Category Archives: Technical

Merry Christmas 2023

Posted on December 25, 2023 by larry

This was a good Christmas Season, house was decorated more nicely. We had a good time, I got a poster I have been trying to get for a while now, I finally got to hang one in my office. Got … Continue reading →

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Weird Kickstart USB

Posted on December 23, 2023 by larry

I had an old Rocky 8 kickstart which I modified to also install Rocky 9 But after I installed then booted it spewed a bunch of errors started spewing some errors. I kickstarted on other media similar install and it … Continue reading →

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Flyer Posted

Posted on December 13, 2023 by larry

Here it is https://my.apolonio.tech/?p=240 Pretty long document, so I will not hash it out too much. Been a good day though, got a lot of good work done, going through homeserver kickstart. Weight: 349.2

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Home Server Flyer Document

Posted on December 12, 2023 by larry

Finally got most of the document for a flyer/brochure on using the M900 Lenovo. Feels like a huge load off my back. Not only I have something for marketing, but a base for my book. Finally, 3 days in a … Continue reading →

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Almost Showroom Quality

Posted on December 11, 2023 by larry

Not ready to show off my new desk yet, but got a lot done. I was able to cable up some of the things, and it looks OK. One more day under 350 and I am buck under 350. Weight: … Continue reading →

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Desktop Setup Change

Posted on December 10, 2023 by larry

I worked for hours cleaning and redoing cables in my setup. Instead of 3 across monitors and an extra monitor, I am doing 4,4 with the 4th being a vesa mountable monitor that connects from the KVM. So the 4th … Continue reading →

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Guacamole On Home Server

Posted on December 7, 2023 by larry

Added one final bonus app, and I got openvpn to work. Got guacamole on there. With tomcat. Now I am just getting more accurate nagios and cleaning up things to make it a good example. It is done though. Accepting … Continue reading →

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Oh so close

Posted on December 6, 2023 by larry

Almost got all of my major objectives done, to recap here is the list. To recap these were the goals • DHCP• DNS• NTP• File Server (NAS Samba and NFS)• Mail Server (postfix and dovecot)• Podman(Docker)• DNS over HTTPS• TFTP• … Continue reading →

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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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