Category Archives: Technical

New Personal Laptop

Posted on October 2, 2024 by larry

My new (used) Dell Latitude 7490 arrived yesterday. Remember that Dell 7290? This one is a bigger brother. I will configure it like the other one, but this one will have a bigger hard drive, wanted a smaller 1080P model, … Continue reading →

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Another Power Outage

Posted on September 25, 2024 by larry

Not even a week and there was another power outage. My main file server is showing problems. Hoping it is just a race condition where it booted up before other services were available. One thing is clear, I need to … Continue reading →

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Working On A Saturday

Posted on August 24, 2024 by larry

Can’t say too much because of opsec (Operational Security) but we were hit with a cyber attack. It is fascinating what goes on inside of an organization fighting an attack. Unfortunately I can’t say much, also I need to go … Continue reading →

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Too Tired To Clean

Posted on August 12, 2024 by larry

A lot of things still need to be done in my office, but too much to do. Just got done at gym using weights On the tech front got a replacement MiFi. Brand is inseego No review yet. Weight coming … Continue reading →

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Bedroom Looks Great

Posted on August 10, 2024 by larry

Not done yet, need to put essential stuff in there, but it had the effect of cleaning out our bedroom and starting from a blank slate. The essential things are in there, now like the bed dresser and my desk. … Continue reading →

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Bad RAM in Desktop

Posted on July 29, 2024 by larry

Decided to tackle the problem with bad RAM on my PC Pulled RAM and tested what was left in there, 16GB It is enough for normal conditions but no VMs for me. I went and tested all the other modules … Continue reading →

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Getting an A in Mozilla Observatory

Posted on July 24, 2024 by larry

I been playing around with cloudflare, while doing so, I figured what I needed to do to get an A in mozilla observatory. HTTP Header Security Test – HTTP Observatory | MDN (mozilla.org) First time I got it, broke my … Continue reading →

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Got Prep Documents

Posted on July 23, 2024 by larry

One of the documents I want to make is the preparation document for a the Linux home server. Got a lot done and it is really a rough draft. Also looking at updating the XCA document. Long journey but still … Continue reading →

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LavenderFest 2024

Posted on July 20, 2024 by larry

This is not an annual thing but we did it three times (second time in Sequim) We left our home at 7:30 and returned about 5:30, a huge chunk of time was travel. But 7:30 departure time was right. One … Continue reading →

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Bad Day to be in IT

Posted on July 19, 2024 by larry

So there was some update for EDR software from a company called crowdstrike that messed with a bunch of Windows machines. This took down a lot of machines in the world. There are reports that this is one of the … Continue reading →

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