Finally, the separate box of POWER9 upgrades appears. These are for the dual socket 144 thread Talos II here at home (the LC-922 are in colo). Relocation has turned up a lot of missing hardware, very pleased about this turn of events.

So, the long lost box contains:
- 4x Samsung 883-DCT 2TB SSDs for local storage ZFS pool (with 2x Optane NVMe cache)
- 3x PM863a 240GB SSDs for the OS
- always more RAM
- an OcuLink 4x to U.2 cable w/ Optane drive floating around somewhere
- Mellanox 50GbE QSFP28 NIC for RDMA fun

@dexter finally, we can continue the project with appropriate hardware

#homelab #power9 #ibm #freebsd #goodmorning #unpacking #servers #hardware #happiness

Finally, the separate box of POWER9 upgrades appears. These are for the dual socket 144 thread Talos II here at home (the LC-922 are in colo). Relocation has turned up a lot of missing hardware, very pleased about this turn of events.

So, the long lost box contains:
- 4x Samsung 883-DCT 2TB SSDs for local storage ZFS pool (with 2x Optane NVMe cache)
- 3x PM863a 240GB SSDs for the OS
- always more RAM
- an OcuLink 4x to U.2 cable w/ Optane drive floating around somewhere
- Mellanox 50GbE QSFP28 NIC for RDMA fun

@dexter finally, we can continue the project with appropriate hardware

#homelab #power9 #ibm #freebsd #goodmorning #unpacking #servers #hardware #happiness

"If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up with Hill, who today runs his own firm, ThinkNext Design, to talk about the history of ThinkPad, what drove him to make key design decisions, and the products he wanted to come out with but just couldn't."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/

#Computers#Thinkpad#IBM#Lenovo#Keyboards#ComputerHistory

"If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up with Hill, who today runs his own firm, ThinkNext Design, to talk about the history of ThinkPad, what drove him to make key design decisions, and the products he wanted to come out with but just couldn't."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/

#Computers#Thinkpad#IBM#Lenovo#Keyboards#ComputerHistory

Great infographic of companies involved in the genocide of Palestinians. Taken from this article, which also has more information on each: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they

#politics #bigtech #degoogle #aljazeera #palestine #gaza #israel #genocide #lockheedmartin #ibm #microsoft #alphabet #google #amazon #palantir #chevron #cat #airbnb #volvo #bp

“Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.”

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/23/microsoft-hub-israeli-intel/

#microsoft #israel #genocide#ethnicCleansing #apartheid#settlerColonialism#BigTech #capitalism #fascism#IBM#Holocaust

Panel: Which global companies are complicit in genocide & profiting from occupation’ in Palestine?

"Francesca Albanese’s landmark report identified Microsoft, Amazon and Google as just some of the major United States tech firms helping Israel sustain its genocide in Gaza."

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story

#GazaGenocide#CorporateComplicity#USPol#EuroPol#IBM#Alphabet#Microsoft#BDS .

“Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.”

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/23/microsoft-hub-israeli-intel/

#microsoft #israel #genocide#ethnicCleansing #apartheid#settlerColonialism#BigTech #capitalism #fascism#IBM#Holocaust

Panel: Which global companies are complicit in genocide & profiting from occupation’ in Palestine?

"Francesca Albanese’s landmark report identified Microsoft, Amazon and Google as just some of the major United States tech firms helping Israel sustain its genocide in Gaza."

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story

#GazaGenocide#CorporateComplicity#USPol#EuroPol#IBM#Alphabet#Microsoft#BDS .

“International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.”

– Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust

The more things change…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691

#IBM#Holocaust#BigTech#SiliconValley#Google#Microsoft #israel #genocide #apartheid#settlerColonialism #capitalism #neoliberalism #complicityhttps://infosec.exchange/@onrust/114779288628253881

“International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.”

– Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust

The more things change…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691

#IBM#Holocaust#BigTech#SiliconValley#Google#Microsoft #israel #genocide #apartheid#settlerColonialism #capitalism #neoliberalism #complicityhttps://infosec.exchange/@onrust/114779288628253881

Great infographic of companies involved in the genocide of Palestinians. Taken from this article, which also has more information on each: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they

#politics #bigtech #degoogle #aljazeera #palestine #gaza #israel #genocide #lockheedmartin #ibm #microsoft #alphabet #google #amazon #palantir #chevron #cat #airbnb #volvo #bp

Left: OpenBMC interface w/ iKVM
Right: standard term via SSH to BMC and "obmc-console-client"

14.2 is installing now, no surprises. tomorrow, more fun!

#freebsd #talos #openbmc #power #openpower #ibm