Category Archives: Technical

Painful Lessons

Posted on December 30, 2022 by larry

I consider my network and passwords relatively secure, it has its vulnerabilities and there is a balance between ease of use and security. Lastpass which I mentioned a few blog posts ago made it painfully obvious that cloud is not … Continue reading →

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Lastpass Pain

Posted on December 28, 2022 by larry

What a hassle, been using lastpass for couple years now (about 4 years) and found out they were hacked. So removing anything criticial and going self hosted to keypass. Working on ideas on how to improve connectivity. Anyway, good time … Continue reading →

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Annual Year End Stuff

Posted on December 26, 2022 by larry

Hitting up the year end tasks like backups, archives and goal setting. Recording what I did in past years really helps. I would like to post my public goals here soon. Still working on it though. Got a new open … Continue reading →

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Ice Storm Coming

Posted on December 22, 2022 by larry

Tomorrow there will be freezing rain in our area. New channels advise staying home if possible. I think we can huddle and stay home. May need to venture out to go shopping. It is already cold. Starting to plan next … Continue reading →

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Winter Solstice 2022

Posted on December 21, 2022 by larry

I am on a new keyboard, unintentionally. I tried cleaning my keyboard, I don’t think is it back to normal. So used to my old keyboard but it was nasty I did a full thorough cleaning, even taking out the … Continue reading →

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A Feel Organized

Posted on December 19, 2022 by larry

I think a lot of the disorder in my office was interrupting my train of thought. Now things are pretty clean, I feel like I am about to get a burst of productivity. Also testing out some new pens, yes … Continue reading →

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Office Clean

Posted on December 18, 2022 by larry

Feeling better mentally, less distraction. Office looks great. Actually rearranged some cables and moved some label printers, got some long cables. I need to accept that I need to reconfigure my workspace for whatever new tasks are at hand. Hopefully … Continue reading →

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Used Hard Drives

Posted on December 16, 2022 by larry

Found that you can get a great deal on used drives, but not sure if they are realiable. So giving it a try on a non critical server I will use to test restores. I am hoping the ZFS and … Continue reading →

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Undecomming a Box

Posted on December 15, 2022 by larry

Looks like I will be setting up a backup NAS server. Purchased Four 4TB SAS disks. We will see how that goes. Seahawks lost, so son swim in a meet for the first time. Need to do some 2023 goal … Continue reading →

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Supposed to be Decomming Boxes

Posted on December 14, 2022 by larry

So hard drives are a big expense for a NAS, but I was thinking of purchasing used SAS drives for a new NAS for testing. I will leave it off so power should not be an issue, I can power … Continue reading →

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