Category Archives: Technical

New Systems

Posted on September 14, 2022 by larry

New laptop for son, new server for me. So a lot to work on. Finished my son’s laptop today, Windows 11 Pro, so kind of new to me. But my HP X840 came in yesterday, started building it today. It … Continue reading →

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Son’s New Laptop

Posted on September 11, 2022 by larry

Son got a new laptop today, an HP Envy X360. Looks cools, gonna spend some time setting it up this week. First system in house that has Windows 10. Did last minute 12,000 steps, need to spread it out more … Continue reading →

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Problems With Upgrades

Posted on September 4, 2022 by larry

This was fun (NOT!). I am going on a trip tomorrow and yesterday I had the bright idea of patching some critical systems. Samba broke, so I was not able to access files, also kind of broke was authentication. Then … Continue reading →

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Starting Path On New Upgrade

Posted on September 3, 2022 by larry

Got a new ESXi 7 compatible server. It is an HP Z840 (I been going HP a lot lately) 2x Xeon e5-2609 v4 NVIDIA Quadro K620 (Can do h.264) 16 GB of RAM (Was going to upgrade anyway) No Hard … Continue reading →

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Done Early

Posted on August 27, 2022 by larry

Got my steps before noon today, so it kind of freed up my day. Went to RePC and got a case, also found a server, a Dell PowerEdge T330 Looks like it would make a great stable TrueNAS server, but … Continue reading →

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Just need 15k steps a day

Posted on August 24, 2022 by larry

I feel relieved that is all I have to do to record Half A Million steps in 30 days. But calling it good. Just 1 more week of 15000 and I am going back down to 12000. It has been … Continue reading →

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Need To Chill out

Posted on August 23, 2022 by larry

Been really pushing myself on the walks, been impacting my recovery. Went crazy today, 4 miles in one shot, then when got home wife convinced me to push harder to crack 20000 again. After my crazy walk I was 316 … Continue reading →

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OpenLDAP in my Homeserver

Posted on August 17, 2022 by larry

Looking and researching how to install openldap on Rocky Linux 9, haven’t done it before, looks like there are some differences. Hope I can figure it out and add it to my homeserver project. Walked a decent amount today, as … Continue reading →

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Figured Out Authentication

Posted on August 11, 2022 by larry

Figured out how to authenticate against AD with both PAM (ssh), samba, and apache. It took a while but finally figured it out. Was pretty tough, but felt good getting it done. Hoping to weigh in under 320 again, to … Continue reading →

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Power Surge UPS Dead

Posted on August 10, 2022 by larry

There was a power surge in my home today, two UPS gave up. Anyway, luckily I got 1 prepped, so I replaced it. Ordered batteries for the ones that failed, so by next week Friday I should have 2 more … Continue reading →

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