Category Archives: Technical

Daylight Savings 2020

Posted on March 8, 2020 by larry

Today was the start of daylight savings. It was the spring forward of 2020. Nice having a later sunset. Looks like my server consolidation project is delayed. In order to get full cut over, I need to get two more … Continue reading →

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Home Server Uses

Posted on March 6, 2020 by larry

Been doing some quick research and it seems that there are two types of people that run home servers. The first is what I thought was the highest use case, home automation. Apparently there is a huge home media group … Continue reading →

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Western Digital My Passport

Posted on March 3, 2020 by larry

So last week on Amazon there was a sale for this 5 TB Western Digital Drive for $99.99 plus tax. I purchased this primarily to backup files and bring them to work. Having 5TB in a small package seemed cool. … Continue reading →

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Backing Up Linux Machines

Posted on February 29, 2020 by larry

I figured out how to backup a bunch of my Linux machines, the OS, not the entire VM, nor the data. I am getting better at scripting, but some stuff not working. Also documenting the install of pihole, I have … Continue reading →

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Graphing Disk Storage

Posted on February 25, 2020 by larry

Trying to put together a simple script that will get disk space for a linux box and graph the space. I am using rrdtools for the graph and snmpwalk for the data. Need to figure a good way to parse … Continue reading →

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Interesting Meetup Today

Posted on February 24, 2020 by larry

Normally we talk about Arduino, LEDs and Raspberry Pis’ Today we talked about machine learning and bugs. We want to watch a bee have (Mason Bees) and differentiate between it and a pest called Houdini Fly. It lays its eggs … Continue reading →

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Mass CostCo Shopping

Posted on February 23, 2020 by larry

One pretty big day at CostCo. Our annual “Bonus” “Cash Back” “Refund” check came in and it was over $500.00 It was nice, hopefully we can make those groceries last. Also finally cleaned up an error I been having on … Continue reading →

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New Small Desktop

Posted on February 22, 2020 by larry

Second smallest non-pi x86 based desktop I have (the Brix is the smallest). Will post more about it, but looks pretty cool. Fast and runs CentOS 7 too. Weight: 308.2

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New File Server In Production

Posted on February 21, 2020 by larry

Where have I heard that before? So yes, server is up and running and doing OK. This one is a really critical one, does DNS, DHCP, kickstart, home directories. This is the first server that comes up when the house … Continue reading →

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Disappointed With File Server Performance

Posted on February 20, 2020 by larry

Just ran some numbers on my new file server, not much of a jump in performance This is the Old Server Running warmup… Running a 400MB file write on 5 times… Iteration 1: 95.27 MB/sec Iteration 2: 72.43 MB/sec Iteration … Continue reading →

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