GEEKFORCE.COM

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If you are just joining us, welcome!
Since we seem to be spending more time at home, some resources were directed to upgrade the homelab, with the goal of separating the compute and storage nodes.
Last month we noodled about with dietPi, carving up lots of little virtual machines, each doing one or two things. After we setup a pihole for network ad blocking, next up was a Ubooquity server for books and comics.
A while back we were hammering on some pretty decent WAPs that were generously provided by the kind folks at Ruckus. Their Cloud-WiFi product, (which is a subscription add on) is really impressive. Researching how to setup a captive portal to give the neighborhood a taste of the sweet fiber goodness that we enjoy here at GFWHQ.
Other projects include researching how to get LanSweeper to recognize all of the individual VMs running under ProxMox, which seems to be solved by a complete reinstall. We were invited to see the upcoming Enterprise version of LanSweeper. Very impressive bit of kit there, highly recommended.
We have started to document the homelab. You know you want to see what is growing in our basement workshop.
If you care, the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive has a few historical scrapes.

We feel that it may be prurient at this point to add some background information about the geeks behind the Geekforce:
Way back in 1995, Dave, Ian, and Monty were all kicking around in St. Louis, Missouri. Dave worked at an ISP, Ian was working at an advertising agency, and Monty was doing creative packaging. They all got bit by the Internet bug and threw a site up. The site was served out of Dave's user directory, and in what was a portent of things to come, all three quickly forgot about it and moved on to other things.
To everyone's surprise, the original GeekForce site was chosen as the Geek Site of the Day on about midnight (or so), September 14th, 1995. The only thing working in our favor was that the web was a much, much, smaller pond at the time, so it was easier to get noticed.

Monty made this banner, ripping off DEVO in a failed attempt at trolling them for our benefit and publicity. We ripped off their power dome hats as well. Shameless. We had this banner on the homepage for about 2 years, and never heard a peep from DEVO.

Monty was always good for cranking out interesting graphics.

This is what was up for a while in 1999.

This is a very old header image, it's all of 12kb. Dialup used to be a thing, kids.

Why did we do this?
We are here to do research and play with cool stuff.
Increasingly of late, hardware and software companies will give us stuff to review, play with, or test for them.

We had great plans to make our millions "from the web", whatever that meant. None of them ever planned out,
yet the website and the domain persist. Every few years someone contacts us to see if we will sell the domain.
The answer is usually no, unless you have a giant bucket of money for us.