Category Archives: Technical

Energy Back, Maybe

Posted on July 9, 2025 by larry

Seems like swimming gives me some sort of energy boost. I just got done, I am all clean haven’t eaten dinner yet. Most of the day I was sluggish, doing better now. Also when I got out of the car … Continue reading →

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10″ Rack Here And Started

Posted on July 8, 2025 by larry

Got my 10 inch rack today, I wish I waited for from day, but the prime day one was not the color I wanted so I will keep this one. I also ordered some from prime day not sure if … Continue reading →

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Zoneminder Really Needs RAM

Posted on July 7, 2025 by larry

Much more RAM, OOM is doing its job Currently has 32GB of RAM, needs more, also need to tweak my settings maybe to use less RAM. I do have another 32GB on the way. Another thing that breaks is my … Continue reading →

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New R9 Zoneminder Up

Posted on July 6, 2025 by larry

Finally got zoneminder on Rocky 9. The CentOS 7 instance built in Q1 2021 needs some rest. Prior to that was Zoneminder built in August 2017, and the first instance of that was way back on a Pentium 4 CentOS … Continue reading →

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Another Weekend

Posted on July 3, 2025 by larry

So glad I only had two days of work this week, I am in need of a break. Did work today, but I got my 10k steps as well. I am exhausted though, did clean up my kickstart media. Had … Continue reading →

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Getaway 2025 Trip Recap

Posted on July 2, 2025 by larry

Back home back to work, time for a bit of recap. The trip was a long one, about a 2 1/2 hour drive with a break. We did get a bit of shopping on the way there at the Centralia … Continue reading →

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Kickstarts Built

Posted on June 27, 2025 by larry

I got all my public kickstarts done. Going through testing now. There is some weirdness where I have to shutdown the box and remove the boot media. Going to try with other hardware, not sure what is going on, maybe … Continue reading →

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Rocky 9 Public Kickstarts

Posted on June 26, 2025 by larry

I been randomly building stuff to get my new lab up, I realize that I have to setup a kickstart that I can give to the public. I have settled on 3 different kickstarts with a version for UEFI and … Continue reading →

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Lab Slowly Coming Back

Posted on June 25, 2025 by larry

I am slowly setting up my demo lab. First thing I needed to do was get the old lab set up so I can extract the data I need to rebuild it. Then I been digging up ISO I needed … Continue reading →

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DIY Rack Upgrades

Posted on June 22, 2025 by larry

It has been over a decade since I originally built this rack. Original Rack I should have thrown this out a couple years later when I got a real rack. But there were couple upgrades done that kept the server. … Continue reading →

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