Category Archives: Technical

Another Dymo Printer

Posted on March 3, 2026 by larry

I purchased another label printer today, found one online for pretty cheap around $30, normally they would be $120. I think it is missing a spool and a power cable. I think I already have a spare power cable and … Continue reading →

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Looking for Quality Labels

Posted on March 2, 2026 by larry

Getting fed up with bad printing on my Dymo LabelWriter Twin Turbo, but the sides of the current batch I purchased are burnt. I had to enhance the picture a bit to emphasize the side burn in. May have gotten … Continue reading →

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Simple Move Took Longer

Posted on March 1, 2026 by larry

Was supposed to move some parts of a server from one case to another. Took longer than expected. Some hard drives have a 3v pin that it detects and doesn’t power on. Drove me nuts trying to fix that. The … Continue reading →

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Highschool Mentorship

Posted on February 24, 2026 by larry

Today as part of my work duties I went to school to offer mentorship to some students interested in tech. The place we went to was called the Puget Sound Skills Center. Kids there were interested in tech and one … Continue reading →

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Lab Startup and Shutdown Steps

Posted on February 23, 2026 by larry

Making use of lab but it does not need to be on all the time. So I figured out how to power on things, I can probably script it all, but I want to make sure things are started in … Continue reading →

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Ansible Presentation Tomorrow

Posted on February 22, 2026 by larry

Got a quick presentation tomorrow that requires a heck of a lot of preparation. It is late, past 10:30PM and I got most stuff done, but got a bit more to go. One hurdle is missing notes on how I … Continue reading →

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The Right Tool

Posted on February 21, 2026 by larry

Purchased this to remove pins last year, to assist in pin removals. It sucked!!! Got 1 pin removed with great difficulty Maybe I did it wrong, I think may have been a knock off, but later paid twice that Today … Continue reading →

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Sysprep Done Using Ansible

Posted on February 19, 2026 by larry

I got sysprep working at a minimal level the way I want. I now have a base windows 11 image I can use to rebuild a box relatively quickly. After a reboot I rename it and add it to the … Continue reading →

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Managing Windows With Ansible

Posted on February 18, 2026 by larry

Spun up a couple of cloned Windows 11 VMs and used sysprep on them Would like to streamline the sysprep process, so may work on creating a sysprep file. That is later though, meanwhile I got 3 windows boxes I … Continue reading →

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Ran Out of Time

Posted on February 16, 2026 by larry

Wow, didn’t think I would run out of time on a 4 day weekend, yet here I am. I woke up later, but not really late today. Let’s see what I did I dont think I will be going to … Continue reading →

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