linux related content.

Bringing it together

A problem with podcasts and likely more so Technology podcasts is that some great content gets covered in the shows, but the discoverability of these topics is often limited to some show notes, or the occasional annotated timeline. From a producer standpoint, this means that once your show airs and enters the back catalog, its recurring contribution to the show drastically fades be it directly financial from consumer ad impressions, or for reference or re-use in future shows. From a consumer standpoint, if you’re a regular listener, you may be able to keep track of how long ago you heard a topic that interests you. However, if a new interest pops up that you know was covered, then you’ll have limited metadata to help your search.

Background

Whisper for Audio Transcription

Whisper by OpenAI is a phenomenal audio to text transcription engine. The default output formats (TXT, SRT, VTT) are great for immediate use, but you can also integrate the whisper library into custom Python.

Jupiter Broadcasting

made with Stable Diffusion

Jupiter Broadcasting is a podcast network rich in Linux related content.

Bringing it together

A problem with podcasts and likely more so Technology podcasts is that some great content gets covered in the shows, but the discoverability of these topics is often limited to some show notes, or the occasional annotated timeline. From a producer standpoint, this means that once your show airs and enters the back catalog, its recurring contribution to the show drastically fades be it directly financial from consumer ad impressions, or for reference or re-use in future shows. From a consumer standpoint, if you’re a regular listener, you may be able to keep track of how long ago you heard a topic that interests you. However, if a new interest pops up that you know was covered, then you’ll have limited metadata to help your search.

Story Time!

So this trip down the retro rabbit hole takes us back to 1996’ish. Quake has been released and proceeded to consume unknown countless hours of my CPU and GPU cycles.

The Quake Shareware CD-ROM was interesting in that in addition to the shareware/demo release, it included the full version of the game in addition to the rest of ID’s catalog at the time. Another feature of the Quake CD (like many 90’s games) is that they were pressed as mix-mode CDs and supplied the soundtrack through traditional CD audio encoding as which you could play through your traditional Audio CD player. The soundtrack, and I believe sound effects, were created by Trent Reznor & Nine Inch Nails.

Story Time!

So this trip down the retro rabbit hole takes us back to 1996’ish. Quake has been released and proceeded to consume unknown countless hours of my CPU and GPU cycles.

The Quake Shareware CD-ROM was interesting in that in addition to the shareware/demo release, it included the full version of the game in addition to the rest of ID’s catalog at the time. Another feature of the Quake CD (like many 90’s games) is that they were pressed as mix-mode CDs and supplied the soundtrack through traditional CD audio encoding as which you could play through your traditional Audio CD player. The soundtrack, and I believe sound effects, were created by Trent Reznor & Nine Inch Nails.

Story Time!

So this trip down the retro rabbit hole takes us back to 1996’ish. Quake has been released and proceeded to consume unknown countless hours of my CPU and GPU cycles.

The Quake Shareware CD-ROM was interesting in that in addition to the shareware/demo release, it included the full version of the game in addition to the rest of ID’s catalog at the time. Another feature of the Quake CD (like many 90’s games) is that they were pressed as mix-mode CDs and supplied the soundtrack through traditional CD audio encoding as which you could play through your traditional Audio CD player. The soundtrack, and I believe sound effects, were created by Trent Reznor & Nine Inch Nails.

First!

So, I’ve decided to add another one of “these” to the internet. I’m figuring that my adventures in IT may have a chance of helping someone out who encounters the same or similar problems, or maybe I’ll post a project or three.

First!

So, I’ve decided to add another one of “these” to the internet. I’m figuring that my adventures in IT may have a chance of helping someone out who encounters the same or similar problems, or maybe I’ll post a project or three.