Category Archives: Technical

Better Mailer for Nagios

Posted on February 16, 2024 by larry

Been using the stock nagios mailer for years, changed things around and decided to use a custom python mailer. Looks like I can use environmental variables and other custom settings to add more information to the email. I am thinking … Continue reading →

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Superbowl 58

Posted on February 11, 2024 by larry

Last year I had no skin in the game, this year I was not 49ers. It was a great game, I wasn’t going to watch, but saw on social media that my old coach was TV. Lahainaluna was honorary co … Continue reading →

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Last Day of Swim

Posted on February 10, 2024 by larry

My son swam his last meet swim. This is my last time seeing him swim in High School competition. Kind of sad. He did well, his team did PR. Nice end of the season/career gift. I got my mobile home … Continue reading →

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Sunset Walk

Posted on February 9, 2024 by larry

Sunset is starting to get later and I like it Had an enjoyable walk. On a techie note, I tested out my firewall and Gig connections all around. The only thing positive was that it is faster than 1G Weight: … Continue reading →

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Don’t Touch The Mikrotik

Posted on February 5, 2024 by larry

I have no idea why Mikrotik does not have an easy way to flash back to factory. Just warning that when in Switch OS, mind your VLANs, leave the management port as is. So they will all be reserved with … Continue reading →

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Starting To Hate Mikrotik

Posted on February 4, 2024 by larry

Not sure what happened, but I can’t even boot to recovery mode. I am watching wireshark and it keeps booting but not getting. So desperate I resorted to reddit. Day started off good, got my CRV serviced, full tank of … Continue reading →

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Recap of Yesterday

Posted on February 1, 2024 by larry

It was really wild yesterday, things happened so late I did not get to put out a good post. So will recap here. In the morning I read a reddit post about misconfigured routers which is why my DNS queries … Continue reading →

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Damn TP Link

Posted on January 31, 2024 by larry

Posting late, but one of my switches went crazy. Not sure if it is crappy software or something I did, but the omada controller did something to my switch. Been working on it for an hour now. Haven’t gotten near … Continue reading →

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Getting Warm

Posted on January 29, 2024 by larry

Finally, the weather is turning warm again. I was a bit late, but I did get out there and walk this evening. Been worried though, I been having stomach problems and been going to the bathroom a lot, maybe got … Continue reading →

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Second 10G Link Up

Posted on January 28, 2024 by larry

Finally I get a link on both ends for the second link on my network. Its already fast, but need make sure there are no loops. I think there is some loop detection on some switches but non on the … Continue reading →

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