Category Archives: Technical

Extending Grafana

Posted on November 10, 2020 by larry

Trying to get grafana to display logs. Each day I am getting more adept with grafana. Right now trying to figure out loki and its logging. Weight: 319.2

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Biden Wins

Posted on November 7, 2020 by larry

Interesting day in politics, it was announced that Joe Biden won the Presidential election. Trump is not done yet, he is going to keep this going with some lawsuits. But at least most of the world sees a change. On … Continue reading →

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Scripting AWS Builds

Posted on November 6, 2020 by larry

Cool project at work, there are some kids that we would like to provide some guidance. One of the things was a wordpress server and a minecraft server. I may need 25 of them at one time, so I scripted … Continue reading →

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Still Counting Votes

Posted on November 5, 2020 by larry

Election not done yet. Still being tallied, although there is a lot of news about it. Seems like every little change in count has been reported. Certainly exciting. In other news, the Ryzen 5000 series came out, I feel like … Continue reading →

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Halloween 2020

Posted on November 1, 2020 by larry

Ok technically it was yesterday, but waited the whole night and it was the first time I can remember we had zero trick or treaters. But couple other things happened today Daylight standard, fall back, whatever you call it. So … Continue reading →

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Monitoring Lab Network

Posted on October 31, 2020 by larry

Getting my network squared away. I want to get Grafana working and logging. First cleaning up network, then got a bunch of stuff monitored in nagios. We’ll see if I can get some next gen monitoring going. Weight: 317.8

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Pushing My New Computer

Posted on October 30, 2020 by larry

I finally got to editing a large file, when I rendered it it really pushed the CPU Pretty sweet, I think I tried editing this file prior, could not do it with my old machine. It is a simple 7.5 … Continue reading →

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Verdict Still Out On Computer

Posted on October 28, 2020 by larry

But it does look very promising. Here is the final cost No Description Qty  Amount  1 AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor 1       429.99 2 Corsair H60 (2018) 57.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler 1          79.99 3 … Continue reading →

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Filled My Ballot

Posted on October 27, 2020 by larry

Can’t say I voted till I deposit my ballot, but I did fill it out 100%. Going to be an interesting week. Also lab coming together. Now to get all the monitoring and cleanup. Weight: 317.6

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Domain Controllers Upgraded

Posted on October 26, 2020 by larry

My lab now has up to date domain controllers. Need to clean up some of the older entries in both AD and DNS though. Feels good getting stuff done. Did run RTC today. Weight: 317.8

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