Category Archives: Technical

Focus On Arduino

Posted on October 29, 2014 by larry

Today I am going to stop messing with my network.  Tomorrow I will focus on arduino and getting my next KCLS presentation ready. Just did some pushups and situps.  Network certainly not stable yet.

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Major Network Upgrades

Posted on October 27, 2014 by larry

Finally got a huge chunk of my network done, even one of the main firewalls is up. Still need to test though, hope it works, nmap shows the right ports open, so it is promising. Just doing pushups and situps. … Continue reading →

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Upgrading and Decomm

Posted on October 26, 2014 by larry

Spent a lot of the weekend upgrading and decommissioning some of my servers. Looking good, got notes on rebuilding most of the new servers. Hoping the servers will be good in a week. Just doing pushup and situps.

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Weird Storm Day

Posted on October 25, 2014 by larry

Didn’t know it was gonna be a windy day, weather is going nuts. Wife and I decided to go to the movies and the power flickered in couple of the theaters and we decided to get a refund and return … Continue reading →

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Failed Domain Controller

Posted on October 24, 2014 by larry

Wow, got close to losing my active directory domain today, got real close. Main main AD server went down but luckily the mirror had all of the  FSMO roles. Building a new AD server now before anything else bad happens. … Continue reading →

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Web Server Stable

Posted on October 23, 2014 by larry

My web server seems stable now, I am thinking of moving the MySQL server next. Today I got the rails I need for my rack, while I was getting the rails, I saw a nice rack that was just too … Continue reading →

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Moving Web Server

Posted on October 22, 2014 by larry

Finally getting this web server (that hosts this very page you are on) moved to a new server. Should be faster.  So much more to do though.  Neverending. Also went to see sleep doctor today, she said I need to … Continue reading →

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Planning New Network

Posted on October 21, 2014 by larry

Slowly getting my ideas together for how the new network at home is going to look like. I want to reduce my physical prod server count to 8, in the server room.  Currenty I have 9.  If I can get … Continue reading →

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Kickstarting A Mysql Server

Posted on October 20, 2014 by larry

Trying to get a build process for my SQL server. I think I got 90% of the process automated. Still want to do the IP address manually and import data in manually. I think this will be faster then restoring … Continue reading →

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New Esxi Server

Posted on October 17, 2014 by larry

It is so cool, works really really well. It is a generic model I found to take the place of a server that crashed in the past. Just doing pushups and situps though.

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