Category Archives: Technical

Surprise Storm Back From Canada

Posted on April 4, 2022 by larry

Was a fun trip from Canada, border was easy, but we were running a bit slow. But surprise when we got back there was a wind storm. Normally I would be posting about the trip, maybe tomorrow, but I will … Continue reading →

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Feeling Better

Posted on March 29, 2022 by larry

Getting better, not so bad as yesterday. Weigh gain is disturbing. But got a bunch of little things done, finally moved most of our stuff from storage Also got a high endurance 128GB SD card for my car camera. Set … Continue reading →

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Nice Rest Day

Posted on March 27, 2022 by larry

Didn’t do much today, I needed a rest day. I did get my son’s learning PC back up because he needs to do some online schooling again. When a Windows desktop been off for a while there are a lot … Continue reading →

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DNS Troubles all around

Posted on March 21, 2022 by larry

Having some weird DNS troubles, I think I will write a script to try and fix it. But seems like only DNS servers that use DoH are having problems. I suspect the clouflared connector is having problems. Sucks but maybe … Continue reading →

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Dusting Off the Blog

Posted on March 20, 2022 by larry

This is a blog I post daily, but the external blog my.apolonio.tech needed some love. So I will be focusing a bit of my time developing that site. So apologizing in advance for not having deep content on this blog. … Continue reading →

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STEP-CA not so bad

Posted on March 16, 2022 by larry

I am still on the fence with step-ca, installation is easy, here it is with Rocky or CentOS wget https://dl.step.sm/gh-release/cli/gh-release-header/v0.18.2/step-cli_0.18.2_amd64.rpm wget https://dl.step.sm/gh-release/certificates/gh-release-header/v0.18.2/step-ca_linux_0.18.2_amd64.tar.gz yum -y install step-cli_0.18.2_amd64.rpm tar zxvf step-ca_linux_0.18.2_amd64.tar.gz mkdir bin cp -p step-ca_0.18.2/bin/step-ca ~/bin step version step-ca version Done, … Continue reading →

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Learning Step CA

Posted on March 15, 2022 by larry

Need to learn another CA utility. First I learned Microsoft, then OpenSSL, then XCA, now want to learn STEP CA. At least I am one up and know Certs, the concepts, and what it takes. Need to document this new … Continue reading →

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USB Boot Media

Posted on March 14, 2022 by larry

I have used Flash Drive based boot media for my Linux box. But when I started using and SSD drive instead, my builds and boot times were much faster. Setting up this post to show someone that asks what I … Continue reading →

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No Workout Today

Posted on March 9, 2022 by larry

I tried to schedule a workout today, then I noticed the slots were full, I would not be able to work out today. Maybe tomorrow there will be an opening so I can work out. Starting to look at setting … Continue reading →

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Struggling with Lab

Posted on March 1, 2022 by larry

Came across a few challenges today with the lab. Seems like DNS is flaky, frustrating, should be working fine. I am trying to do some tricky stuff, the adventure is new so all is good. Also weight is heaviest I … Continue reading →

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