Category Archives: Technical

Another Long Day

Posted on December 20, 2014 by larry

Fun but long day. Got some shopping done, and now at home building a gaming rig. Not sure why but the machine is not accepting my video card driver. I have enough wattage, but am a little bummed it is … Continue reading →

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Huge Mail Cutover

Posted on December 17, 2014 by larry

Did a big mail cutover today.  Went from my old CentOS 5 box to a CentOS 6 box.  I should be good till November 2020. Everything seems stable, I sent a few test emails. This server it is replacing is … Continue reading →

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Seahawks Sweep Niners

Posted on December 14, 2014 by larry

This was a meaningful game for me.  I was invited by my friends to join them in watching the game today, usually I stay home.  I went out this time (second time this year) and had a pretty good time. … Continue reading →

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Spread Out Day

Posted on December 13, 2014 by larry

This is the kind of day that has a pace that was weird. For one thing I went to bed late, about 2AM then woke up to the puppy barking wanting to go out at about 8AM. Then at 12 … Continue reading →

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Still in control

Posted on December 3, 2014 by larry

Busy busy day, but still hanging tough. There is certainly a lot of work, but I am dealing with it OK. Work just piles on, hope to get back to arduino in 2 weeks. And running For now pushups and … Continue reading →

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Getting Chef Working

Posted on November 29, 2014 by larry

One of the reasons why I went through all of these upgrades was to be able to quickly rebuild servers and re provision the services. I have most of my DMZ servers at CentOS 6 64bit (just 1 server is … Continue reading →

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Wrong Firewall Config

Posted on November 24, 2014 by larry

Some frustration was lifted today when I figured out what I was doing wrong with my new firewall. Apparently I got the subnet masks wron.  After correcting it I felt like I had some good performance. I have two 10/100 … Continue reading →

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Server Room 2014 is Done

Posted on November 23, 2014 by larry

Finally am done with my server room. Here is a panorama of my bench.  I normally don’t bring drinks in here so that coffee cup is normally not there. Still have some Linux Servers that are not virtualized.  Primarily due … Continue reading →

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Server Room So Close To Done

Posted on November 20, 2014 by larry

All the servers are in their place, just need to label things. Amazing how for this has gone.  One more day of organizing then I think I am done with the server room.  Little things like labels are time consuming … Continue reading →

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Continue Rebuilding My Servers

Posted on November 19, 2014 by larry

Brutal build process, I am struggling to get this new server up.  But this is one server is used to monitor all my other services. It runs nagios, mrtg, cacti and other stuff.  I think I may try to figure … Continue reading →

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