Category Archives: Technical

Working Hard Making Progress

Posted on December 5, 2023 by larry

I got my sample server working, all the bits are installed and most of the features are installed. So far Done and Working• DHCP• DNS• NTP• File Server (NAS Samba and NFS)• Mail Server (postfix and dovecot)• Podman(Docker)• DNS over … Continue reading →

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Purchased Second Unit

Posted on December 4, 2023 by larry

Got a second unit for testing. First thing I did was to try and test a Windows install, unfortunately I had a bad drive and wasted a bunch of time trying to get it to work. I found a good … Continue reading →

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Plans For Home Server

Posted on December 1, 2023 by larry

Need a good demo for a home server. This weekend is an ideal time to put one out. No games I am interested in on Sunday. So I will work it out. Gonna add plex and home assistant to this … Continue reading →

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New Home Server

Posted on November 30, 2023 by larry

Found this little gem of a machine at the local PC recycle store. Recall this https://www.apolonio.com/blog/?p=9356 This one is interesting, I did add a 2.5″ hard drive, but it is cool in that includes everything else I need compared to … Continue reading →

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Zoneminder Via Ansible

Posted on November 28, 2023 by larry

Mostly, I kickstart a build, then imported a a profile into the machine that included static IPs and sshd keys. Another manual thing is to add my ssh keys via ssh-copy-id command. But everything is all ansible playbooks till I … Continue reading →

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Awesome Weekend Recap

Posted on November 26, 2023 by larry

A lot of cool things happened this weekend, but wanted to put an important milestone first, not for me but my son. He ran his first timed 1/2 marathon. We left the house at 5:45AM to make it to the … Continue reading →

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Beginning of the End (of year)

Posted on November 25, 2023 by larry

With Thanksgiving behind me, it is now time to goal set for 2024, and do other end of year things. I think since it is the Saturday between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I am going to call this procurement … Continue reading →

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Black Friday 2023

Posted on November 24, 2023 by larry

Purchased some items for Black Friday and starting to do my 2024 goals. One of the things I am starting to purchase are pieces for my new 2024 zoneminder. Also getting pieces to put my backup server into a 4U … Continue reading →

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Red Hat Proper

Posted on November 22, 2023 by larry

I created myself an account on Red Hat in the Developer Network. I am going to try and install RHEL 9 and see how it works out for me. Gonna see what it takes. Weight: 346.0

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Self Inflicted Non Disaster

Posted on November 21, 2023 by larry

So last night I decided to patch my LDAP servers, big mistake, these two XKCD cartoons really define what happened So it was supposed to be a quick patch, because I was already at R9.3 But ldap didn’t start, and … Continue reading →

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