Category Archives: Technical

Home Monitoring

Posted on March 20, 2019 by larry

Looking for a way to have a pi monitor the home via nagios and work without a network connection. Also would like it to monitor wifi, bluetooth and other things. Need to see if I can get a new SIM … Continue reading →

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Still in pain

Posted on March 18, 2019 by larry

My body is still sore, a little better, but called in sick to work, will probably call in sick again tomorrow. On the CentOS front I did it, this site is on PHP7 7.1 It was kind of hard technically … Continue reading →

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PHP On CentOS 7

Posted on March 17, 2019 by larry

There is too much going on when upgrading PHP on CentOS 7. I ended up rolling back and will look at building a new machine. Also not sure about my back, don’t know if it is more sore or not. … Continue reading →

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Being Schooled By My Youngest

Posted on March 14, 2019 by larry

My youngest son sure did show me couple things today regarding video editing. He does know his stuff. Feeling good with him helping me out with videos. Swam today, and also attended a track meet. Kind of beat.

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Another Elgato HD60

Posted on March 12, 2019 by larry

Recall a year ago I purchased this What a a purchase, today it was on sale on woot. Couldn’t resist. This card ROCKS.

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AWS Costs Piling Up

Posted on March 11, 2019 by larry

Need to review my AWS usage, I think I am piling them up too quick. There are a couple of them I can get rid of. Will look at them through the next few days.

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Screwy AWS Instance

Posted on March 10, 2019 by larry

Uploaded an custom instance on to AWS, didn’t look like i was working OK. Making some new images. Hoping it works. Spent most of day at mall… kind of not working on. Need to get on it.

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X2GO Performance

Posted on March 9, 2019 by larry

Wow, I am super impressed by X2ORG, I was able to create an instance on AWS and install MATE desktop and google. And I was able to run youtube relatively clean on it. With audio. And all through SSH.

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New Desktop Sharing

Posted on March 8, 2019 by larry

Trying to RDP in and get desktop sharing working. In the past I used vnc, it is insecure, well kind of secure if you use SSH, but then I discovered x2go. Seems like it should work. Weight: 284.8

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Getting Procedures To Add to Kickstart

Posted on March 6, 2019 by larry

I really should document this, but using yumdownloader, I can download what I need for a kickstart and keep it all contained on a USB flash drive. I did this foe nrpe, xrdp, google chrome, etc. Makes is all self … Continue reading →

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