Category Archives: Technical

Exhausting Drive To Canada

Posted on June 23, 2019 by larry

Long early drive to Canada and back. Yesterday put quite a bit of time on computers, still found a bit of time to log in remotely and continue the fix. Hopefully my plex media center will be back online in … Continue reading →

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This New Server Taking A Lot of Resources

Posted on June 22, 2019 by larry

By resources I do not mean CPU and RAM, but something more valuable, time and money. I am all in, and I want to see this server to completion, but man it is costing way more than the deal was … Continue reading →

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Working In My Lab

Posted on June 20, 2019 by larry

Spent a nice chunk of the day working in my lab. Most of it was on the new T410 server. But there were other things I worked on, backed up my little Windows server before making it a domain controller, … Continue reading →

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New Massive Server

Posted on June 19, 2019 by larry

I am going all in on a new server I purchased, a Dell T410 Server Initially I thought this was a great deal. In addition to it being cheap it was discounted by 30%. No drives of course, but then … Continue reading →

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Review For the EZ Outlet

Posted on June 18, 2019 by larry

Posted a review on the EZ Outlet device Hope it benefits someone out there. Did not proof it completely, but I did run it through Grammaly, aweseom little tool. If I do more posts, I think I will get the … Continue reading →

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New Smart Switches

Posted on June 16, 2019 by larry

My smart switches came in today The pair of TPlink ones were cheap, about $25 for two, the one on the right is a not so common one called an ezOutlet2 EZ-22b which is nearly three times the cost (6 … Continue reading →

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Minivan Brake and Wheel Maintenance

Posted on June 14, 2019 by larry

My buddy Rob helped me (ok he did all the work) today with my Odyssey mini-van. Brakes were kind of slipping at slow speeds. I diagnosed it correctly as a warped brake rotors. You can’t tell in this pic, but … Continue reading →

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Figuring Out Chef

Posted on June 4, 2019 by larry

My goal by the end of summer is to figure out chef and docker. If there is time, kubernetes. Anyway, I got the chef server installed and was able to push the client. Now I need to figure how to … Continue reading →

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Reducing Number Of Machines

Posted on May 24, 2019 by larry

I am still looking to reduce the number of servers on my network. Critical servers, so not counting desktops and media servers. Also I am planning my network around a single important Linux server, that has DHCP, DNS and other … Continue reading →

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Updating MediaWiki

Posted on May 22, 2019 by larry

What a pain but I was able to struggle through it. I was on CentOS 5 running some ancient version of Media Wiki (1.11 something) After a series of upgrades here and there, I was finally able to get it … Continue reading →

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