Category Archives: Technical

New Drill and Impact Drill

Posted on August 4, 2020 by larry

Kind of surprised when I got an email from Amazon that my new Dewalt Drill set was available for pickup. There was a cheaper $149 MAX version but I got the highly rated MAX XR version of the drill and … Continue reading →

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Reorg of Room

Posted on July 31, 2020 by larry

Been spending a bunch of money lately trying to find the best way to organize myself. Today I installed another Netgear “Click” switch to replace an 8 port netgear and 8 port dlink. I accomplished three things Forced my to … Continue reading →

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Misc Happenings

Posted on July 30, 2020 by larry

Couple of random multiple notes Making a better effort to lose weight, actually had a protein shake for breakfast and sald for lunch. After I posted yesterday, I forgot to mention I had some minor blister on my foot. Even … Continue reading →

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Plex EPG Problems

Posted on July 28, 2020 by larry

Plex is supposed to fix my TV recording problems, Microsoft’s Windows Media Center was great, but it is no longer supported (at least on Windows 7) But once and a while the EPG fails Not sure why, but it does. … Continue reading →

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My Main Plex Server

Posted on July 26, 2020 by larry

Wanted to post how my Plex network at home is set up. Couple months ago I started building my new plex server, this will be the central media server on my network. Here are the specs CPU Intel Core i3-8100 … Continue reading →

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CentOS 8

Posted on July 23, 2020 by larry

Part of my new repository is CentOS 8 Looking at being able to build multiple OS’s and different distros. Maybe ubuntu and mint as well. Weight: 316.6

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TIFU

Posted on July 22, 2020 by larry

I got the scripts working and my own local yum repository going. Unfortunately I tested it out today, looks like it works, but man, what a mistake. I lot of services went down and did not come back up. Luckily … Continue reading →

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Local CentOS Repo

Posted on July 21, 2020 by larry

Today I am making the call to maintain a local CentOS repo. Will maintain CentOS 6, 7, and 8. The latest versions. As well as EPEL. Dunno what is going on with my weight. But today I walked around RTC, … Continue reading →

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Fixed My Domain Controller

Posted on July 19, 2020 by larry

Finally, used dism and sfc to fix a kind of corrupt OS. I was able to run a few commands to fix my Domain Controller. Wasn’t too worried though, I have multiple domain controllers. Update patches would not install. What … Continue reading →

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New Poe Camera

Posted on July 18, 2020 by larry

Finally got to test a real PoE security camera. Purchased it from Amazon, search for IP Security Camera 1080P, POE(Power Over Ethernet) Outdoor Surveillance Security Camera, Waterproof IP66 Infrared Night Vision 65FT Support ONVIF Got it for $36.00 and as … Continue reading →

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