Category Archives: Technical

Getting Ready For 2019

Posted on December 7, 2018 by larry

Today I started forecasting 2019, and I like 2018, I think that 2018 can be a great year. Financially, things are smooth, there were very little worries in 2018. Healthwise, I went on Keto in 2018, not time to lose … Continue reading →

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FLIRC Working Well

Posted on December 5, 2018 by larry

Got the FLIRC working on another PC today.  Works well, finally can view VLC and youtube and use an IR remote. Kind of fun working with it. Been working a bit, kind of tired though. Quick pushups and situps and … Continue reading →

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Wish I purchased more

Posted on December 4, 2018 by larry

Here is another product I would recommend, the FLIRC It is one extremely nifty piece of tech.  Like the ordoid go, wemos d1 mini, and Silicon Dust, I would recommend this. Now what is it?  This is simple device you … Continue reading →

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Firewall Built

Posted on December 1, 2018 by larry

OK I have the new pfsense firewall build on pfsense running on it. But now comes the hard part, getting all of the rules in to the new server. This will take a while. Also found two dell monitors.  But … Continue reading →

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Adding Plex To New Server

Posted on November 30, 2018 by larry

Been frustrating trying to get plex working within a VM.  Also the physical plex server I have now does not seem to have enough CPU. So I am going to add the plex server to my new production host. It … Continue reading →

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New Server In Production

Posted on November 29, 2018 by larry

I finally got the physical box in to production.  It is a beast. May be overkill. But it is currently serving up what it is supposed to do. Also adding it as a plex server soon. Feeling cool. Next step … Continue reading →

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Starting Production Build

Posted on November 28, 2018 by larry

Starting my production build of a critical server I have. This will be the last of this years CentOS 7 upgrades. This is a a physical box, there is no snapshots, no export to ovf., so I need to document … Continue reading →

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New HP Server

Posted on November 27, 2018 by larry

Got a new HP server setup and coming online. Its actually a workstation class machine, but will be using it as a server. Got it on sale for 20% off so this one cost me about 160+tax Did not come … Continue reading →

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ESP8266 XMas Light v2

Posted on November 26, 2018 by larry

On November 27, 2017 of last year I posted that I was able to turn on the lights on and off using an ESP8266 XMas Lights and ESP8266 I took that same setup and upgraded it. Newer MQTT Code Better … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving Weekend Over

Posted on November 25, 2018 by larry

What a wild week, from a funeral, to Thanksgiving, Black Friday and some others events. Inside our home we have the tree and some other things lit up. Outside it is lit, but we will probably add more. New TV … Continue reading →

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