Category Archives: Technical

Website Back To Normal

Posted on September 9, 2023 by larry

Mental note to self, don’t make changes close to midnight if you didn’t post your blog. Although I got it done and was able to post before midnight, there was a lot of meat missing from my post. Actually rebuild … Continue reading →

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Something Went Amiss

Posted on September 8, 2023 by larry

Not sure what I screwed up, but I changed my WordPress setting to a temp site. So doing a really quick post. Cause it is almost midnight. Stuff is complex. Thought wordpress would be easy, well is is easy to … Continue reading →

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New Habits

Posted on September 6, 2023 by larry

Need to adopt so new habits, First one, if something is down on the network and is needed, but some sort of monitor that alerts on it, normally nagios, but it can be something else like home assistant. Second one, … Continue reading →

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The End Is Near

Posted on September 5, 2023 by larry

For this website any, not the blog though. In a few days you will see a remake of the main parts of this website. Part of the push to get rid of C7 boxes. One of the things I am … Continue reading →

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Fixed One Thing and Another Broke

Posted on September 4, 2023 by larry

Fixed the fridge today and then the Kitchen Fridge broke. Hoping the fridge is an easy fix. Only a few years old The old fridge lasted over a decade. Tomorrow will see if the freezer holds its cold. Today was … Continue reading →

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Three Day Weekend Needed

Posted on September 3, 2023 by larry

Just got 2 days of a three day weekend out of the way, I am happy that I also got Monday off. Getting my lab rolling, tomorrow hopefully more breakthroughs. But I am having a problem with MATE and guacamole, … Continue reading →

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Been Tired All Day

Posted on September 2, 2023 by larry

One of those times sleep catches up with you. I been so tired today, napped couple of times. I did get a lot done, figured a way to reimage the nodes on the lab. Create a new guacamole server, also … Continue reading →

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LDAP Server On Rocky 9

Posted on September 1, 2023 by larry

Getting good with ansible. But finding I need to get an LDAP server outside my the secure area of my network. For others that connect to the lab. Now I need to figure out how to authenticate with guacamole. Weight: … Continue reading →

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Exciting Times

Posted on August 31, 2023 by larry

Had a long day of work last night, ending at 3AM, but I got a lot of stuff done. At home, ansible is doing me right. My son is ready to start XC, 1 more week till his first meet. … Continue reading →

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Lab Rebuild

Posted on August 30, 2023 by larry

This evening I decided to rebuild/reconstitute the lab. Now that I retired an ESXi host, I think I got space to continue with the lab. Got all these little things to set up. Patching, nagios, guacamole, proxies etc. Weight: 347.0

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