Developer Diary, Naadam

Mini-Server, Part 27 Entropy Arbitrage Scrawls Notoboto Library Updates Next While the date changes depending on exactly where one lives—by a lot, I mean, not the usual week or so that you’d expect from asymmetric calendar changes—Mongolia will wrap up their National Naadam (ᠨᠠᠭᠠᠳᠤᠮ) Festival today, featuring wrestling (Bökh/ᠪᠥᠬᠡ), horse racing, and archery. And with that, on to the week’s projects. Mini-Server, Part 27 I don’t know that anybody would care about this sort of detail but me, but for those who do, I managed a tiny step forward on that rogue server that collapses under load. The company apparently can’t trouble itself to produce documentation, but they do inexplicably record shoddy videos on disassembly. Once I landed on searching for removing the fan—not what I want to do, and I have no idea what would make that anybody’s target—I found a fairly thorough tear-down. I overlooked “grip the ports on one side of the motherboard and give it a yank” as a way to get at the…