Category Archives: Technical

Black Friday 2018

Posted on November 23, 2018 by larry

Spend a LOT of time shopping today. Got a new Samsung TV, three desktops (going through them now) A whole mess load of things from Fry’s like hard drives, UPS, gimble, power pack. Just want to get a post before … Continue reading →

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Close To Finishing Upgrades

Posted on November 20, 2018 by larry

As of right now, there are three VMs and one physical box that needs to be upgraded. Technically, one of those three VMs has a replacement, another one I am currently in the process of building, and finally a 3rd … Continue reading →

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Writing Off November

Posted on November 18, 2018 by larry

I have accepted the fact that I am not going to get any meaningful exercise, health progress during November. The consolation is that I am almost done with my server upgrades, I am absolutely on track to finish the virtual … Continue reading →

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Family Tree Update

Posted on November 17, 2018 by larry

Today the family gathered together for a prayer for my Aunt. I was reminded how many Apolonio’s there are. It was a good time to update the family tree.  Got to admit, there were quite a bit of updates to … Continue reading →

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Server Upgrades Getting Tougher

Posted on November 14, 2018 by larry

Started on another server.  So close to getting it right. But once I started samba, it just broke. Hmm But as I post things started working. This box confuses me. Rough day, had a viewing for my recently deceased aunt. … Continue reading →

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So Close To Finishing

Posted on November 13, 2018 by larry

After another server upgrade today, I think feel like the end is so close. Tomorrow I want to go look at physical boxes for an upgrade to my last Linux box. Feeling beat up though.  Writing off November for  workouts.

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Upgrades A Two Thirds Done

Posted on November 12, 2018 by larry

I am actually more than two thirds done with my upgrade process.  I have 12 of 36 targeted machines left.    Of those 12, only about 5 have to be rebuilt and upgraded.  The other 7 are going through a … Continue reading →

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Tower to Desktop

Posted on November 10, 2018 by larry

Today my plex server from a tower PC to a desktop based PC. I was able to make use of a drive cage that took the space of 3 5 1/ 4 slots with 5 disks. There are also two … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS Was A Good Decision

Posted on November 7, 2018 by larry

The more I play with my FreeNAS server, the more comfortable I am with my decision. It seems like ZFS is a solid network file system.  Also the other protections like backups, ECC RAM, UPS.  Also this is not just … Continue reading →

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Odroid Go

Posted on November 4, 2018 by larry

My son and I worked on putting together a cool gaming gadget that emulates game devices like a Nintendo Gameboy. Its based on the ESP32 so I can probably flash Everything was included except the SD Card and games.  16GB … Continue reading →

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