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Upgrading RAM on the 1st Generation Apple TV

Posted on May 24, 2026June 19, 2026 by tommy

I watched a Youtube video by dosdude1 where he attempts to upgrade an Apple TV to 1GB of RAM from the factory 256MB. Although the Apple TV only managed to recognize 512MB, doubling the RAM is still impressive. I thought I’d upgrade my own Apple TV. Picking the RAM Module My Apple TV uses four…

Designing a 7-node Proxmox/Ceph cluster in Blender

Posted on July 25, 2023August 17, 2024 by tommy

I’ve been wanting to build a Proxmox cluster for a while — mainly to get a feel for Ceph storage. I’m firmly in the ZFS camp, but I do see the appeal of distributed storage paired with a high availability cluster. I plan on using this for my web development stack — LAMP, MEAN, etc…

Public Key Authentication with PuTTY

Posted on April 4, 2021August 29, 2021 by tommy

Public Key authentication is one of the safest ways to log into a server. Instead of using a plain text password, Public Key authentication uses a Public/Private key pair to identify authorized users. The target server stores the Public Key while the user holds the Private Key. Step 1: Generating Public / Private Keys with…