November 2022 | Walter's Little World

SpaceX is churning out a Raptor per day now

November 3, 2022November 3, 2022 by Walter Stovall

There’s more to a rocket than an engine, but a rocket without an engine is not a rocket. SpaceX is passing an important milestone by producing a fully assembled Raptor engine per day. The Raptor is key to building the SharShip rocket that NASA has contracted with SpaceX to build as part of the Artimis … Read more

The Security and Redundancy of Clustered Virtual Machines

November 2, 2022November 1, 2022 by Walter Stovall

This post explores some techniques I’ve been using to improve the security of some services on my home network and make it easier to recover them in the event of hardware/other disasters. Below, I’ll describe how and why I’m moving more and more services onto virtual machines (VM). This is better for security because you … Read more