Category Archives: Technical

Better PC For Testing

Posted on February 16, 2019 by larry

Got a cheap new PC for testing. Cheaper than two Raspberry Pi’s. Also low power. Kind of cool, got Windows 10 installed on it. Will do a more in depth post on it with pics, but it is a HP … Continue reading →

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Roads Getting Better

Posted on February 14, 2019 by larry

Just our street sucks, less than 100 yards to good road. Still too much for one person to shovel. At least both cars can get out without chains. Daughter and I were shoveling snow late at night though, nice large … Continue reading →

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USB UEFI Boot

Posted on February 11, 2019 by larry

Got my USB Flash Boot Disk really working now. Got both BIOS And UEFI, but it does not look as nice Will do some more testing and some customization.

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Building USB for ESXi

Posted on February 8, 2019 by larry

One of the things I want to do is build ESXi on a USB flash disk. A quick way is to build it via vmware workstation, then boot it on the physical box. After it is on the physical box, … Continue reading →

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Back To Build Automation

Posted on February 6, 2019 by larry

Back to work, trying to get my automation stuff going. Got the system to build, but now trying to go through and get drupal running. So much things, not sure how much I can automate.

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Sinkhole Network

Posted on January 27, 2019 by larry

Going through an exercise to create a network that forces you to specific server and control the DNS entries. I could have done this easily with CentOS but my idea was the change this to a raspberry Pi.

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Too Many Machines

Posted on January 25, 2019 by larry

Yesterday I was chatting with my friend Rob. We are collaborating on a chef project and the conversation came on how many machines we have running. He said he had maybe three or four machines, I have maybe a dozen … Continue reading →

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Cool Password Check Tool

Posted on January 23, 2019 by larry

I wanted to check my passwords to see if they were compromised but really didn’t feel safe having a third party check them. https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords Luckily they provide a large 10Gb file with hashed SHA1 passwords. I can simply run echo … Continue reading →

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Canon Scanner Issue

Posted on January 22, 2019 by larry

Been struggling with my scanner since I upgraded the OS share where it stores files from CentOS 6 to 7. After messing around with two servers, I am thinking it is an OS issue, not a configuration issue. I am … Continue reading →

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It was the package!!

Posted on January 20, 2019 by larry

I was struggling mightily trying to get CentOS LDAP to work. Actually non tls connections was pretty easy, but I could not get it with normal TLS. It ended up being bugging software package, not my steps.

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