Category Archives: Technical

Amazon Instant Videos

Posted on January 25, 2013 by larry

I purchased some videos online from Amazon for the first time. Kind of cool, works for me.  If this is the future, I am OK with it as long as I can back it up and reinstall movies if needed. … Continue reading →

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Continue With New Building My Rig

Posted on January 24, 2013 by larry

I continue to build my replacement rig. Starting with what was going to go into my new ESXi Rig and AMD 6100 6 Core CPU with 16 GB DD3 1600 RAM   Add 2 that a 120GB SSD Hard Drive … Continue reading →

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Cheap HP WebCam

Posted on January 23, 2013 by larry

Fry’s had an awesome sale on HP Webcams. This is the HP 2200   Works with Linux and the quality is decent.  At $5.99 its a steal. I got 4 of em. In other news, my main PC died, I … Continue reading →

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Linux Clustering

Posted on January 17, 2013 by larry

Finally I grasp the details of clustering on Linux (for High Availability not High Performance). Last night I cranked through it and was able to figure out how to get HA working on CentOS 6.2 using corosync, and today I … Continue reading →

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Webcam of the Wyse

Posted on January 14, 2013 by larry

Finally got the webcam to work on the wyse S90. I am gonna let it run for couple days to see if it can last and not crash. Will document what I did after I post this blog. I did … Continue reading →

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Long Run On The Treadmill

Posted on January 12, 2013 by larry

I pushed it pretty good on the treadmill today,  this is my second long run Saturday of the year. Ran on the treadmill for an hour,  I tried to go fast, but my legs just not there yet.  I ran … Continue reading →

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Learning About VDI and Resource Management

Posted on January 10, 2013 by larry

Interesting day in the virtualization space, went to a workshop/seminar on vmware, specifically VDI and Resource Management. Some of it was a rehash, but learned some interesting new things like VMXNET may not be what we need. Got home late … Continue reading →

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Struggling On New Treadmill

Posted on January 9, 2013 by larry

Last time I ran for 18 minutes today I ran for 20 on the new treadmill, burned 304 calories which is not much over the last one of 299. Just need to punch through this slump, my body will get … Continue reading →

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Overheating Samsung Galaxy S3

Posted on January 8, 2013 by larry

Was supposed to go to gym early but when I grabbed my phone it was really hot. I think an app was running and chewing up the CPU cycles.  Not good, I suspect it was the app that communicated with … Continue reading →

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New Treadmill Is Here

Posted on January 7, 2013 by larry

Finally, I tried running on it today though, I felt really heavy and out of shape to run on it though.  Only burned 299 calories but I did go over a mile. I think lunch kind of weighed me down … Continue reading →

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